Why 'Night Cafe' only clicks in CDO?

The success of the Night Cafe is Cagayan de Oro is phenomenal. Night Cafe program was one of the bright points of CDO Mayor Vicente Emano. He was the architect of this project way back in 2002. Its been a success ever since though the project is not without its critics. A more objective view is that the the Night Cafe has made a signature of Cagayan de Oro.

Now other cities are trying to replicate the Night Cafe. Many tried, but may failed. The big problem is peace and order. With such a huge crowd who are drinking beer and liquor, it is a police nightmare because drunks can go wild and spark trouble to others. Not a few incident where the attempted copying of Night Cafe resulted to ramble and stabbing among the patrons and even by standers.

Now why is that? The answer is that an activity like Night Cafe ONLY CLICKS in a place like Cagayan de Oro. The question, is there a place which is like Cagayan de Oro? None.

One has to be a City of Golden Friendship before it can launch a project like Night Cafe. The success of the Night Cafe is partly due to its people. Cagayan de Oro is gifted with warm people who think that they belong to one community. Cagayanons natural congeniality makes the Night Cafe as safer place to be in. People can control themselves because their minds are predispose to trouble unless there is an intentional provocation. People who are not predispose to finding trouble fun in their minds instead of seeking fights at the slightest causes.

This strong sense of community rubbed on visitors. “When you are in Cagayan de Oro, think and act like a Cagayanon.” As if they are transported in another plane where people seems to know each other for a long time.

Before anyone would try to copy Night Cafe, but failed, this could be the answer why it failed.