How much money does it take to open a coffee shop? How much is it to invest in a coffee shop?

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Let's start with some places where it costs money to open a coffee shop:

Space-including the renovation and design costs of a space, rent, utilities, maintenance and maintenance. In theory, the rent should not exceed 15% of the estimated sales.

Documents-expenses incurred during the preparation period of the cafe, including legal fees and license processing.

Equipment-including an Italian coffee maker, Italian bean grinder, coffee brewing equipment (siphon, ice drop or hand flushing apparatus, etc.), mixing machine, an operating freezer, you may also need some cooking or baking utensils, POS machine, etc.

Supplies-including drinks (coffee beans, milk, syrup, tea and other ingredients), food (some of the breakfast or lunch foods you will have to prepare for a customer), as well as additional items such as cups, paper towels, blenders, etc.

Advertising promotion expenses

Employee salary expenditure

Tax and fee expenditure

Initial cash flow

We believe that the first and eighth items above are the most important.

The first item: many people think that they can choose a location with a lower rent, or do not set up some facilities to enhance customer experience, in order to save the expenses of the first item. However, these settings and location are crucial to a cafe-and Starbucks knows it.

Item 8: there will be many examples of some companies going bankrupt because they ran out of money before they succeeded. Cafe owners must make it clear that before their business is stable, they must ensure that they have a sufficiently reliable financial buffer to rely on.

However, we are not store experts or industry forecasters, and we cannot tell you that we can tailor a profitable business plan for you, but we do have the experience to help people guide them to buy the right coffee equipment. Having a good coffee machine is very important for a store, but if you are an entrepreneur who wants to keep the cost within 100000 yuan and open a coffee shop, they may not have enough money to buy a high-quality coffee machine.

Italian coffee machine-the fully automatic integrated coffee machine and the semi-automatic coffee machine are selected here. The fully automatic coffee machine can complete Italian concentrated extraction with one click. You will often see it in bakeries and McDonald's that serve coffee. The advantage of this coffee machine is that it is convenient and fast, and you don't need to hire another barista to operate it. Anyone can learn how to make a quick cup of coffee with a button. The disadvantage is that the fully automatic coffee machine needs to be more meticulous in maintenance, more expensive and less personalized. If you use a semi-automatic coffee machine, you need a barista to do grinding and pressing powder, extraction, milk foaming and other work. This makes customers feel that what they buy is not just a cup of coffee, but a process of watching baristas make coffee and enjoy being served. Most cafes will use semi-automatic coffee machines, but a high-quality semi-automatic coffee machine will cost an average of about 8000 RMB100000. A professional commercial fully automatic coffee machine is about 10,000 RMB70,000 (let's not talk about more than 100,000 coffee machines like ghost machines for the time being).

Italian bean grinder-most baristas would think that a good bean grinder is a very important part of Italian concentrated extraction. A good bean grinder costs about 3500 RMB30000. But the fully automatic coffee machine will grind your beans, so you don't need to buy another bean grinder.

Coffee brewing equipment-making utensils for a good cup of coffee is also very important. Of course, each kind of production equipment also varies according to the price of the demand: the price of the ice drip kettle ranges from 200 yuan to 19000 yuan, while the siphon pot ranges from 200 yuan to 5000 yuan. The siphon pot is not easy to control, and the parts of each component are sold on the market; the hand coffee sets vary from 100 to 20000, while the expensive ones are hand-made coffee pots, hand racks and filter cups.

Single coffee grinder-this grinder is different from the Italian concentrated grinder. The Italian bean grinder has a small grinding plate and a device with a handle so that the coffee powder can fall directly into the powder bowl of the handle. On the other hand, a single coffee grinder can be used to grind coarser coffee powder and use a powder receiver to pick up the powder. A high-quality bean grinder costs about 3500 RMB30000.

In this way, the total cost of the coffee bar will fall in the range of 23000 yuan, 170000 yuan (this is a semi-automatic Italian coffee machine, Italian bean grinder, various cooking utensils plus a single bean grinder).

You don't have enough money to buy equipment?

But here are a few options that might suit you:

Buy second-hand equipment. Maybe you can buy some refurbished, high-quality equipment that has already been used. Generally speaking, its price is about 50% and 70% of the price of the new equipment.

Or you could consider opening a themed cafe, such as one that sells only individual coffee served in CHEMEX or similar sharing pots, with an attractive brand story. And cafes that only buy individual coffee are very popular at the moment.

Or, it is also a good choice to replace physical stores with coffee cars (or mobile sales) that have just sprung up in China.

So, how much does it cost to open a cafe?

According to experience, it is at least about 300000 RMB. If you have 300000 yuan, it will be much easier than if you have only 100000 yuan, and it is impossible to open a cafe for only 100000 yuan.

And for daily operation and maintenance, if the monthly rent and material cost can be controlled within 5000 and 45 cups of coffee are sold every day, there will be a profitable income.

But if you really want to open a coffee shop, there must be a commendable one between the location and the interior design, of course, what is more important is your attitude towards making coffee and the quality of the coffee you make. Anyone wants to get a delicious cup of coffee at the right price, a sweet smile, and a good mood.

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