Erich,
Can you suggest which coffee suppliers lease out the machines??
Mariann
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From: Erich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:31 AM
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Karen I know you are only a month away from the big day but if you can swing
it try to get some better coffee equipment in your place.
DK makes a very good point and I would have to agree with him. Once again
everyone has different situations. Think about leasing the coffee equipment
and espresso machine. You can get into a 4 year lease with a buyout option
of 10% or $1.00 at the end of the term. Your looking at about 250 to 350 a
month in payments. This is a good option if you are short on start up
capital. I am not sure a regular coffee pot will cut it. I do about 20k a
month in gross sales and only 2k a month with the Internet side of the
business so in my case it does not pay the rent. There are plenty of
Internet Cafes out there that gross more than we do on the Internet side but
I am pretty sure the successful ones have either a restaurant, coffeehouse,
espresso bar, juice bar, cigar bar, etc integrated in their business to
bring in more volume. Anybody else in the U.S that has a similar set up like
Karen ( Internet generated volume 90% of gross sales) that is a success,
chime in, I may be way off here.
As far as grand opening tips, try to advertise the big day in you local or
neighborhood papers it is cheaper and hits people in your area. Send them a
press release you might even get a story written about you for free! I would
stay away from radio and TV. Too expensive. Try to get your local TV station
to do a spot on the local news, call up the station and see if they would be
interested and it would not cost you a dime. Blanket the area with flyers,
hit other business and neighborhoods.
Good Luck
Erich Gellner
JaVa's Cyber Espresso Bar
www.javas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "dk smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [cc] grand opening ideas
>
> At 1:30 PM -0400 8/27/00, from skyblu wrote:
>
> >We are not going to sell cooked food, just lots of snacks, and
prepackaged
> >sandwiches as our store is adjacent to a deli. I would like to sell some
> >speciality coffees, but the machines are too expensive for us right now,
so
> >we will only offer coffee from a regular coffee pot.
> >
>
> I think you should be careful about limiting yourself to only computers.
> Game companies are not exactly backing you in this effort. I hate to say
> that this strategy will likely fail, I do believe it would be awfully
> high-risk for you to open without a restaurant side. Unless you have an
> unusual situation, a cybercafe may have difficulty sustaining itself if
> only delivering revenue via a computer-rental establishment; particularly
> in a Western country such as the USA. How much are you paying for access
> monthly? If under $100/month then you might have a chance.
>
> You may want to reconsider this decision and then go get a good education
> on running a high-quality espresso bar from the SCAA org.
> (http://www.scaa.org). That is a fine organization that has the
appropriate
> material for managing the espresso and coffee side of the business.
>
> I hope this helps you avoid unnecessary pain and suffering.
>
>
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