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Thanks John. . . we are looking at a few different options for a building, one place seems TOO big, but the others seem a touch too small.

We are looking to open a business in our little town and would like to sell snowcones in the summer and coffee/espresso drinks year around. In addition we would like to sell some dressed up premade desserts (slices of cheesecake with sauce added, slices of pound cake with fresh strawberries and...

I saw this thread a while back and although I'm not a big fan of the idea of sales and discounts I keep gravitating to this thread. I'm thinking I might be able to talk the highschool art teacher into having the honors art students make me a bunch of ceramic coffee coins and then they could...

Any of you have a one stop shopping you use for most your inventory that doesn't have a short shelf life? I ran across Barista Pro Shop today and they looked pretty good. Are all the wholesale suppliers about the same? Is there much difference in the different smoothie and frappe mixes...

Well I talked to a person that works for Crimson Cup and pretty sure it is not for me. I'm updating on here in case anyone else is interested but it sounded like you end up paying them around $30,000 (amount varies depending on what you are setting up I only heard one number but I know he had...

Weekday mornings for 4 hours and after school hours and evenings not yet determined- for sure weekend afternoon/evenings. I know that sounds crazy to someone living in the city but it is very normal in these small towns for stores and restaurants to have hours like that. If it paid to be open...

yeah, have you?

caffinatechicago- the closest coffeeshop is a little over 30 minutes away in a town of 7000. I think its been there for a while. Not sure how much profit it is making but its staying afloat dispite paying 1300 a month in rent from what I hear. I know that town probably averages a little bit...

yeah, thus I'm here seeing if anyone on here as any actual experience with them. I guess I should just look up a few of their locations and see if I can get a hold of an owner that can share if they are happy with their decision to use them or regret it. They've been around for 20 years I...

Any chance a machine like this could serve the needs of a very small coffee/smoothie shop? Found a fairly new one for under $400.

I heard about them from a non-coffeeshop owner who told me they knew someone who used crimson cup to start their coffee shop and I should look into it. I looked them up on this site and all I found was a long thread accusing people (who did look suspicious) of spamming the site to promote...

Manikins??? LOL. We were planning on having a few computer stations set up for people to check their email/facebook/etc. The building also already has a couple big televisions up so we can show the morning news to the morning crowd. We would make the screens double as computer monitors and...

OldSalt, thanks for the encouragement. I'm going to a free workshop later this week on starting up your own business through the community college and SBA.gov. They said after I take that class I can get some free one on one business counseling if I want to keep pursuing this. Judging from...

Yeah I see what you are saying about getting the numbers. I obviously am not interested in this for the money. . . I love my little small town and would love to see a little coffee/smoothie shop in it. I think I need to find out about how many customers the subway, DQ, and gas station get in...

ElPug- because you don't think it would be worth the little to no income you would make or because you think you would lose income?

Harley- I don't have any specialty coffee experience either. I definitely would need at least a little bit of training. Although as someone else pointed out people in small rural towns like I live in are still used to Foldgers. . . I think with just a little bit of training and some decent...

Thanks Mr.Shave I appreciate that!

Fausto I'm pretty sure you are right and we don't have a strong need for specialty coffee. There is only one place in our town that you can run in and get a cup of coffee- the gas station. It is BUSY in the morning. They sell more coffee and warmed up frozen breakfast sandwiches than gas. I...

I'm thinking the place I'm looking at has a pretty small bar/kitchen area and I was wondering how small a space you were planning on working with.

Mr Shave I'm curious how big is the back of your truck? I assume this will be a one man operation?

The place has a large cooler, mini fridge, full size fridge, another full size display case type fridge, one vitamix blender, cash register, tables and chairs already included in the price. This was a fully equipped bar and he is including all his supplies and inventory in the price. I don't...

Thanks for your insight guys! Initial costs are 15,000-20,000 to finish the upstairs plus the cost of coffee equipment which I'm guessing is another 10-15,000. There is a chance the guy would trade properties with us and also give us 10,000-15,000 cash to finish the upstairs. If that were the...

I may be able to obtain a building that has an apartment above it and a very nice bar that could be converted to a coffee shop below. The building is on a corner on mainstreet. Ideally we would finish the apartment upstairs and move into the building and the mortgage payment wouldn't be...