Starting Your Own Coffee and Tea Shop: How to start a successful coffee and tea shop (Start Your Own) - Softcover

Wills, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854584774 ISBN 13: 9781854584779

Publisher: Crimson, 2010

Synopsis

Ever dreamed of opening a coffee or tea shop? If you are an coffee shop entrepreneur in the making, this book will show you how. We cover every aspect of setting up a coffee or tea shop and break the process down step-by-step so you can make your business a success. You might think the market's dominated by corporate coffee house chains - you'd be wrong! Independent coffee and tea shops are still thriving, and you can join them. We guide you through raising finance, testing your idea, analysing your competitors and getting up and running to ensure your business succeeds. Starting Your Own Coffee or Tea Shop is crammed with profiles, tips and real-life advice from the founders of extremely successful coffee and tea shops, including Costa Coffee, Betty's Tea Shop and some award-winning independents around the UK; so you can learn from the best. Written in conjunction with the UK's most popular website for small business, Startups.co.uk, the information is quality, easy to understand and accurate. Startups.co.uk helps over 150,000 people every month to start their businesses. It is the UK's most popular website for small business owners and helps you start up and run your own business.

About this title

About the Author

Founded in 1999, our award winning website startups.co.uk helps more than one million people start their business every year. We are consistently rated as the leading source of information for UK entrepreneurs. In addition to our website, we host the prestigious startupsawards each year and run startupslive, our programme of free networking events. For quality small business information you can trust,look for startups.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Want to open a coffee or tea shop?

Coffee and tea are a national obsession that fuel a lucrative industry worth an estimated £2.5 billion each year. A market as strong as this offers plenty of
opportunities for ambitious people looking to start a coffee or tea shop.

Whether you're looking to start a boutique tea shop or have dreams of becoming the next Costa Coffee, this is the book to start you off.

Combining the expertise of the UK's number one small business website, startups.co.uk, with successful coffee shop founders, we show you how to turn your idea into a thriving reality.

With practical and detailed advice from Bettys Tea Room, Costa Coffee and Coffee Republic, find out how to start a coffee aor tea shop and:

Identify your market
Raise start-up
finance
Locate the right
premises and kit them out
Find good suppliers
Employ and retain staff
Compete against the big chains
Make sure your customers return

About startups

Founded in 1999, our award winning website startups.co.uk
helps more than one million people start their business every
year. We are consistently rated as the leading source
of information for UK entrepreneurs.
In addition to our website, we host the prestigious
startupsawards each year and run startupslive,
our programme of free networking events.
For quality small business information you can trust,look for startups.co.uk

From the Inside Flap

Our range of start-up books provide you with real life examples from business start-ups, expert tips from
entrepreneurs and hugely practical advice from a wealth of experts and advisers.

Give your business the best chance of success with startups.

The tips inside this book come from the founders of some of the UK's most successful
coffee and tea shops.

Starting a business
means using the tools you
have in everyday life!
Sahar Hashemi, founder,
Coffee Republic

Find a market where there
are customers who have a
need which is not being met by
the current providers.
Shelagh Ry an, founder, Lantana

Test your idea out by
talking to people whose
opinions you value.
Tim Hume, founder,
Redroaster Coffee House

If it's just numbers you're
after, advertise away. If it
is return custom you are after,
perfect your product.
Raymond Voce, founder, Royal Teas

Edition details

• Publisher: Crimson
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854584774
• ISBN 13: 9781854584779
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352