@nicholewischoff: 👇 Everyone dreams of owning a cute little coffee shop. But should you? 💰 The goal: $150K/year take-home = $12,500/month in cash flow 📊 What you'd need in sales: $58K–$92K per month depending on the model 📉 Annually that's $697K to $1.1M in revenue... just to pay yourself 💸 And the build alone costs $400K–600K per location ⚠️ 60% of coffee shops fail #startupbusiness #costs #founder #coffeeshop
Your average ticket is way off. Bakery/cafe with an $8 average is incorrect. It will mostly be in the $13-$15 area. On the weekends (Fri-Sun) it will be $18-$21. How did you get your numbers?
2026-09-06 04:52:55
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Bria :
I love this series
2026-09-05 23:37:24
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Bonnie Jo :
I don’t understand why more coffee shops don’t do something at night. A dance studio or brewery would be a good partnership
2026-09-06 17:11:33
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mikecbetts :
Love these breakdowns!
2026-09-06 18:37:44
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MelAquarius1977 :
Would love more of these examples!!
2026-09-06 16:29:49
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stillbirthmom :
Wrong market. Our coffee shops with a drive through in TX do 1.5 to 2.5 million in a grocery anchored shopping center. Labor is low teens
2026-09-06 14:07:03
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test_net :
retail is impossible, ppl need to stop overvaluing their rental properties. Landlords r pricing rental as if they r the core component that does all the production
2026-09-05 17:36:58
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Creatine Price :
I was a coffee consultant for 4 years in the city, helped open 15 different cafes and get them started with education/training/bakery and roasters. Most of them end up SQUASHED by rent and labor- and EQUIPMENT. Sales are all over the place, a place like stumptown in the west village has 1500 transactions a day. - the money is in building a Roastery.
2026-09-06 08:01:34
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Hope💕 :
Love this series
2026-09-06 14:22:46
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Blushqueen :
Did you see the guy on here that started a coffee shop and said that he made more money from the claw machine than the actual coffee?! Wild!
2026-09-06 02:25:05
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Eric :
Do a pick and mix candy store!
2026-09-06 12:14:15
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BUNNYONOMICS 🌟 :
I love this series 🥰
2026-09-06 17:07:06
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DraxtonLaw | Creator Counsel :
What are you editing with now?!? You’re cooking. Content has always been great; new visuals are helping.
2026-09-06 11:15:25
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Tom :
As a smaller cafe owner I think the only number that felt off was the average ticket price. Most places should have at least a $10 avg ticket price on slow days & $15-$17 on weekends. Especially in nyc where a basic drink could easily be more than $7 itself. Love this series though!
2026-09-06 01:38:05
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LuzyChats :
Wow I loved this video!
2026-09-05 23:05:23
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CHIVANADA :
I’m in food trucks, we’re up to 3 units now along with some wholesale into stadium/concession. We can hit about $250-$350k per unit. Not bad at all, and capEx is about $50k per unit. The downside is it comes with a lot of event commission splits and maintenance costs.
2026-09-05 17:44:56
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Partskim :
Love these new series. 60% fail is wild. Ive always wanted to open shop and work my W2 out of an office in back. Then i could keep the golden handcuffs and have a direct line to wholesale coffee. 😂😂
2026-09-05 22:52:48
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Neysa :
I’ve been seeing a lot of coffee shop owners speak out the numbers and many of them do well over $2 million per year. I think things are shifting and they’re finding creative ways to increase average ticket
2026-09-06 15:25:42
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pooh :
Love the series. I want to learn how you think.
2026-09-06 06:03:49
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choco :
What is the best retail business to open? I don’t see how any retail shops make enough to make it worthwhile.
2026-09-06 06:53:23
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wali.kamal :
Would love to see this about climbing gyms (some decent sized vc/pe transactions in recent years) or fitness centers more broadly. It’s a tricky equation to balance real estate/capacity economics with steady member growth/retention
2026-09-05 22:57:46
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Sean Sinko :
Soooo interesting. Can you do a vintage store
2026-09-06 08:55:41
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FlightInsight :
Wow I love this idea. As a business owner I’m constantly wondering about the economics and plumbing of other businesses. I think you’re uniquely suited to do these deep dives. Hope you keep it up!
2026-09-06 12:15:59
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Rachel :
This series is everything, so good
2026-09-06 15:23:09
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Natalia :
The money is in the rent. Rent sucks up any opportunity for potential profit, it’s wildly out of control.
2026-09-06 11:45:47
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