He's A Good Tipper, But Can He Type?He's A Good Tipper, But Can He Type?

President Bush will have a little more public exposure than he might have expected while vacationing at his home outside tiny Crawford, Texas.

The town's one restaurant, The Coffee Station, Tuesday will add a cyber caf?, complete with chat technology from LivePerson that enables outsiders to "talk" with the locals in real time. Owners Nancy and Kirk Baird say the president, who's spending the month at his 1,600-acre property near Crawford, hasn't actually agreed to take calls from his fellow Americans yet. But even if he doesn't, callers can get the dish from the town's 631 residents--including 19-year-old waitress Amber Davis, who served the president lunch the other day.

Crawford mayor Robert Campbell will take the first cyber-chat calls on Tuesday, along with LivePerson CEO Robert Locascio and the Bairds. Restaurant staff will keep the chat line manned when business is slow, and ask diners to chip in with some chat between bites of chow. Outsiders can call in through the company Web site, at www.liveperson.com.

LivePerson has waived the usual $89.50-a-month base price in return for the chance to share the technology with the president. "Hopefully he'll come by and get another burger, and take a few questions from his fellow Americans," says Locascio, whose company provides real-time customer support systems to more than 250,000 Web sites. "That would be awesome."