Still going through some lease negotiations.
In the meantime I thought I'd post some insider dealings when starting up a new store.

There's a lot of things to take into consideration when creating a new coffee establishment. Probably the most haunting thing is if the store concept will work. Most of the statistical data generalizes coffeeshops under the restaurant umbrella. When that data gets refined to just coffee, you still have it describing multiple models.

What helped me a lot was reading actual stories of success and failures to make more sense of the numbers.

Here are some stories that I can relate to. Learning from other peoples mistakes might help the rest of the coffee community.

Coffeehouse nightmare

coffee owner stories

Coffee Industry people