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Tips to Open a Successful Coffee Shop with Low Budget

Tips to Start a Successful Coffee Shop with Low Budget

There are hundreds café running just in a province alone, and new shops are lining up for the right time to be opened before the end of the year. These huge numbers keep growing each year and it doesn’t show any signs of falling any moment now. The specialty in coffee business has been proven to be very unique and attracts coffee lovers to invest huge amount of their assets on it. You read on this page means you have the same interest, even the slightest one.

You’re free to have the idea of having your own café in the midst of busiest city or even opening one right across a calm river. You can search as many as tips and tricks cross your mind, you will also read some very soon. People tend to be busy on answering the ‘How’ questions in opening a fine coffee shop and search as many as tricks widely available online. And it makes the idea of having one is getting thin and opaque as time goes by which will make the business meaningless before it eventually dies down.

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Here’s the fact you have to know. Coffee lovers are people who have the need to deal with something they feel familiar with and more likely to feel like home at their favorite café. Of course you need the technical steps, but before all of that, dig deeper as to why do you want to start a coffee business. If you want to have a coffee shop just to get as much profit as possible, you’ll get very tired pretty soon and the customers who are actually real people would eventually feel it. And you will go down before you realize it.

Being able to answer the ‘why’ question by yourself, then you will also be able to find the answer for the ‘how’. Do you want to open a successful café with low budget? I won’t give you some instruction steps whatsoever since you’re not a robot. You’re a person with very high brainpower who will be able to connect some jumbled puzzle. Do yourself a favor, open up your mind and let it broadened as it wishes, then give yourself as specific answer as possible for these:

©    Why do you want to open a coffee shop?

Opening a coffee shop means having a solid reason to help you determine what you actually want to achieve and motivate yourself to keep going no matter what. It’s just like having relationship goals with your lover, really, only it’s coffee business in this case. So before anything else to think about, make it as the top priority to be your main grip. Competitors are real and customers are free to choose, it’s very possible for any businessmen to giving up even before the real deal. Make sure your solid reason is strong enough to hold on to and keep you in track.


©    Is it the one for you?

You will need to be passionate about coffee and the business, it’s utterly inseparable. You can’t be successful coffee businessman if you have no any passion for coffee and just simply following others. Loving means you will not giving up very easily when it gets harder in the middle. When you succeed to answer this question, you will find whether it is worth to fight or the other way around. So, is coffee business is actually the one for you?

©    Are you being totally commit to it?

Starting is always being the hardest part of all, coffee business is no exception. Committing yourself into something is like being engaged to someone. You will need to be focus on it since it will take most of your time, tied yourself very tightly if you have to so you won’t give even a glance to other businesses out there. Identify its aspects into very tiny details, learn all about coffee; its histories, its origin, its special characters, its taste in every sip, its process from fresh beans until it becomes a ready-to-served coffee, its business development around the world do as many research as possible), etc. Be the pro barista yourself for a starter, perhaps, you need to learn how to make an unforgettable coffee and adored by the customer.

©    What’s your vision?

Being able to determine your solid reason in having coffee business will lead you to create your own visions to be achieved and missions to be accomplished. It will lead you to a very specific goal of where the business is going. It also leads you into more details such as capitalized your strength and narrow your target client.  You can sell coffee with a fine sandwich for example, but you can’t sell coffee and alcohol at a time. The specific menu leads you to specific target of client. Be as specific as possible with goods you want to sell but make sure you nailed it well like a pro.

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©    Would you love to take care of others?

Having business means you will have to deal with others every time. The smallest case will be taking care of the employees you hire from the customer service, barista, accountant, manager, even the advisor. The largest case will be your regular customer, the passer by, or even the new customer. Be a nice observer and listen to their every need with all your heart, for they’re the main factor who will drive your business growing bigger and better. A simple friendly chat will make customer loyal and keep coming back for more. A little attention will make them feel accepted and home. Robotic mode of café is not worth coming back.

©    What makes you different?

Being different means you have certain unique factors people looking for. You wouldn’t want customer sees you as good as other cafés, you’d love to hear customer talk about the ‘X factor’ of your café such as:
  1. Create a unique brand
  2. Create a motto represents your café vision
  3. Find your menu specialties
  4. Bring your imagination into your dream space
  5. Spread a comforting atmosphere onto the air
  6. Consistent in making special blend people would remember

©   Are you being reasonable?

Loving something blindly will lead you to nothing but self-destruction. You can listen to others as much as you want for references, but you need to be reasonable in every decision you make and considering all aspects very carefully.

  1. Be reasonable in building the café.
  2. Start from a tiny café would be very reasonable and acceptable at low budget. And yet, you really need to consider finding a reasonable location for perfect market. Choose reasonable furniture yourself which represents the café’s motto. Make sure you search for reasonable equipments (but not the most expensive ones).

  3. Be reasonable in hiring employees.
  4. Interview the employees thoroughly for ones who knows what they’re doing, what they want, professional, considerate, and sensitive (not too much, though).

  5. Be reasonable in marketing.
  6. You will need to do a lot of research, take some surveys, spread lots of flyers, converse with the expertise, make lots of friends, or even hiring the professional.

  7. Be reasonable in pricing.
  8. Investing your asset into good coffee machine, it will make your business last long and you don’t need to put monthly budget for reparation. Count every aspect into details:

    • Place rent: 15% of projected sales
    • Coffee shop equipment (a top-of-line espresso machine, grinder, blender, refrigerator,etc)
    • Drink and food ingredients: 40% of projected sales.
    • Professional fees (architect, accountant, consultant, attorney)
    • Payroll (wages, benefits, taxes, worker compensation): 35% of projected sales
    • Income taxes: 35% of operating profits.
    • Other expenses: insurance, supplies, license, advertising, utilities, maintenance, etc.
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