How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Coffee, Espresso and Tea Shop with Companion CD-ROM Revised 2nd Edition

The revised second edition of How to Open a Financially Successful Coffee, Espresso & Tea Shop is an updated, comprehensive, and detailed guide of specialty coffee and beverage businesses. This superb manual should be read by anyone interested in the opportunity of opening a cafe, tea shop, or coffee kiosk. This complete manual supplies you with everything you need to know, such as 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; sample floor plans, diagrams, and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools that any coffee entrepreneur should know about. This manual demonstrates hundreds of innovative ways to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance. Shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, websites, operation and cost-cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that is easily applied to their everyday business. The revised second edition of __How to Open a Financially Successful Coffee, Espresso & Tea Shop__ is an updated, comprehensive, and detailed guide of specialty coffee and beverage businesses. This superb manual should be read by anyone interested in the opportunity of opening a cafe, tea shop, or coffee kiosk.This complete manual supplies you with everything you need to know, such as 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; sample floor plans, diagrams, and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools that any coffee entrepreneur should know about.This manual demonstrates hundreds of innovative ways to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance. Shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, websites, operation and cost-cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that is easily applied to their everyday business. Successful pre-opening activities Organizing pre-opening activities The basics of buying a coffee, espresso & tea shop How to invest in a franchise Basic cost control for beverage and food service operations : an overview Choosing the best equipment, coffees, teas and food products Profitable menu planning : for maximum results Inventory control : for maximum profits Successful management of operational costs and supplies The essentials of beverage and food safety, HACCP, and sanitation practices Computers and your beverage and food service operation Successful employee recruitment Successful employee motivation and training Successful labor cost control Successful public relations : how to get customers in the door Internal marketing : how to keep customers coming back to your establishment Internal bookkeeping : accounting for sales and costs Successful budgeting and profit planning : for maximum results. In this completely revised new second edition, the author leads you through every fact of the coffee business while providing detailed instructions and examples. This manual includes sample business forms, 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.