A comprehensive guide on what to expect when owning and operating this type of business, this book includes everything from choosing a unique identity to roasting, making, and serving coffee, espresso, and tea. Learn the steps to: Turning beans into bucks; Building a winning sales team; providing WOW! customer service.The two authors share their inside perspective on running a coffee bar, answering questions such as:
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"A must-have for all coffee bar owners. Full of useful information." -- Lloyd Johnson, Ricco Coffee Bakery/Roaster
"Tom and Marybeth provide great information on all aspects of starting your own specialty coffee operation. Their customer service and marketing ideas are outstanding." -- Nick DiTomaso, Bean Around the World
A must-have for all coffee bar owners. Full of useful information. -- Lloyd Johnson, Ricco Coffee Bakery/Roaster
Tom and Marybeth provide great information on all aspects of starting your own specialty coffee operation. Their customer service and marketing ideas are outstanding. -- Nick DiTomaso, Bean Around the World
"Tom and Marybeth provide great information on all aspects of starting your own specialty coffee operation. Their customer service and marketing ideas are outstanding." -- Nick DiTomaso, Bean Around the World
A must-have for all coffee bar owners. Full of useful information. -- Lloyd Johnson, Ricco Coffee Bakery/Roaster
Tom and Marybeth provide great information on all aspects of starting your own specialty coffee operation. Their customer service and marketing ideas are outstanding. -- Nick DiTomaso, Bean Around the World
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You, too, can take advantage of one of today's most popular and profitable business ventures--a coffee bar/tea shop.
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97 of 99 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best book for the beans,
By julie, horse lover (redding, ca United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Start and Run a Coffee Bar (Start & Run ...) (Paperback)
We are opening a coffee house in 4 months and, needless to say, I have been reading and researching tons of books. Not just on the coffee world, but on insuring a small business as well as other legal insights. This book has been a HUGE resource for our venture. It is an easy read, meaning, it doesn't numb your mind for countless pages discussing, say, insurance. Let me add that it does talk about insurance, and I thank the authors for that. They explain complicated business talk with clear and consise examples. They also tend to weigh situations against other situations. For example, when drawing up the plans, they give you three ways of doing it (yourself, a draftsman, and an architect) and explain the pros and cons of each. This is consistent throughout the book and they go on to explain why or why not certain things work. They discuss marketing, staffing and the interview process, equipment tips, design layout, decor, etc. This is obviously written from the stand point of people who have been there. They cover all the bases about getting your shop up and running while touching on some potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. And if you get in a bind, they discuss how to get out of it. My highlighter has gotten a workout and I am passing this on to my co-owners to read. I am grateful to have found this book and only wish I had found it sooner to save money on the previous "coffee house" books I have purchased. This book exceeded my expectations as it went beyond the basics and truly is the only book you'll ever need. I was impressed to see that they covered LLC's, C corporations, and, S corporations...where people can't sue and go after your homes, bank accounts, personal assets, etc. Our attorney recomended an LLC for our type of operation and I was relieved to see that this book brought the topic up. Thanks to the authors for being the most complete work out there (in my opinion) on starting your business THE RIGHT WAY from the start.
58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's a good start...,
By Smittie (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Start and Run a Coffee Bar (Start & Run ...) (Paperback)
Start & Run a Coffee Bar is a good starting point. The devil is always in the details. This book does a great job of helping you to think about the details. All those little things that you usually discover as you are in the process of setting things up. Starting with the business plan and working through to expanding and franchising. The book offers sample lists, charts and worksheets that provide ballpark figures to work with. The book talks about the basics of the product itself, coffee and espresso. In short, the book is very thorough in covering the things you will need to think about in starting and running a coffee bar.
If you do exactly as the book says, you'll end up with a coffee bar that is like a thousand other coffee bars. The overall approach is very formula focused. You will need to bring your own personality and ideas to the table to make your place unique. While I appreciated the information the book provides, I found the manner and tone annoying. I found the commitment boxes at the end of each chapter sophmoric and condescending. The book's description of how employees should greet and deal with customers is delivered in a tone that indicates little room for variance. This is the only way to do it. And most of the book is that way. The book addresses a coffee shop with a roaster on site. A lot of the marketing discussion centers around the roaster and custom roast coffee. Great if you're planning to have that. At $17, I don't regret the purchase. The book contains a lot of very useful nuts and bolts information. But I think you will want to read several other books to really understand the coffee business and the coffee customer. I found the accompanying CD of little value.
110 of 117 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book.,
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This review is from: Start and Run a Profitable Coffee Bar (Self-Counsel Business Series) (Paperback)
I found "Start and Run a Profitable Coffee Bar" an excellent book for restaurant novice such as myself. I have operated a business but not a restaurant or coffee shop. This book is excellent. It provided many different forms which would be useful in running a coffee bar. The book also included in an appendix coffee organizations and suppliers, helping the novice tremendously. I would definitely recommend purchasing this book if you are interested in starting a coffee bar or shop.
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