Hello Everyone,
I have signed up with this site about a year ago with hopes of learning something and maybe even contributing something later on, when I have something to contribute. I have found out since that being cafe owner is rather demanding job and so I got to this now... better late than never I guess...
So, me and my girlfriend/soon-to-be-wife have opened a cafe almost a year ago in this small town called Roznov in Czech republic. We had some experience with the business, looking back it was nearly none actually. You can check out FB page over here (not best FB page by far, I know):
We have been operating for almost a year now, my girlfriend (guess her name:-)) is working there full time, I help when I can (I have my own job) and provide additional support (supplies, maintenance etc.), we had one employee but found out we cannot afford her, so now she helps out when necessary. We have 5 tables, 2x4, 1x3 and 2x2 chairs. The cafe is mostly able to sustain itself financially, however that is about it. I personally believe (but that might be subjective) that we provide best service in town for reasonable price (for the area), however we seem to fail to attract sufficient number of customers.
So this is mainly my purpose here now, I hope to pick up some ideas on improving our business because I am running out of them fast. I realize that those are mostly hard-earned and not to be shared, but if you feel like sharing some barista wisdom that would help us there is no way to describe how grateful I would be.
Well, it is late and I am spent, tomorrow I will try to describe our menu somewhat to give a better idea of what we do...
Have a nice day
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