How much does it cost to open a coffee shop? What do you need to prepare?

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Everyone has fantasized about opening their own coffee shop, decorating it as they like, sitting by the window in the afternoon sun, drinking coffee and making money, feeling that the years are quiet, and it is best to keep a few cats.

The ideal is very full, but when you really open a shop, you have to face a lot of problems.

Open a boutique coffee shop

Choosing a good location means that the coffee shop has been 50% successful. The coffee shop focuses on providing guests with communication and tasting experience, and baristas are more willing to indulge in communication and interaction with guests.

Therefore, for the coffee shop, the significance of location is to find a place with enough potential consumers around, and to open the coffee shop in a suitable business atmosphere.

So the place to open a coffee shop is either a place with a high flow of people, or a place with a lot of potential consumers nearby.

In fact, the location of a coffee shop does not have to be fixed in an office area and a busy business area. as long as it meets the conditions for opening a coffee shop, you can open a coffee shop there.

According to a new survey, about 30% of urban residents drink coffee, which is enough to show that coffee has become a popular product.

Therefore, coffee shops can be opened in commercial, industrial, university, entertainment and residential areas of the city, and success can be achieved as long as the location is good.

The first thing to consider in the decoration of coffee shops is that coffee shops belong to the catering industry, and health management departments have strict requirements for their decoration, so the design and decoration of coffee shops (water, electricity, capacity increase) need to meet the requirements and regulations of local health departments.

The items to be purchased before the coffee shop opens are as follows:

Lobby equipment

The hall equipment is different from the production equipment, which is used to make money, while the hall equipment is prepared to improve the consumption experience of the coffee shop. Coffee hall equipment includes the most basic three: air conditioning, lighting, tables, chairs and sofas.

Design and decoration

The design and decoration of the coffee shop mainly includes exterior decoration and interior decoration. Needless to say, we focus on interior decoration. The interior decoration of the coffee shop mainly includes ground decoration (floor), wall decoration, bar, some trinkets, and the table, chair and sofa mentioned above.

Production equipment

The production equipment of coffee shop is the equipment needed in the process of making coffee, including coffee maker, oven, microwave oven, gas oven, smoothie machine, refrigerator, freezer, tableware, kitchen utensils and so on. It's necessary to open a coffee shop.

Identify raw material suppliers

Before opening a shop, you need to determine the purchase channels of raw materials and ingredients in the operation of the coffee shop, and sign a long-term procurement agreement with raw material suppliers.