Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store (Start Your Own Business) [Paperback]

Prentice Hall (Author)

Book Description

Series: Start Your Own Business | Publication Date: September 5, 1996

Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store guides you through the necessary steps to set up this profitable business. Learn how to find the best location for your venture; create a successful coffee and tea store; set up a beverage pushcart; develop a profitable product mix; finance, license, and staff your business; and market your store effectively.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (September 5, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136032753
• ISBN-13: 978-0136032755
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,608,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother, December 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

The publisher took a generic book on small businesses, threw in the odd coffee & tea reference, slapped on a cover with a coffee cup and viola! a new marketing niche... No specific tea information is included at all. Even the standard business info is done better in other books- save your money and buy one of those.

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Less than meets the eye., January 28, 2000

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James D. Lyons (Bremerton, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

I cannot in truth reccomend this title to anyone else. The vast majority of the book is standard small business / resturant material. Only a very tiny portion is devoted to Tea specific material. (And that portion is not very useful to anyone who knows Tea.)

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worst book I've bought, August 8, 2004

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J. Carter (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Coffee & Tea Store (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

The first line of the preface should tell you everything you need to know about this book: "Start Your Own Coffee and Tea Store is the result of many hours of in-depth research into the mail order industry."

Uhh... okay. You'll quickly discover that this is a generic book tweaked just a bit for the coffee business. You'll find anecdotes about carpenters, wildly varying numbers about the profitability of this business, and such sage advice as, "Although it is still possible to rent telephones through certain telephone companies, the best bet is to buy your own. They are inexpensive, come in a variety of styles and colors, and are generally covered by a warranty."

The information in here is dated (1994) and, given the inconsistencies of dollar figures from chapter to chapter, I have no idea if it was ever accurate. Despite the listing in Amazon.com, nobody had the courage to even sign their name to this book -- there's no author listed anywhere, neither on the cover nor anywhere inside.

I'm planning to return this book, if I can. Given that there were some marks in it when I purchased it, I'm pretty sure someone else had bought and returned it before me.