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Starting a Coffee Shop – To Franchise Or Not?
So you are starting a coffee shop and working on your coffee shop business plan. You are thinking: ‘maybe buying a coffee shop franchise would work better because I am not sure how to go about this coffee shop start up.’ Or maybe you are thinking ‘I can get operational support after I open that [...]
Coffee Franchise Opportunities
With Americans trying to squeeze more activities into their days than ever before, sales for caffeine based products are soaring. Coffee is the number two commodity in the USA. This makes coffee franchise opportunities highly lucrative self-owned businesses. Here are some of the most popular choices:
1.) Starbucks Coffee – I doubt this company needs an [...]
How to Set Up a Franchised Coffee Shop Operation
Starbucks opened its first shop in 1971, with a total investment of $20,000 (approximately the price of a nice house), and today it is a multi million dollar company. So, should you start your own coffee shop franchise operation?
Well, before I answer that, let me ask you a question. When you spend a day shopping, [...]
What Do I Need to Know Before I Start a Coffee Shop?
Before you start a coffee shop you need to have a solid understanding of how this type of business operates. You may have a vision of people coming in all day long to get their favorite drinks. Yet that may not be what happens if you rush into things without a solid plan of action. [...]
Do Your Research Before You Start a Coffee Shop
Many individuals that have thought about being able to start a coffee shop have stopped in their tracks. With recent news about the big coffee chain Starbucks closing down hundreds of stores around the country, people worry that it may not be the right type of business to get involved in. However, there is still [...]
Deciding Between an Independent Or Franchise Coffee Shop Business
If opening and operating a coffee shop is in your plans, knowing what your options are can help to make your new business a success, as well as saving you money. Although a coffee shop franchise is generally what people have in mind when they think about starting up their own business, there is an [...]
Keep Business Operations and Logistics Simple, Streamlined and Agile
Most of the entrepreneurs we interview in our consulting business have a very unrealistic conception of what excites and disappoints investors. The dream of many inexperienced inventors seeking to fund their opportunity is to build a substantial infrastructure. Their business plan identifies the need for factory space, equipment, staff, and many other fixed costs.
Investors want [...]
7 Top Tips For Running a Happy Coffee Shop
As a successful businessman with many years experience of running a shop fitting company and setting up and running coffee shops, Don Clarke learnt many valuable lessons in how to get the best from his staff.
Don quickly realized something that was contradictory to accepted beliefs: the customer does not come first – your staff should [...]
7 Tips to Maintaining Profits and Keeping Your Coffee Shop Customers
With rising prices, and talk of the “credit crunch” wherever you go, what advice can I give coffee shop owners with regard to maintaining your profit margins without losing customers?
1. First, it is essential that you pass on the price rises to your customers. Your suppliers are passing on their higher costs [...]
Setting Up A Coffee Shop
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world.
When you walk past a coffee shop the aroma is very tempting and can lure you inside. Setting up the atmosphere to attract the customers from outside is an important start to the process of getting a successful and rewarding business.
Planning
Having a good business plan [...]
