Coffee Shop Startup Tool Introduction So you want to open a coffee shop?  The questions and concerns can be many, but the dreams and your passion can be so much more.  There are a variety of reasons you and other people get into the coffee shop business.  What ever your reasons are, and how many questions you have, this tool is designed to help you move through starting your coffee shop. This tool should answer your concerns and alleviate your worry by helping you ask the right questions and finding resources for the answers.  This area of CafeProducts.com can help you with a number of things including: organize your thoughts, put together funding strategies, overcome obstacles, figure out what equipment you need and even help you decide if this business is right for you. You will be able to use your questionnaire as a resource to provide key people in the industry  an opportunity to provide feedback and quotes. You can also use this startup resource tool as a prospectus for banking professionals, investors or grant funders. What Makes This Tool Special This area of our site allows you to publish information for people to see as you wish them to see it.  These pages come with tips, articles and additional resources as you fill in this form to help you make intelligent decisions along the way. This coffee shop start up resource tool can be viewed by people you choose, including the professionals that work with CafeProducts.com and other industry experts we team up with in order to give you feedback and product options upon your request. What This Tool Is Not This tool is not a complete business plan, it will only help you answer a number of questions that will help you fill one out with less difficulties. This tool is not a way to suck information from you so that we can send it to fly by night businesses to sell information to. No charge as of yet charge for this resource, and those that sign up now will be grand fathered in if we do start charging. NO credit, banking or personal information such as social security or tax information will be asked for. Register Now You can register now by clicking here to get started.

Below is a listing of recommended resources.  Some are free some you will need to purchase the product.  Please let us know what you think of the resources we recommend; both bad and good.  Just click on the link to either view or purchase the resource.

Recommended Resources

Recommended Advertising Resources and Books
The Food Service Professionals Guide to Restaurant Marketing & Advertising for Just a Few Dollars a Day - A book on inexpensive advertising and marketing techniques for restaurants.

Recommended Business Resources for Your Start Up
Palo Alto Business Plan Software - This is a huge resource for a coffee shop just starting out.  This is a direct link to a sample business plan for someone who is starting a coffee shop.  If you are still looking for financing a business plan is a must.  This is the software we use.

Recommended Resource Books for Opening a Coffee Shop
Business Plans for Dummies - The "For dummies" books really are helpful to make hard concepts easy.  This book will cover the usual things in developing a business plan, including developing a vision and mission statement.

Start and Run a Coffee Bar - This is a book our company has bought and enjoys using as a resource.  The best thing about this book is that it comes with a free cd to help with your marketing.

Making Your Own Gourmet Coffee Drinks - This is another book we have on our book shelf.  It gives you some great ideas on creating recipes that your customers will enjoy.  A must for newbies in this business.

FabJob Guide to Become a Coffee House Owner - This is a huge resource for a new coffee shop owner or one who wants to become more profitable.  There is a huge amount of information that will be indispensable as you open and maintain your coffee shop.

FabJob Guide to Become a Coffee House Owner Downloadable Version - This is the version we purchased and use as a resource.

How to Open a Financially Successful Coffee, Espresso & Tea Shop - Seems to be a good resource.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee Bar - If you are like me, that is you like things stated in simple english with tough concepts explained in easy terms, then this book is for you.

Coffee Shop & Espresso Cafe Mistakes - This is an e-book that you can actually get for free if you want to wait for each page to be sent to your email about daily, or pay for it and get a bunch of cool stuff.

ABOUT CAFEPRODUCTS.COM'S COFFEE SHOP PRODUCTS Who is CafeProducts.com? CafeProducts.com is a website that specializes in products and resources for coffee shops. We offer a unique way of doing business on the web offering strong product knowledge and offering great customer service. Besides our customer service we offer a complete database coffee shop equipment, and anything we don't currently carry we can help you find. A CafeProducts.com representative can also come out to your new or current location and help consult you on starting or enhancing your cafe, providing the coffee shop equipment and resources you need to make your coffee shop or small restaurant successful. What does CafeProducts.com do? We offer coffee shop equipment, cafe products, catering equipment, and restaurant equipment at competitive price. Our aim is to be your one stop shop for all your cafe equipment, products and supplies. We also provide resources for restaurant startups and current coffee shop – restaurant owners who want to strengthen their business. Our resources and products work hand in hand to get you up and running giving you an idea of what equipment you are going to need to start your café and links and resources to you your local health departments so you can pass your health inspections. From there we want to help you keep your café running giving you business, promotion and advertising resources. What does cafeproducts.com sell? We work hard to sell a complete selection of coffee shop equipment – restaurant products. Our website divided into a handful of main categories then with in those categories you will find a subsets of more categories; For example in our baking section you will find mixers, bread slicers, dough rounders, dough sheeters and baking ovens. Our sub categories even go deeper; in the baking ovens category for instance you will find subsections like microwave ovens, and convection ovens. In some of our other main categories you will find Beverage, Carts, Stands & Kiosk, Coffee & Hot Drinks, Display & Dispensers, Furniture & Décor, Ice & Refrigeration, Inside the Kitchen, Serving & Tableware and Sinks / Wash Basins. Some of the products we specialize in is our restaurant sinks both drop-in and standing specifically our three compartment sinks and hand sinks. We also have a good selection of coffee shop furniture and espresso and smoothie carts. Who does cafeproducts.com sell to? Our web site sells a variety of cafe products and restaurant equipment - supplies to cafes, espresso stands, ice cream parlors, caterers, lounges, hospitals, hotels, doughnut shops, coffee houses, coffee shops, bakeries, bagel shops, motels, truck stops, restaurants, churches and offices. Who does CafeProducts.com choose to work with? We choose only to identify ourselves with fine companies who have quality restaurant equipment and cafe products, with strong consumer ethics. Currently some of our manufacturers include Moli International, World Cuisine, Canplas, Cal-Mil, Amana, True, Thunderbird, Wilbur Curtis, Vita Mix, and Astoria Espresso Equipment. Can CafeProducts.com help you find something else? Browse through our website to find the cafe equipment and restaurant products you are looking for. If you find we don't have the cafe products listed on our site it does not mean we don't have it. Contact us for the products you are looking for.