Product Description

From business plan to recipes, this book will give you all the information and advice you will need to help you set up and run a coffee shop and lunch bar. In it you will find the expert advice, first hand experience, and practical information to make your new business a success. This book features: choosing the right location, creating a useful image and choosing an appropriate name, planning an attractive menu, employing and training the right staff, finding and dealing with helpful suppliers, keeping to the required health and safety regulations, and more - including popular recipes from the author's own coffee shop.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31695 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 206 pages

Review
`A must-have guide for anyone thinking of starting their own coffee establishment.'
--Hospitality Business

About the Author
As a social worker, author Heather Lyon worked with children and families for several years before deciding on a career change. Having always wanted to own and run her own coffee shop, she opened for business in 2001. She now has a thriving business with 120 seats and always a queue of customers waiting to fill them.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and factually comprehensive
I have been toying with the idea of opening a small coffee shop for a long time, and having read this book, although the writer is very frank about the possible pitfalls, I feel more enthusiastic than ever. The book covers many of the issues that have been keeping me awake at night: business plans, premises, suppliers, menus, staffing issues, compliance with rules and regulations etc. For a factual book, it is also a surprisingly entertaining read, as the writer has included lots of interesting tips and short anecdotes from her own experiences. As an example of the kind of tip the book contains, the writer explains that before starting up she visited a successful coffee shop in another town and got chatting to the owner, who gave her a list of all of his suppliers! I thought this was an ingenious way to obtain really helpful, FREE advice and am certainly going to try it out, as well as following several more of the helpful hints set out in the book. This is a very readable, well set out, informative guide. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone else considering starting up a coffee shop.

Meet you at the Coffee Shop.
This is a very informative book, covering all the factul needs and probable pitfalls on starting a coffee shop. The writer has obviously researched deeply into this subject, before starting her own business. It covers all the points from business plans through the minefield of health and safety regulations and staffing issues.
The book is well set out and easily understood, and a must read for anyone thinking of starting out in this field.

A goldmine of expert tips and "How To" information
Having taken early retirement and considering a complete career change by opening a coffee shop in my home town,I found this book a gold mine of tips and advice some of which I had never considered in my initial plans. Thanks to this book and the authors comprehensive attention to every aspect of the business from location to mouth watering recipies ,I feel more confident about going ahead with my own project. Highly recommended .