Opening a coffee shop reddit. Already run 2 other businesses. ft retail space, although you can also get "lucky" with regards to pricing and size when looking on commercial My dream is to open a cat café, or maybe just a normal coffee shop, my main concerns with this is to be able to get enough money to pay the rent of the place and pay the things I need to get started. If you plan to make a chain then it might be possible to use scale to make it work. Based on your other comments, you’re in LA, which is great because there is a wide and diverse coffee and cafe culture. I’ve always wanted to open a coffee shop for many reasons, but mostly because I love coffee and the atmosphere, the clinking of the cups, pastries, smells, I love it all! I can comfortably put $150,000ish towards this new business, and I have Coffee shops are infamous as being traps that use up effort and capital and return little. I've always had the want to start a business, and five months ago I started thinking about opening up my very own bookstore cafe, a place where book lovers alike can come in, buy a book or two, and then relax by drinking their own nice cup of coffee. I haven'd had much support from my family on starting my own business so I put it at the back of my mind and have been working at mindless jobs. The area I'm looking at there are two elementary schools, a medical clinic and soon a senior center and on a main road so the traffic is there. We’ve been open for 15 years and do well, but I’m honestly just not that in love with what we do. What do you recommend I study?. thqb2zs ue0k4j pwl dmv u6m1ihvy dknxj aaq20k dvpia gi zgns