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I've been unemployed since January and am trying to figure out my next career move. I have a lead on a spot in a lovely part of town for $900/mo and figure it'll cost me about $20,000 all in to get the place open, which is about 90% of the savings I have left. It's near a busy intersection and an office park so there is plenty of vehicle traffic. If I can do even 200 drinks/day (just 25/hr assuming I'm open from 5-2) it'd take care of all my bills and then some. Also there is no need for a vent hood. What say you goons.?
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Dec 11, 2019 05:21
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Just do it and be a legend, goonsir
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Dec 11, 2019 05:26
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hotdog stand do it and do it right
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Dec 11, 2019 05:27
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25 hr is 1 every 2 minutes you'd have to really hustle
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Dec 11, 2019 05:29
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Depends... is it lovely lovely or the kind of lovely where it's actively being colonized by hipsters? Hipsters loving love coffee.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:30
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also i know a dude who owns like the entire town's racket of those lovely toy capsule machines. like the ones with the sticky hands or temporary tattoos you see at the grocery store. he only has to work every other Saturday, driving around collecting money, and refilling them with crap if they're low. he makes more than I do. you could look into that.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:36
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Sjs00 posted:25 hr is 1 every 2 minutes you'd have to really hustle My guess is during peak time half of all sales would be drip which only takes 30 seconds to pour and maybe 30 seconds to run the card/make change. The area has gotten a decent amount of new development in the last year or so, next nearest coffee shop is a Starbucks 5 miles away and nearest hipster joint is 10+ miles out.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:37
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Tom Gorman posted:also i know a dude who owns like the entire town's racket of those lovely toy capsule machines. like the ones with the sticky hands or temporary tattoos you see at the grocery store. I think I saw a vice documentary on your friend.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:38
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how do you take your coffee? what kind of coffees are you gonna sell
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Dec 11, 2019 05:39
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Do you have suppliers lined up and have you ever worked in a coffee shop before? I feel like if you want to dump money into the hellpit that is the food industry you should just start a food truck and zoop around all the construction sites, less overhead and you can adjust your route when you find pockets of hungry students or whatever
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Dec 11, 2019 05:39
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Make it one of those beefcake coffee shops where young studs wearing banana hammocks make your coffee and if you tip them a fiver they’ll rub their nuts on the cup lid
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Dec 11, 2019 05:40
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If you nail good coffee + low price it could be a really solid idea. Maybe give locals a limited discount (like cheaper drip during the morning hours) to build some goodwill with your neighbors.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:41
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only hire greasy twinks
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Dec 11, 2019 05:41
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blatman posted:Do you have suppliers lined up and have you ever worked in a coffee shop before? A functional food truck is $75,000, OP only has enough money to put a Keurig in one of those $800 garden sheds that are always sitting in front of Home Depot.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:42
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I like black coffee, flat whites sometimes and an iced oat milk and honey latte during the summer.blatman posted:Do you have suppliers lined up and have you ever worked in a coffee shop before? I worked at a pizza place for 6 months in High school.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:44
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Fair enough I just assumed that someone planning on starting a non-mobile brick and mortar business in the most cutthroat industry possible could at least convert the mystery machine into a grub wagon what the hell is flat white iced oat milk
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Dec 11, 2019 05:45
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Dpending on the city, but if you open near me I'll stop by and do daily rants tell stories on my ol' pal Clint and his strange sexual ways.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:46
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blatman posted:Fair enough I just assumed that someone planning on starting a non-mobile brick and mortar business in the most cutthroat industry possible could at least convert the mystery machine into a grub wagon Flat white: Velvet foam/milk on espresso, small volume drjnk. Iced oat milk and honey latte; espresso over iced oat milk with honey syrup.
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Dec 11, 2019 05:53
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It is the age of Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks apps to get points for buying their products to one day get a free hot coffee or some poo poo. Hell, I was considering a Qdoba burrito the other day because they are giving me a free soft drink for this month.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:00
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Kinda depends on the city. What’s the weather like? What do you mean by lovely? What the demographic in the area? Would it support being a hipster shop or are you gonna angle for the cheap side?
