ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Wednesday, November 13, 1996           TAG: 9611130083
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: B-5  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES

APPLE PLANS `CYBERCAFES'

Apple Computer Inc. announced Tuesday what it hopes will be a chain of restaurants where customers can rove the Internet and play video games while sipping cappuccino.

Plans for the Los Angeles Apple Cafe were unveiled Tuesday. Apple hopes for future sites in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney, Australia.

Unlike most ``cybercafes'' that provide Internet hookups and coffee, an Apple Cafe will offer videoconferencing, CD-ROM games at every table and a full menu, company officials said. They also will sell Macintosh software and rent private, members-only rooms. A percentage of membership fees will go to the Artists Rights Foundation, a nonprofit organization that preserves the work of film and television artists in its original form.

-Associated Press

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