An inauspicious beginning 

I think the people involved with Café Felix are engaged in an art form in which, like Bergman, they comment on the ills of society by means of symbolism. Specifically, the café symbolizes a typical Ann Arbor high tech company. See, you got your extremely expensive physical plant, your great downtown location, your mundane product concept ("I know! Let's open a cafe!"), a striking lack of paying customers, your staff of eighteen year olds left to run the place while the execs run around doing -- what? Where are the adults at Felix, anyway? There have to be some; high school students usually can't raise that kind of money. But on all my visits, the place has been basically devoid of real customers -- just the friends of the staff and me, all by ourselves in that big, shining space.