When the weather is fine ☀️

Monday to Friday from 14:00
Saturday and Sunday from 11:00

(1 hour before the start of events)

In summer there's fried food to fill your belly and sparkling aperitifs to quench your thirst, and in winter there's soup and warming drinks and sometimes dinner.

You can also borrow boules balls or ping-pong rackets, roll around in the sandpit, water the plants or mop the pitch. Come around!

Tables can be reserved for groups of 8 people or more.
Mail to: reservation@park-platz.org

We prefer cash at Parki. Why?

Card and twint payments are increasingly becoming the new normal and there are fewer and fewer places where you can pay with cash.

We find this development problematic. There are people who cannot have a bank account in Switzerland: Asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, people with no fixed abode or those affected by poverty in precarious living situations. These people will be even more excluded from social life as a result of this development.

Restricting cash transactions also means that our payments and therefore our movement profile can be more easily controlled and monitored. With every payment we make, we leave behind electronic footprints that can be used to track our (consumer) behavior.

Not least, with every electronic payment we help a financial service provider to make more profit. Companies such as Twint and Visa want to make cash payments seem inconvenient in order to promote their alternatives. The result: high profits for financial service providers, fewer and fewer opportunities to pay in cash and more and more exclusion of precarious people. We don't want that.

PS: Thanks Totalbar for the inspiration.

At Parki, we prefer cash. Why?

Card and twint payments are becoming the new standard and there are fewer and fewer places where you can pay with cash.

This development is problematic. There are people who cannot have a bank account in Switzerland: Asylum seekers, Sans-Papiers, people without a permanent residence, people affected by poverty in precarious situations. These people are increasingly excluded from social life as a result of this development.

The restriction of cash transactions also means that our payments and thus our movement profile can be more easily controlled and monitored. With every payment, we leave behind electronic footprints that can be used to track our (consumer) behavior.

In addition, with every electronic payment we help a financial service provider to make more profit. Companies like Twint or Visa want to make cash payments seem inconvenient in order to promote their alternatives. The result: high profits for financial service providers, fewer and fewer opportunities to pay with cash, more and more exclusion of precarious people. We don't want that.

PS: Thanks Totalbar for the inspiration.