Mona, the AI running a Stockholm café, still can’t turn a profit
The Andon Café is pictured in Stockholm on April 27, 2026. It looks like any other coffee shop, but this Stockholm cafe is entirely run by an AI chatbot - with a human barista following orders. Andon Labs, the company behind the experiment gave a lease to Mona the AI chat bot running on Google's AI assistant Gemini, and she did the rest: hiring employees, made the menu and takes care of daily supplies, with some hiccups on the way, ordering 6000 napkins for instance. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP via Getty Images
ByCamille Tuutti,
Freelance Tech Writer
November 12, 2026 03:15 PM ET
Most days, the café logs fewer than 10 purchases, and on many of them, Mona’s token costs match or exceed that day’s revenue.
In June, I wrote about Mona, the AI agent Andon Labs put in charge of a café in Stockholm...
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