Randy
New member
Hello everyone! My post below is a reply I sent to Mr. Shave a few minutes ago. It seemed appropriate to introduce myself now that I have posted a couple of times. This is a great forum and I'm looking forward to learning a lot and hopefully helping some people out as well. I plan on serving high quality coffee and teas (5-10 selections of each) and small coffee snacks. Pao de Queijo (brazilian cheese bread) being the main snack.
A little background on me, I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps., a few years in banking, and 5 years in sales. I'm finishing my degree in Accounting in May and about a month ago (yes I'm a fresh newbie lol) I decided to start running numbers on a coffee shop. I prefer business settings and working morning and lunch crowds so the spot I'm researching is Downtown. Basically there is a 7 mile tunnel network under downtown with restaurants, shops, you name it. It's open Monday - Friday roughly 7 am - 6 pm. There are a few Seattle's Best and Starbucks but no independent high quality coffee and tea shops. The part I've started negotiations for a space in claims roughly 3,500 pedestrians every lunch day but I obviously need to verify counts and see what the heavy hitters are doing. Due to heavy heavy renovations I wouldn't be able to move in until November but that gives me plenty of time to get counts, research roasters, get training myself, and hire a top notch barista with 5 years experience so my clients get 1st class from day one. I plan on working the shop everyday as well but I won't pretend to know everything about daily operations and will more than gladly pay for it so I can learn and my clients can benefit. I have a million and one questions like most people on here but I'm first pulling together my research, checking topics that have already been posted, and trying to get a general idea of whats out there before I become "that guy" that asks something that has been posted 1,000 times. I have quotes en route from a few roasters as well as ball park figures for rent so once I compile all of that I plan on posting on a regular basis as kind of a living journal during this journey.
A little background on me, I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps., a few years in banking, and 5 years in sales. I'm finishing my degree in Accounting in May and about a month ago (yes I'm a fresh newbie lol) I decided to start running numbers on a coffee shop. I prefer business settings and working morning and lunch crowds so the spot I'm researching is Downtown. Basically there is a 7 mile tunnel network under downtown with restaurants, shops, you name it. It's open Monday - Friday roughly 7 am - 6 pm. There are a few Seattle's Best and Starbucks but no independent high quality coffee and tea shops. The part I've started negotiations for a space in claims roughly 3,500 pedestrians every lunch day but I obviously need to verify counts and see what the heavy hitters are doing. Due to heavy heavy renovations I wouldn't be able to move in until November but that gives me plenty of time to get counts, research roasters, get training myself, and hire a top notch barista with 5 years experience so my clients get 1st class from day one. I plan on working the shop everyday as well but I won't pretend to know everything about daily operations and will more than gladly pay for it so I can learn and my clients can benefit. I have a million and one questions like most people on here but I'm first pulling together my research, checking topics that have already been posted, and trying to get a general idea of whats out there before I become "that guy" that asks something that has been posted 1,000 times. I have quotes en route from a few roasters as well as ball park figures for rent so once I compile all of that I plan on posting on a regular basis as kind of a living journal during this journey.
