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A coffee shop opened in my hometown and it was THE BIGGEST DEAL. They sold a sandwich made of ricotta cheese and lettuce. Just the squeakiest, wettest thing. It still exists, but as a diner that closes at 3 pm.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:
because i dont go to coffee shops to sit and read or do poo poo on my laptop. i go to get coffee
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why would you want to go to a coffee shop that's empty. can sit around and read alone at home.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:because i dont go to coffee shops to sit and read or do poo poo on my laptop. i go to get coffee I go to coffee shops to sit and read in a comfortable environment, and I sure as gently caress don’t want to sit in some poorly lit, rest-stop-on-a-highway looking rear end place
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Zeinin posted:However 20 grand will get your dick ripped off. You probably need 50 or 100. OP, this guy knows what he's talking about. I bootstrapped a coffeeshop a couple of years ago and despite getting a screaming deal on a roasting machine*, already owning a 3-group La Marzocco Linea that I'd rebuilt the previous year in my garage as a hobby project, doing the buildout by myself, and getting a $600/mo lease, it still cost me about $50k all in to open the doors, and that didn't include a single day of payroll or income after opening. I'm not saying it's impossible to do it for less, but...it's not likely, if you intend the place to stick around. Doubly unlikely if you spend all this remaining savings just to open the doors and then can't cover payroll or vendor invoices. The day your milk vendor stops coming, you're dead. (* I know OP isn't looking to roast but I spent what a new LM GB5 costs so it works out the same)
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Jisei posted:OP, this guy knows what he's talking about. I bootstrapped a coffeeshop a couple of years ago and despite getting a screaming deal on a roasting machine*, already owning a 3-group La Marzocco Linea that I'd rebuilt the previous year in my garage as a hobby project, doing the buildout by myself, and getting a $600/mo lease, it still cost me about $50k all in to open the doors, and that didn't include a single day of payroll or income after opening. What happened to the coffee shop?
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Shamino posted:What happened to the coffee shop? There is no way you are not a troll holy poo poo
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:There is no way you are not a troll holy poo poo This has been established. We’re just waiting for the headshot.
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Have you considered doing a collab with 3O and using some of his Keurigs?
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Shamino posted:I've been unemployed since January and am trying to figure out my next career move. I have a lead on a spot in a lovely part of town for $900/mo and figure it'll cost me about $20,000 all in to get the place open, which is about 90% of the savings I have left. It's near a busy intersection and an office park so there is plenty of vehicle traffic. If I can do even 200 drinks/day (just 25/hr assuming I'm open from 5-2) it'd take care of all my bills and then some. Sounds good, but be sure to hire from the lovely part of town or take your gentrifying rear end and gently caress it with a rusty fork.
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Synthetic Dreams posted:Sounds good, but be sure to hire from the lovely part of town or take your gentrifying rear end and gently caress it with a rusty fork. Hire? They plan to run the place solo lol
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Hire? They plan to run the place solo lol Oh, now THAT is an idea. OP, if you theme your coffee shoppe after the seminal film Solo: a Star Wars Story, I will fly to Houston or whatever and buy at least fifty dollars' worth of products from you.
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do a cafe con piernas, op.you can sell the worst coffee on earth and still make all the money
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Shamino posted:What happened to the coffee shop? It's name is STARBUCKS Einstein and everyone loves it and claps.
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Zeta Acosta posted:do a cafe con piernas, op.you can sell the worst coffee on earth and still make all the money No I'm not going to do a titty bar coffee shop. I do have a local woman who makes Mexican breads who said she'd be happy to supply the shop. Before goons go apeshit this is allowed in Texas under a certain volume per year. It we hit that volume there are "cloud commerical kitchens" when you can rent space by the hour for that stuff. I did have lunch with my CRE broker today and he showed me half a dozen spaces where owners ran out of money waiting on permits, even though the space.was 50-90% done. Apparently this last year has been really awful to deal with even though the city claims significantly different. This is pretty discouraging, he did suggest we could request total rent abatement until an occupancy permit is issued but thats ultimately up to the landlord.
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when ive been stuck on I10 for 45 minutes trying to get to my job at the Chevron Factory, there's nothing more I want than to risk my life negotiating the Gessner exit for a primo cup o joe 
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I'm one of those lucky/unlucky people who metabolize caffeine so fast it has zero effect on me, have you thought about how you're going to attract people like me OP? We caffeine-immunes generally have more money because we're not pissing it away on coffee every day.
