Coffee!!

**Tom Milan** · 08-28-2008 12:10 PM

Huuuggge market for it here in Australia,

Although all coffee places seem the same to me nowdays, same cafe style, the only different ones are the mobile coffee making places, meh.

Either way i was thinking that with such a massive market, profits potential going through the roof, there had to be a more innovative way to operate a coffee making and/or sandwich bar business.

Something to do with a website, maybe something thats operated online, i havent figured it out yet but i thought if i start up a discussion, i wont forget about it like the billion of other business-related ideas that pass thru my mind.

So what do you guys think?

**johnwalton409** · 08-28-2008 02:22 PM

i went to Panama not too long ago and there's a huge market for coffee places there too. city like miami without any starbucks

i just moved from miami too

**chanson** · 08-28-2008 03:33 PM

Coffee is one of the biggest markets int he world actually, up there with Travel. Ive been thinking of opening a coffee website to sell coffee but havent found a good wholesaler yet. Anyone interested in partaking can pm me.. i always have open ears

**Will** · 08-29-2008 12:56 AM

Tom, do you mean selling coffee as in coffee beans or hot coffee? There is not such a market online to pre-order hot coffee really, as coffee is an impulse buy, people buy it when they want it (much of the time for the caffeine hit). Unless you made a website where businesses could sign up and place coffee orders for you to have ready for the next morning etc when a whole office arrives to work or something like that... though single coffees online is impractical

**Tom Milan** · 08-29-2008 11:07 AM

Yeah i mean hot coffee not the sale of the actual coffee beans,

and look at it this way, ive delved into 2 ways of working with coffee innovatively.

1. Serve it as a mobile service
2. Ordering Online to coorporate Companies

What i mean is:
1. this has been done before although i havent researched the success of this business, its more or less making a cart to serve coffees, that holds a coffee machine, something miniature compared to a cafe, and holds cups, sugar and maybe cookies to go with it. Place it in differen stops say for example outside a train station, in the mornings in peak hour, and then move it into the city where the coorporate market would be catered for.

2. I would make a website, and then face to face or online talk to middle scaled firms so that as you've mentioned above, order their coffee in the morning. This could include say 20 coffees p/company, which could potentially be quiet profitable as youd be going from one place to the otehr making the coffees.

these are the 2 ideas for the time being, which i think with such a booming market could be a great succees.

What you guys think?

**GhostFac3** · 08-29-2008 11:15 AM

Interesting take, but I think itll be more trouble in making it work than the benefit to you and your customers. Why not do a bit of both? Do it mobily, with better quality of coffee than everyone else. You have deliveries you need to make by X time, but then you are also posted up also. Kinda like Ice cream truck meets assistant running to get it. It keeps people at work and productive, but also meets people where they are.

Also, consider looking at a different variety of coffee than is the norm.. So maybe instead of columbian beans you only use malta beans, or something like that. Bring luxurious product, and great prices, to excellent customers.

**theprodigy101** · 08-29-2008 11:59 AM

Go to Amazon.com and type in starbucks...there's a multitude of books there that you can use to learn to build your coffee business.

**Tom Milan** · 09-06-2008 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Tom Milan

Yeah i mean hot coffee not the sale of the actual coffee beans,

and look at it this way, ive delved into 2 ways of working with coffee innovatively.

1. Serve it as a mobile service
2. Ordering Online to coorporate Companies

What i mean is:
1. this has been done before although i havent researched the success of this business, its more or less making a cart to serve coffees, that holds a coffee machine, something miniature compared to a cafe, and holds cups, sugar and maybe cookies to go with it. Place it in differen stops say for example outside a train station, in the mornings in peak hour, and then move it into the city where the coorporate market would be catered for.

2. I would make a website, and then face to face or online talk to middle scaled firms so that as you've mentioned above, order their coffee in the morning. This could include say 20 coffees p/company, which could potentially be quiet profitable as youd be going from one place to the otehr making the coffees.

these are the 2 ideas for the time being, which i think with such a booming market could be a great succees.

So scrap the second idea,
i thought about it n it would take too much time n not be worth the hassle

but the second idea, ive analyzed it with a few of my colleagues and theyve thought it was a great idea.

obviously thered be a need of a positioning strategy, and coffee would have to be top quality as i got informed that white collar workers buying coffee are quiet picky about their coffee, but in general..no overheads, no hassles, to me sounds like a good idea

what u guys think?