@theventure: This guy went from selling fish tanks to building a $100 million coffee empire ☕💰 Back in 2014, Roland Horne is designing luxury aquariums for millionaires in London. Coffee isn't even his world; he's just a frustrated customer, tired of cafés with great beans but terrible service. Then he finds a strange little building up for lease. It's 266 square feet, nearly two hundred years old, and it was built for one job: sheltering the guards who watched the graveyard next door, because thieves kept digging up bodies to sell them. The rent is £5,000 a year and nobody else wants it, but Roland takes it anyway. ✓ Opens it alone after his partner quits before the work even starts, naming it WatchHouse after the hut ✓ Does the opposite of every chain: beautiful rooms, serious coffee, and staff who actually care ✓ Calls every new employee personally before their first day ✓ Wins over Londoners so fast one house becomes five, then ten, then New York Frustrated coffee customer → takes the tiny building nobody wanted → opens it solo → obsesses over service, not just beans → London falls in love → 28 houses and a $100M valuation. Sometimes the way to win a crowded market is caring about the part everyone else ignores. What overlooked detail could you obsess over that your whole industry treats as an afterthought? 🤔 #Business #WatchHouse #Coffee #Success #Entrepreneur @WatchHouse

Leon Jackson :

I’ve only had bad experiences at WatchHouse, terrible customer service

Simran✨ manifestation coach :

I love WatchHouse. Best coffee in London

TasteIsART :

You can feel the intention when you visit

kofi :

Is coffee that valuable?! 28 stores worth $100 million?!

Terence C :

But the seating looks so uncomfortable

Woofie :

never heard of when I spent a lot of time in london

drifting away :

What makes it stand out compared to a regular coffee shop or even star bucks ?

Bruce (Baruch) Gotfried :

Great story 👍🏻

CONFUSIOUS *_* :

amazing

Jack :

Yes it's ALWAYS about the service ! It's the do unto others thing

Life With Layers | The Calm OS :

the ones who take the space nobody else wants are usually the ones building something nobody else can copy 🖤

️Nikki :

Their service is amazing. I didn’t go for a few months and when I did they asked where I was 😭❤️

Business Debt Expert - MCA's :

$100m for 28 coffee shops?

𝕽𝖆𝖞 𝕬𝖘𝖍𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊 :

What’s so special about this coffee shop?

HelenI :

Excellent matcha and very friendly staff, worth it

aquapro.moz :

I sell fish tanks, already on a good path… 😅

i_am_richardgreen :

abit of a odd name for a coffee shop

Nour :

The dream!

j :

WatchHouse have great pastries and the breakfast is also great

Dimitris C. Milionis :

Ripaie Zain :

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Still don’t understand the hype of watchhouse

teepee :

for 1 success there are a thousands coffee shop that went bankrupt

Entropyy :

copy paste Sturbucks

S’morePieBackup :

Goals. If I could just catch a break like that.