Hey guys,
At the moment we have a small cafe with a roaster and are just roasting enough for us and some extra that we sell to our customers. We want to move away from the cafe/food/craziness and go into more of the roasting and wholesale side of things.
Currently we are aiming for a little warehouse/garage type place to roast out of, supplying our old cafe (we'll take the roaster from there) and this new place, as well as a few other cafes/bars. However, we have some questions about how the best way to go about supplying new customers is. Is it better to supply them with a brand spankin new coffee machine and give them a contract when we start supplying them, thus maybe investing around 10k in each new customer? Or are second hand machines or no machines at all a better way to go?
We also want to have a small selection of retail items in our new place, we were thinking a top end and a bottom end home coffee machine and grinder, as well as some kitchen type gadgets. Has anyone got a place like this and if so, what sells best!?
If anyone has done this before we'd love to hear some pointers of the best way to go about doing it, any help is appreciated!
Stevie
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