Product Description

An A-to-Z guide to making it in your own specialty coffee business!

Expert tips, tricks, and a gold mine of crucial how-to information you just can't find anywhere else--learn how to:
* Get started in business for as little as $15,000
* Secure the optimum location
* Get the financing that best suits your goals
* Buy, use, and maintain equipment
* Find and deal with suppliers
* Market your espresso business with little or no capital
* Brew delicious, high-quality coffee drinks that keep customers coming back for more
* Hire and manage personnel
* And much more


Espresso! also arms you with sample business forms, leases, and contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations; sample menus; coffee drink recipes; inventory lists; plans and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools of the trade that no espresso entrepreneur should be without.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225230 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Publisher
Based on the authors' 25 years of experience in the specialty coffee industry, this outstanding guide details every step in the startup process including operational options (shop, free-standing cart, concession, add-on to another restaurant or food service), location, leases, landlords, marketing, menus and financing. Contains time-saving organizers such as sample lease and useful business forms; insider tips on shopping for supplies and equipment; checklists for planning, opening and daily operation; coffee drink recipes and a glossary of coffee terms.

From the Back Cover
An A-to-Z guide to making it in your own specialty coffee business!

Expert tips, tricks, and a gold mine of crucial how-to information you just can't find anywhere else—learn how to:

• Get started in business for as little as $15,000
• Secure the optimum location
• Get the financing that best suits your goals
• Buy, use, and maintain equipment
• Find and deal with suppliers
• Market your espresso business with little or no capital
• Brew delicious, high-quality coffee drinks that keep customers coming back for more
• Hire and manage personnel
• And much more

Espresso! also arms you with sample business forms, leases, and contracts; worksheets and checklists for planning, opening, and running day-to-day operations; sample menus; coffee drink recipes; inventory lists; plans and layouts; and dozens of other valuable, time-saving tools of the trade that no espresso entrepreneur should be without.

About the Author
JOE MONAGHAN is National Sales Manager for Espresso Specialists, Inc. He has also operated several espresso carts in Seattle, Washington.

JULIE SHELDON HUFFAKER is a freelance writer specializing in coffee-industry subjects. Her background includes working with Starbuck's Coffee Company on public relations and retail training.

Customer Reviews

specialty coffee
A great book for basic understanding of what it takes to start and run a successful coffee business.

Thinking about a Coffee Business??
This should be the title "Thinking about running a Coffee Business" I gave this 3 stars because it is very easy to read, straight to the point, does point out some warning signs.

If your already in the business then, forget it.

Very Helpful
My husband and I are business people but have never opened a coffee shop....the book was great!