Coffee business

Im starting a coffee roasting business. What will be my biggest hurdles? I know in my state we have cottage law im protected up to a certain revenue.
whats my chances of making it?

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I've thought of this before given that there are so many chains that are just garbage, I never go to costa of starbucks because fundamentally they arent actually 'coffee' shops they are just gimmicks.

I dont want some plain as piece of shit coffee thats 1 shot per 2litres of water with a shot of syrup (yuck!) in it and artifical flavours and creams, that shits for absolute normies with the shittest taste.

Having a variety of beans to be chosen from, 2 shots in half a litre of water min, and just plain sugar and milk to taste is how it should be done.

If you had a cafe I think you would be more successful because then you could create a nice vibe, combined with an e-shop people who come and visit could find you online and order beans from you at a competitive price.

Im a britbong and its truly surprising how difficult it is to find true conesseur coffee shops in this country, drinking coffee out is almost always a dissappointment.

Best places for coffee are spain and italy imo for drinking out, damn you can get better coffee at a truck stop in spain than you can most of the uk.

So the plan is start with 4 roasts light medium dark and a decaf.
A cafe is a futue goal but at the moment I want to start small and open an estore and ship them. We are using Colombian beans but we havent settles on a single bean. So far I like Nicaragua the most but its considered a "cheaper" bean.

Also just trying to sell beans+grounds for now.

you have to eat the bean and shit them out in one peace, they will get an unique falvor

Will try, so far the beans have come out tasting funny but maybe its the porcelain.

nicaraguan bean is very nice on a dark roast, plus colombian fuck yea you cant go wrong. Guatemalan bean also very good. I have a sudanese friend who highly recommends ethiopian beans too, but cant say ive ever tried.

The biggest hurdle you may find friend is publicity, how you gonna go about bringing those repeat customers in, because simply as an e-shop people will treat you as a literal 'who?' company.

Even if you got a little stall, did food fairs, family day out kinda events where there is foo vans, it will really get the ball rolling and make an impression on people.

A cool thing I saw was in sheffield there was a cafe that had a little tuc-tuc (asian 3 wheeler thing) that had a coffee maker out the back near the train station, they would make business all day.

Something like this would also be ideal.

Have you got any ideas like gift hampers? little of a few varieties, also stocking things like imported baclava / italian pastries could also increase revenue.

Food for thought: the reason starbucks is successful is because that's what normans want when they get coffee. And they're everywhere.

Not many people give a shit about artisanal coffee roasters.

However, people DO give a shit about where they're drinking, so if you build a well designed cafe in a highly foot trafficked area it should be a sturdy foundation for a business.

>t. barista in seattle

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We plan on having mugs, hats, and tshirts.
Stickers are being made now but we are on the label and logo creation portion of the project.

Your biggest hurdle will be that your existing competitors had a significant head start in growing their beards/mustaches/getting tattoos. It will be very difficult for you to catch up.
You could attempt to compensate by seeking some absurd niche that is unrelated to the usual hipster driven artisanal thing that everyone is doing. Something along the lines of Laird Hamilton’s superfood coffee. Or that one toaster who names all his coffees after assault rifles and puts pictures of assault rifles on the bags.

My friend did this. He started with one machine, working out of his house and now owns several cafés, travels around the world to broker deals with farmers and sells his own brand coffee online too. It took him a while to scale his business and you need to have importation costs which allow you to sell at competitive prices.

Cafe is the goal after making some revenue and establishing a name
Our niche is playing cards, wont give out name but we got a spicy one.
So far we are buying unroasted at $3.25 a lb (100lbs at a time) and selling 16.99 per 12 oz (still considered on the cheaper side)

everything is location location location though, I mean whilst we are on the topic you can buy into a maccy D's franchise but it would be worthless without the right foot traffic. I live near the highest grossing Maccy d's in my country, and funnily enough, its on the road exiting the city onto the M4, everyone who travels back and forth from wherever to here for business uses it.

I get what your saying user, but this is one of the rare threads on Jow Forums that I get to feel passionate about, and I am indeed passionate about coffee (and food) , but this is also why I say about having a shop for the 'vibe' people would go somewhere again and again with the right 'vibe' if you serve seriously good coffee too then your ticking many boxes.

fairs my dude, pretty generic though dont you think? wouldnt you prefer stand out a little from the crowd, say engraved fancy spoon, branded coffee perculator, or something that isnt the universal 'whois?' of branding like every single sports team has or some other shit.

There is still a huge market for coffee, but the energy drink addiction isn't going away. Give up on coffee and invest in energy drinks.

Ohhh i like the spoon idea, will probably steal it. Got any other juicy items?
I have a drink company, i piss in a jar and add 2 caffeine tablets in it. The goats in my neighbors farm go wild.

I have an idea for an energy drink containing methamphetamine called Spiked Energy.

>dark and a decaf.
Don't do these.

Light for patricians. Medium for converts on the fence. All you need.

