Re: Automatic or Semi-Automatic???

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Angel4JohnnyB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx entered:

Hi all,
HELP PLEASE!!!
Angel
Take a deep breath Angel. It's going to be a wild ride.
You have a lot of things to get settled before you buy a coffee machine.
My wife and I openeed almost 18 months ago after about a year of planning. Like you, neither of us had operated our own business before and being a food business just complicated things by a factor of 10!
As someone else said, write a business plan first. Then re-write it because assumptions you made at the beggining aren't going to hold up till the end. Be prepared to re-write after every major decision or purchase.
Location - Go out and sit and watch the cars. Do they look like they want to stop for coffee? How about when it is raining? Or blazing hot? How about snow?
The building and health departments are not your enemy, they are your friend. Go there to ask about permits, licenses and inspections. Around here one town needed us to appear before the zoning board, another required architects drawing,and a third nothing but inspections!
What are your basic supplies going to cost. What is a minimum order of 12 oz cups and lids. Where are you going to keep them till you need them.
I see that you are planning to refurb an old trailer. Can you get the plumbing and electric set up to be acceptable? (back to the health and building Depts.) It took us 9 monthe to build out from nothing to opening day.
What is goig to your price per cup? Are you going to be able to pay your bills with lesss then 120 cuos per hour? What's your plan if the competion opens down the street?
Have you looked at advertising costs? Even now we get people coming in for the first time saying that they didn't know we were here until they saw the coupon.
I'm not trying to scare you off but these are some points I wish I knew or knew more about before we started.
Bob

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