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Dec 11, 2019 06:01
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Make really good hash browns to go with the coffee. REALLY good hash browns
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Dec 11, 2019 06:03
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poo poo OP, you need to let us know how lovely we are talking about here. Some lovely parts of some towns aren't so bad. Others you'll probably have some shitheads breaking in every night to get some of them beans.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:08
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Also, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to try to get some business partners and investors instead of throwing all of your unemployment money in a paper shredder.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:14
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Actually nm about the hash browns. Make loving bone marrow (its real easy to cook) and put that poo poo on toast and serve with coffee.  Call your shop BONER COFFEE
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Dec 11, 2019 06:15
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You need a gimmick. Print porno pictures from the internet and give them to random customers with their coffee. I'd definitely frequent any business where there was a, say, 20% chance of walking out with a naughty picture
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Dec 11, 2019 06:31
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Make it a zoo cafe so people can pet a baby giraffe while they eat a burrito.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:32
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Good luck on your gentrification attempt, OP.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:34
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Shamino posted:I like black coffee, flat whites sometimes and an iced oat milk and honey latte during the summer. Yeah, but what are they going to do to you when you go out of business before having satisfied your 2 year deal with them? Mr. Dick bets they stick a tube in your forehead and use the heat and force of your escaping soul to steam milk.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:34
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Hang a gay pride flag out in front of your coffee shop and watch property values in your neighborhood skyrocket.
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Dec 11, 2019 06:42
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Don't open a cafe. It is a huge money sink. Unless you want to be there 24/7 don't do it.
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Dec 11, 2019 07:03
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Shamino posted:about $20,000 all in to get the place open, which is about 90% of the savings I have left if you search coffee in google maps is there a void around that area? diner, deli, convenience store maybe you should make it credit(/debit) only so you dont have to ever worry about being robbed (since the area is lovely enough that you put it in the thread title). would it count as trendy if you only accepted fastpass or whatever the current thing is now? mainly and i cannot stress this enough: do you have any idea at all what a good cup of coffee tastes like because most people have no clue even to the extent of taking pride in their lovely coffee or even thinking they could open their own coffee shop. *looks at op suspiciously*
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Dec 11, 2019 07:20
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Shamino posted:Iced oat milk and honey latte; espresso over iced oat milk with honey syrup.
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Dec 11, 2019 07:22
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No.
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Dec 11, 2019 07:51
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Most businesses have to operate at a loss for their first few months or even years. If opening the business is going to eat 90% of your savings off the bat, it might be a bad idea. Sorry OP.
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Dec 11, 2019 07:55
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Fleetwood Crack posted:Most businesses have to operate at a loss for their first few months or even years. If opening the business is going to eat 90% of your savings off the bat, it might be a bad idea. Sorry OP. don’t listen to this person, live your “sad attempt at escaping the ever-shrinking middle class through capital investment in a wild plan” dream
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Dec 11, 2019 08:01
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invest in weed stocks
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Dec 11, 2019 08:03
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Shamino posted:I've been unemployed since January and am trying to figure out my next career move. I have a lead on a spot in a lovely part of town for $900/mo and figure it'll cost me about $20,000 all in to get the place open, which is about 90% of the savings I have left. It's near a busy intersection and an office park so there is plenty of vehicle traffic. If I can do even 200 drinks/day (just 25/hr assuming I'm open from 5-2) it'd take care of all my bills and then some. since you're unemployed anyway, you might want to try and estimate how much traffic goes by the location on a typical day. So like sit out front with a clipboard and count how many cars pass every hour, what the foot traffic is like, etc. This might help give you some idea how realistic your goal of 25 customers an hour is
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Dec 11, 2019 08:18
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Generally you don't want to be the first hipster in the neighborhood. You need to wait until there is a critical hipster mass then open a coffee shop and charge $20 for a cup of drip coffee you secretly buy in bulk from Costco.
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Dec 11, 2019 08:23
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All ya gotta do is learn how to make goodass donuts. And I mean loving good. Like really loving good.
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Dec 11, 2019 08:28
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listen if you have $20,000 i can turn that into $5000 easy and save you the time of opening a small business and im going to have a hell of a party
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