I live in a major Metropolitan and new roasteeies here either only do light or only do medium.

>Not many people give a shit about artisanal coffee roasters
Times are changing, old man. Ask any zoomer in a big city about Starbucks and they'll tell you it's shit and they overroast their low quality beans

You're either very brave or very stupid, OP. Coffee is an incredibly saturated market

okay wtf I love zoomers now

Why wouldnt i also sell dark roast? Its 3 more minutes in the roaster? And some assholes like decaf again why wouldnt i sell it?

What ISNT a saturated market these days?
I love coffee and i love illustrating so why not combine it and make a company im happy with?
Im not trying to be a neet millionaire, i want to own a company Im happy with and have no bosses.

lol, well like I say man, stand out, do something different isnt it, what about kilner jars embossed with your logo or what have you, sell a jar of beans like a gift, then when the beans run out, they order more from you and have a perfect jar to keep them in.

Whenever I think of branding thats just hats, a t-shirt or cup its so fuckin uninspired, I can buy my own clothes thanks I dont have any reason why I would buy something branded like this even if I liked the product.

It just screams out a lack of imagination and generic branding thats been done a gajillion times over.

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>What ISNT a saturated market these days?
Sex robots.

donbt listen to this dumbass, dark is for proper coffee lovers, probs be your biggest seller, decaf because its a competitive thing, like you wouldnt freeze out vegetarians from a restaurant, some people like the taste but the caffeine effects them negatively.

oh yea, pic related, this would be cool, little branded camping coffee stove, imagine going fishing with your buddy's (or your pa) and having a few irish coffee's on the move, shit growing up me and my friends would just go on hikes all over the countryside getting high and drinking coffee made on stoves.

Find a busy Starbucks. Open your local coffee cafe next to it.

Use Hostelling theoreum to your advantage.

If your coffee and service is any good you will make money.

>dark and decaf
It's more inventory you need to manage. You DO know beans lose most of their flavor a couple weeks after roasting and should be tossed out after 4 weeks at the very minimum, right?

>dark is for proper coffee lovers
dark is unironically lowering the caffeine content, increasing the heartburn and changing the flavor content from fruity/nutty/floral to sickly sweet with a burnt aftertaste which boomers like yourself require due to a lifetime of neglecting your pallete

zoomers are pretty based in general, t b h

Yes but unroasted beans can last up to 3 months. So far we are made to order.

Also personally I think dark roast is fucking gross but some assholes like it so I will make it

>dark is for proper coffee lovers
Boomers

and here we go with the usual Jow Forumstard trying to hijack a thread to make it all about them because of my superiority (really inferiority) complex.

Eat my dick son, you clearly dont know what your talking about because managing inventory isnt nearly as difficult as LITERALLY TURNING AWAY BUSINESS because 'oh no we dont do decaf, oh no we dont do 'coffeee' we only do 'some coffee' '.

Fuck you you little cunt, tell the 'neglected pallett' bullshit to real eficianado's of cuisine like the italians.

Do you know why an american is called an americano? because when the muricans went over during the war the italians (with their neglected palletts) had to water down their coffee for the muricans delicate little pallets 'bewcawsss it wusss twooo stwwwoonggg fwowr dem'.

Just like your whiskey isnt shit, your coffee shit murica, and you have the audacity to comment on palette's whilst having probably the most god awful chemical food on the planet.

>BEING THIS MAD OVER COFFEE
Its ok man, you can buy my dark roast with no judgment from me.

I said I was passionate, and I'll be damned if a little Jow Forumsraeli comments on pallette like some high status wine taster when they a fucking NEET talking shit like they saw it on a movie about culture and food.

Face it, muricans arent known for their good food and drink, the europeans are. So when a murican comments of superior taste as some 'weak roasted' flavourless shit, it inspires incredulity.

>So far we are made to order.
fair enough. I was mostly talking about opening up a roastery that sells wholesale to cafes, which is where the big bucks are right now i m o

>i like my steak well-done and slathered in sauce just like most of the world so you know i'm right
>fuck you i'm entitled to my own opinion don't judge me
typical boomerspeak

Hey man are you in the states?

I'm looking to start a coffee subscription box and would love to have a fellow biztard's coffee in my box one month.

If it's any good that is lol

kys

We are but we arent live yet, im hoping in the next 2-3 weeks. Ill make another post about it when it is.
Already dead inside from being a wagie, no need to do one better

>Im starting a coffee roasting business
>A roastie business.

Employees. I have a few friends that work in fancy cafes in the bay area. The kind of people that work at these places are usually entitled, self important retards that start workplace drama constantly. Literally trannies with brars complaining they "don't feel comfortable" at work.

If you are going to do this find one killer manager that you already know and a bunch of rotating college roastie girls to work there.

Not a cafe, im in a room alone with a roasting machine and a bunch of grinders. I doubt ill need more people untill I get to some crazy number where i cant keep up.