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Shamino posted:No I'm not going to do a titty bar coffee shop. I do have a local woman who makes Mexican breads who said she'd be happy to supply the shop. Before goons go apeshit this is allowed in Texas under a certain volume per year. It we hit that volume there are "cloud commerical kitchens" when you can rent space by the hour for that stuff. If you legit want to work this go hit a farmers market up. I see dudes hussling their coffee business at them. Hell I have a family member that has a successful food business that started at one in San Antonio..but it did require 90 hour weeks and a spouse working a full-time job on top of it for awhile before they were successful
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Shamino posted:No I'm not going to do a titty bar coffee shop. I do have a local woman who makes Mexican breads who said she'd be happy to supply the shop. Before goons go apeshit this is allowed in Texas under a certain volume per year. It we hit that volume there are "cloud commerical kitchens" when you can rent space by the hour for that stuff. Just throw your $20k in the garbage and close the thread already, this is getting boring
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A couple places by me started as pop ups in art galleries, then got like permanent poo poo later in the gallery. But I guess that might not work in an empty auto garage. Start an art gallery maybe?
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use the 20k to fix the auto garage and run that instead
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Just throw your $20k in the garbage and close the thread already, this is getting boring
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Just throw your $20k in the garbage and close the thread already, this is getting boring Don't do this, at least buy up $20k worth of coffee beans just to document what that looks like
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Buy $20k in gift certs to nord vpn and SA.
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Shamino posted:
Maybe your $20k could get a location to 95% complete for the failed business that comes after yours.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Just throw your $20k in the garage and close the thread already, this is getting boring
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You can get a kilo of cocaine for about $20k and sell it instead. You wanna sell stimulants, then sell stimulants. Idiot.
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You can also just do a kilo of cocaine but you might die
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I already booked a two week summer vacation in the lovely part of Houston, don't you dare gently caress me over OP!
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Just throw your $20k in the garbage and close the thread already, this is getting boring Yep, thread done, op shameful
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Maybe the world is finally ready for artisanal, fair trade, certified organic cocaine.
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Thumposaurus posted:Maybe the world is finally ready for artisanal, fair trade, certified organic cocaine. the cia going to take you to a black site for this one!!!
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always thought a coffee shop would be a good way to launder money like if you had about $2 million bucks and needed a cash only business to pump the funds into (for some reason I always imagine a jewel heist, with boats) even then i’d expect to lose a significant amount of that money on purpose to make it look like a real business. buy really fancy expensive name brand equipment and decorate the heck out of the place with stainless steel and exposed brick etc etc, get as much insurance as possible on it all, only hire really attractive baristas who you pay well so the place looks plausibly successful I’d expect to “write off” a couple hundred thousand. maybe if you set it up on paper as a business you can sell in a few years, sell the equipment used at a loss for tax purposes etc etc for damage control
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I'd be on board with that, if it's the kind of money laundering joint that manages to go the extra mile and somehow has great coffee. Like a "yeah, I know it's a mafia front, but the pizza's actually pretty good" kinda thing.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'd be on board with that, if it's the kind of money laundering joint that manages to go the extra mile and somehow has great coffee. Like a "yeah, I know it's a mafia front, but the pizza's actually pretty good" kinda thing. one day my jewel heist friends walk into the successful business I started accidentally with “just one more heist for old times sake” and my hot younger barista girlfriend says “no baby don’t go I’m pregnant” but they’re holding all these boat catalogs and the new CrissCraft lineup has all leather seats and then the FBI busts in and that’s when I wake up and have to go to my office worker job
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:There is no way you are not a troll holy poo poo Burt Sexual posted:This has been established. We’re just waiting for the headshot. It's not really trolling though when you specifically say you're being completely earnest in your questions, it just makes you a boring lying idiot.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's not really trolling though when you specifically say you're being completely earnest in your questions, it just makes you a boring lying idiot. I kind of stopped caring whether people posting on the internet are trolling or not years ago. It's just not a hill I'm invested in dying on. That said, "I'm going to make lovely business decisions" isn't a clever or outlandish troll; it's a dreadfully common real life thing that actually happens every day.
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Burt Sexual posted:This has been established. We’re just waiting for the headshot. Please put a bullet in it
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Hilariously enough, laundromats are great for laundering money.
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Crystal shop: Adjacent space that needs a lot of work:  Space I'd like to get but haven't heard from the CRE broker on:    
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Shamino posted:Adjacent space that needs a lot of work: Are you sure these captions aren't backwards?
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