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Permalink Reply by Matt B on March 3, 2011 at 6:32pm

John,

 

It's good to ask questions, but this one seems to indicate you need to work on a basic business plan. The amount of coffee you purchase for roasting will (on some level) be in direct correlation with the amount you plan to sell. How many drinks do you think you'll make each day? Twenty drinks (or whatever) per lb, and you're going to lose 18% (give or take) of weight post-roast. How's your cash flow? How much green can you afford to sit on? Is that coffee you really like still going to be there in two months? Two weeks? How much are you willing to pay in shipping costs for more frequent shipments? Know that importers generally won't break bags, which are 132-150 lbs. You can purchase great green coffee in smaller amounts from places like coffee shrub, but you're going to pay $1-2 more per lb, along with the considerable expense of UPS (instead of LTL) shipping prices. Etc. It all starts with figuring out how much coffee, and what kinds of coffee, you think your customers will purchase.

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Wray on March 3, 2011 at 6:38pm

Buy enough, but don't buy too much.

 

Vague questions deserve vague answers, sorry.

 

-bry

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Permalink Reply by Mike McGinness on March 3, 2011 at 6:39pm

Correction 132-154 lb not 150 per bag! (Like those 3 Oaxaca's in the shipment two weeks ago, da heavy suckers.)

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Permalink Reply by Matt B on March 3, 2011 at 7:20pm

Oaxacas doesn't have a possessive apostrophe. If we're gonna nitpick.

Mike McGinness said:

Correction 132-154 lb not 150 per bag! (Like those 3 Oaxaca's in the shipment two weeks ago, da heavy suckers.)

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Permalink Reply by Mike McGinness on March 3, 2011 at 7:29pm

Oops, got me! And can't roast an apostrophe anyway :)

Matt B said:

Oaxacas doesn't have a possessive apostrophe. If we're gonna nitpick.

Mike McGinness said:

Correction 132-154 lb not 150 per bag! (Like those 3 Oaxaca's in the shipment two weeks ago, da heavy suckers.)

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