How to Open a Financially Successful Coffee, Espresso and Tea Shop (How to Open & Operate a ...) - Softcover

Godsmark, Elizabeth; Arduser, Lora; Brown, Douglas Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0910627312 ISBN 13: 9780910627313

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

Providing instruction and examples, this work aims to lead you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan, and more. It also leads you through IRS tip reporting requirements, managing and training employees, generate public relations and publicity, and more.

About this title

Synopsis:

This title consists of book & CD-ROM. This manual will arm you with everything you need including sample business forms, leases, and contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations; sample menus; coffee drink recipes; inventory lists; plans and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools of the trade that no coffee entrepreneur should be without. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan, how to buy and (sell) a coffee shop, basic cost control systems, profitable menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, successful beverage management, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, pricing formulas, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, and, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff.

It also leads you through brand new IRS tip reporting requirements, managing and training employees, generate high profile public relations and publicity, learn low cost internal marketing ideas, low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, learn how to keep bringing customers back, accounting and book-keeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The Companion CD-ROM contains all the forms in the book as well as a sample business plan you can adapt for your own use.

About the Author:

Douglas R. Brown is a best selling author and publisher of computer software and books specific to the food service industry. His extensive background and years of service in the food service industry provides the practical insight into the business so desperately needed in the highly volatile food service industry."

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0910627312
• ISBN 13: 9780910627313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288