Starting a Coffee / Food Stand

>>1649802
>small town
How small? I think some basic market research will tell you how small you can go before a coffee stand won't fly. I've seen the coffee shack and drive through is key to operation, possibly not seating at all except maybe an outside picnic table for nice weather days. Business license and also go high end coffee, get a few fancy machines and the hottest girl you can find to work the booth.

>>1649819
~2,500 people

I figure 15 costumers a day makes it worthwhile, which I believe is doable considering the regions need for something like this.

Definitely looking for low overhead, no seating except like what you mentioned.

>>1649823
certainly going to be drive through accessible, aiming to sell many to-go driver friendly foods too.

can you expand a bit on the business licenses?

>>1649802
Make sure you get a permit from the town hall, it's illegal otherwise.

I'd start away from anything food or beverage. These types of businesses have the worst success stats.

>>1649802
Do you really wanna stand in a gazebo all day selling coffee and donuts in a gravel lot?

It's going to be shit work, probably tiny gross.

>>1650308
It is when the market is saturated, but if OP is the only game in town it might work.

Like another anon said, how small does a town have to be to be at a dead end road? Do people with money routinely commute to work out of town?

OP what country you in?

I seriously doubt that 15 customers a day makes your idea worthwhile, you'll have to pay for kitchen equipment ( a serious coffee machine isn't cheap)
if you are doing the building, that also won't be cheap.

talk to your local town government, they will be able to tell you what you'll have to spend on licensing, permits etc.

>>1650339
That's funny, I lived in a town with about 2500 people and it had a coffee shop but went out of biz a year after I got there, not sure how long it was up before that. I think people just started drinking the gas station coffee. Then again it sold muffins, breakfast sandwiches and other perishables. Straight up coffee shack with low over head might work but food / beverage biz is brutal no question. I know one in another town of 5000 that works, just a shack but no real competition, really good coffee and on a highway that cuts through the town.

It's very hard work and you will most likely fail

>>1650460
Yeah a gas station that sold good coffee and microwave burritos would be better if no other such business was in town.

I knew a tiny, dead end town called Ceder Keys Florida that had no gas station but had like 4 sea food restaurants.

>>1649802
Maybe a shed with some vending machines might be a better idea.

One that sells coffee, another with some packaged pastry and other snacks, and a picnic table next to it.