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A business that sells coffee outside a cafe still earns 50,000 a month. Do you think opening a coffee shop makes money? Let's take a look together!

Sitting at the window of Anan's cafe, I turned my head and saw the bustling people coming and going on Chengdu East Street. I could stare blankly without restraint. Looking up, the photos of ice and snow at minus 40 degrees read that sometimes life must be lived at all times.

A couple walks in and asks for homemade coffee. The girl stirs the coffee machine, like the joy of the cogs rolling when the curtains are pulled. The boy giggled.

The melody of "yesterday once more" flows in this 130 square meter blue space, the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window is soft and warm, and the aroma of coffee diffuses at the tip of the nose. Hello, I'm Nan. The cafe owner in front of me is reserved and calm, wearing Woody Allen-style black-rimmed glasses, white shirt and artistic dress.

Open a coffee shop to make money, abandon foreign companies with high salaries, 100,000 start-up cafes

Give up the annual salary of 300,000 foreign company work, go down the peak, start again, look for another mountain scenery, not everyone has such courage, Anan did. Life sometimes know how to give up some things is also quite good, I did ten years of it industry, experienced from bottom to top. Another ten years I want to change the way of life, people in this life, if you only do one thing, the harvest is not big, if you change a life and walk for another ten years, it should be more creative, the meaning is more important.

In 2006, Anan chose to return to Chengdu from Beijing and operated the Four Seasons Feelings Cafe. 40,000 yuan won the shop, decoration and coffee machine. These equipment totaled 60,000 yuan. Anan told the financial weekly reporter that he opened his beloved cafe with 100,000 yuan. At this time, he also had a halo above his head. China's first barista certified by the European Coffee Association.

Perhaps because he had experienced too many things, Anan also had different experiences and opinions on life and coffee. In Anan's view, coffee is just a drink, a way to feel the details of life. So he positioned the four seasons in coffee culture: open a coffee shop to make money, you spend money, you have the right to drink a good cup of coffee.

A professional coffee culture makes Anan's cafe stand out, Anan said: We often encourage guests to buy coffee beans to make their own home, we also hold various coffee salons to teach you how to make coffee, so that everyone who likes coffee can drink a cup of fresh coffee.

Open a coffee shop to make money, sell coffee outside the coffee shop

More than 100 square meters of shops alone can not make money, 10 tables, even if can reach 80% of the attendance rate, but also can only be flat, Anan said, his coffee shop because only coffee, no other products, so in the first two years, Four Seasons Feelings Cafe can barely maintain balance of payments, a month is about 15,000 turnover.

The first choice is that there is a problem with the site selection. When I chose the port at that time, I only paid attention to the proximity to Chunxi Road in the commercial center, but did not carefully investigate the surrounding formats. Anan told the financial weekly reporter that the downstairs and next door of the Four Seasons Feelings Cafe are hot pot shops. Is it profitable to open a coffee shop and the property management is very chaotic, which is very unfavorable for him to make exquisite niche coffee.

More profits come from off-site, cafes are provided with a display platform, Anan told financial weekly reporters, outfield income can reach 40,000 or 50,000 per month, and this part is basically zero investment. I packaged coffee culture to high-end customers such as banks, real estate companies and 4s shops. After entering the field of commercial coffee culture service, Anan said that he had opened up a unique commercial coffee business route, and coffee consultation was also one of our businesses.

Sell coffee outside the cafe, Anan for example, open coffee shop to make money, Four Seasons Feelings Coffee for Chengdu Vanke real estate all buildings held as many as 15 coffee culture salon, Each income is 5000 yuan. Since then, Four Seasons Feelings Coffee has formed a development model with three main lines: coffee shop, freshly roasted coffee beans and coffee outfield coffee culture salon service.

Open a coffee shop to make money, 1.2 million investment in new restaurants, monthly turnover of 200,000

The explosion of Chengdu real estate in 2007 brought Anan's cafe business a second opportunity for development. Chengdu suburb Huayang, high-grade buildings in this year intensive stationed. Anan found a favorite place for cafes in Cannes Impressions here: I always felt that the location of the old store did not match the consumption habits of the region.

Cannes Impression, also known as Haiyun Park, is a modern theme park in Huayang. Anan's new cafe faces the Funan River. Sit in the open-air cafe on the second floor and enjoy a cup of on-site cappuccino with a panoramic view of the river.

The property management of this community is very good. More than 80% of the parking on the surrounding streets is more than 300,000 cars, and the consumption power is guaranteed. Anan said, The new cafe area of 800 square meters, Single building 2 floors, And the second floor is Anan flowers more than 100,000 self-built, Rent free, Equivalent to I only need to pay single-storey rent, Anan told reporters, The whole new store total investment is 1.2 million yuan. The new store is called Love Coffee, and its monthly turnover has reached 200,000 yuan.

In the production of coffee shops, Anan also adjusted his thinking, the original coffee roasting and professional coffee supply are still retained, in his product pyramid, the bottom layer is popular taste of Chinese tea, milk tea, etc., the middle layer is exquisite Western tea, fruit tea, maintain a small number of products belong to the basic consumption of the same industry.

At the top of the pyramid, it is to strive for unique core coffee, which can be said to be unique and completely dependent on my personal skills. Anan said that the most expensive coffee in the cafe is a live demonstration of coffee making skills and tasting, 198 yuan for two people. All beans are imported, mostly from Colombia, Brazil, Indonesia and Africa, Anan said. And the taste of coffee beans, open coffee shop money is the guest with him, my guests are enough to believe in my professionalism, mainly the correct location, this environment has such spending power.

Dig the first bucket of gold suitable for start-up cafe? Anan begs to differ: business success has a lot to do with his business experience. The advantage of this industry is that the cost of raw materials is not high, but many people open coffee shops because they like them, most of which cross industries, so the probability of failure is high.

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Coffee classification

There are more than 60 kinds of coffee, but there are roughly two kinds of coffee grown on a commercial scale, one is Arabica, accounting for about 70% of the world's coffee cultivation area; one is Robasta, accounting for about 30% of the world's coffee cultivation area.

According to the classification of coffee by China's national standards, it is mainly divided into the following five varieties.

1. Arabica coffee, i.e. Arabian species. Native to Ethiopia, it is the world's leading cultivated species. China is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong Zhanjiang area. This species is cold-resistant, drought-tolerant, the product smell mellow, good drinking quality, but easy to infect leaf rust.

2. Medium-grain coffee, i.e. robasta. It is commonly known as indigenous to the tropical rain forest area of Congo, Africa. Cultivation area is second only to small seed species, mainly cultivated in Hainan Province in China. This species is not tolerant to strong light, wind and drought, and has weak cold resistance. However, it has strong disease resistance and is not easy to infect leaf rust. The product has strong taste and strong irritation.

3. Large-grain coffee, i.e. Liberian. Originated in Liberia, Africa. Cultivation area is small, China's Hainan Province also has a small number of planting, suitable for low altitude, high temperature areas to grow.

4. Ethelsa species. Originated in the Charlie River Basin of West Africa, China has no cultivation.

5. Arabasta species. It is a new species of tetraploid coffee produced by colchicine treatment in Cote d'Ivoire, Africa since 1962 by French Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute. It has not been cultivated in China.

Arabian species (commonly known as small seed species) is the most suitable variety for cultivation in Yunnan Province of China.