You pull down the shutters of your rented premises with a smile implanted across your face as you reflect on the last six months. What a decision it was to take the small redundancy package on offer from a job that paid the bills but didn’t particularly thrill and go your own way.
Several friends questioned your decision, but you knew that you were drifting along, when you could be doing so much more with your life, and so it has proved. The right location came along at the perfect time for you to open a coffee shop where business is booming. Much of it you put down to finding the perfect coffee bean supplier for several reasons.
- Coffee shops and cafes are very fashionable, as you knew, having visited your favourite a couple of times a week for the last two years. They attract customers with disposable income who like to visit somewhere with a nice ambience and be around friends. The youth of today use cafes as second nature, thus guaranteeing continued support.
- Wanting to add that little bit extra that will attract those floating customers who will become your regulars, has been a winner. Offering them beans from exotic locations such as Colombia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Guatemala, or Peru has them chatting and taking a real interest as well as bringing other friends along.
- You have created the right atmosphere and offer fantastic customer service, even playing low volume ambient music from where the beans are sourced, which has been very popular. As has your attitude, with the additional advice on how to preserve a perfect smile.
- Knowing that you receive reliable deliveries has helped you relax and enjoy opening extended hours, because you don’t have to go rushing about using fuel and finding parking spaces when you can simply look online and make your order which is brought to your door.
- You owe your supplier a great debt of gratitude as you visited them for training from in-house barista champions, as you learned all about coffee so that you can pass on your new found knowledge to your customers, some of whom chat about visiting your café when out walking by the river. Success has been so great that you are taking on an employee who you will also send to your supplier to learn the art.
- As well as purchasing your coffee from the wonderful suppliers, you also bought your equipment from them, ensuring that you have the best tools at your disposal and customers are impressed when they first walk into your establishment.
- Your coffee is always fresh when it arrives from your supplier, whereas you have heard stories from elsewhere of those who buy beans from a supermarket, finding that they have become stale following extended periods sat on the shelf, which didn’t impress their customers.
Finding your perfect supplier who also helped train you and provide the latest equipment guarantees fresh coffee beans with the maximum choice for you to entice aficionados from far and wide.