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Cafe Consulting
Concept to opening day, end to end.
Most cafes fail in the year after opening because nobody asked the right questions in the year before opening. We bring a thirty-cafe track record to your project so you sign the right lease, spec the right machine, hire the right barista and serve the right signature drink from day one.
- Catchment analysis with footfall counts at your specific site
- Equipment specification (espresso machine, grinders, filtration, water)
- Bar workflow design and ergonomic layout
- Menu engineering and pricing strategy
- Brand voice, signature drink development, naming
- Hiring brief and barista interview support
- Soft-opening playbook and first-month operations review
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Discovery (week 1)
We visit your site. We walk the catchment. We listen to your vision and your constraints. You get a written brief at the end.
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Spec and design (weeks 2 to 6)
Equipment list, supplier shortlist, bar layout drawings, menu first draft. You review and approve each piece before we move on.
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Build and stock (weeks 7 to 10)
We sit alongside the contractor, install the machine, configure water, train the team, source the opening inventory.
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Soft open and review (weeks 11 to 14)
Two weeks of staff-only service, then friends-and-family, then doors open. We are on site for the first week. Then a 30-day operations review.
- First-time cafe owners who want to skip the expensive mistakes
- Existing operators opening a second or third site
- Hotels and restaurant groups adding a serious coffee programme
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