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The business behind the coffee shop.
Nobody teaches you this part. You learn it by signing the wrong lease, missing the labor number, or finding out in month three what a grease interceptor costs.
These are those lessons, written down — from ten years behind the bar and more than fifty locations assessed. Free to read. No signup, no email gate.
Choosing a location · 14 min read
Coffee shop site feasibility: how to know a location can carry the lease
The volume the lease demands, what the trade area can actually support, the site conditions that turn a short buildout into a long one, and what to ask the landlord for while you still can. With the arithmetic worked through.
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