Venice cafe owned by Love Island Bombshell contestant sees huge customer spike with watch parties and night markets

Gal’s girls turned out in force for a watch party celebrating the hottest reality show of the summer: “Love Island USA.”While the Season 8 Islanders and late-arriving “bombshells” remain cut off from the outside world in a Fiji villa with no phones or social media, one Venice, California, café is cashing in on the frenzy.Saba Surf Cafe, owned by Season 8 contestant Gal Tshnieder, drew more than 100 “Love Island USA” fans who lined up for coffee, merch and a communal viewing of the hit dating series, with lines stretching out the door.“I’m super excited to be here.I’d heard about the coffee shop before because I have a few friends that live in the area and I’ve been meaning to come down here and check it out,” Claire Belhamer, who made the hour-long trek all the way from Pasadena, told The California Post.

“And as soon as I watched the show and heard Gal describe it, I knew exactly what coffee shop it was, and I saw that they had watch parties.”For those not in the know, the reality dating competition follows single “Islanders” living in an isolated, luxurious villa to find romance.To stay on the show, contestants must “couple up,” surviving regular recouplings and bombshell arrivals before winning a cash prize of up to $100,000 based on public votes.

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Tshnieder, or as America knows him, Gal, entered the villa as one of the temptations for the girls.“I definitely started watching Love Island, saw Gal on there, and looked up the coffee shop and was like, that’s 15 minutes from my place.I should go check it out,” Rachael Chang said.

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