Having a local coffee shops on my Airbnb homes is one cool dream that I always working at since I investing my money on hospitality business. I know that having a $15,000 of bankruptcy back in 10 years ago is a bad experience but I still want to try investing my photographer’s fee into some other business that still rely with my passion.
What I concern is, I could lose my money twice if today I’m failed but why I choose to start over is because my wedding photography business should think for the future investment. I will not retire as a wedding photographer because I feel good for every session that I have but good improvement will means something for the future for sure.
Become a professional wedding photographer is one great gift that God gaves to me and I know I’ve been so blessed for being trusted but various humble couple in this globe. Both photography and hospitality is about services so once I put my self on this business than I will push my self to learn more about satisfaction so in a simple words,
Hospitality will teach me a lot about how to serve people beyond expectation and deliver the best satisfaction to them!
Hi lovely people my name is Bima and here in this post I will telling you about another part of my wedding photographer life where I investing my time and money to built a local coffee shops, hope you enjoy!
Why I Love for Built a Local Coffee Shops on My Home Terrace?
When I open room for Airbnb in 2013 and able to build up to 3 properties I always spend a good time during my off session, so when I have a guest in my house than I will happily to cook for their breakfast with my own.
It is totally simple meal that everyone can do, so what I’m doing is making quick and easy food based on what Jamie Oliver said and serve it to my guest just within 10 minutes. When I cook heir breakfast over and over again than I start to think how about to make my guests more enjoy by serving good coffee in the morning, I think its brilliant even only serve them with a classic moka pot.
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Lately I run a small local coffee shops called Sapulu Coffee right in the terrace of my house that could serve for 20 people. Not so many, but I sure that I could provide fresh coffee for my guest in every morning while enjoying smooth morning jazz with my Harman Kardon Onyx.
3 Good Things About Having Local Coffee Shops on Your Home
From the bankruptcy of $15000 till earning over than $5000 cash monthly from my airbnb property and local coffee shops on home terrace than I will telling you about 3 good things about having a small cafe on your home.
1 – It Gives Personal Touch to Your Guest
When you love cooking and deliver more love to your guest than having a local coffee shops which can provide simple meals and fast beverages is an advantages. Especially if you run a hospitality business just like me than brewing a fresh ground coffee every morning will give a good ambiance to all your guest in the lovely morning. When you do it consistently than they will smell a good coffee in the morning and giving them a spirit to start their day for sure.
2 – It Gives Your Guest a Place to Chill Out
When you have small cafe in your hospitality building than sometimes you will find some guest who don’t want to go anywhere during a day, so what they do is wake up, get a coffee, and read some books for all day long. So true that having this local coffee shops will give your guest a chance for having a nice chill out when they just want to stay home.
3 – It Gives You More Income
Having another business following the first one will definitely deliver more income into your bank account. The benefit of having this local coffee shops on my home terrace is I can sell a coffee both to my guest and to any people who passing by my home. They might sit for little while here in my terrace or simply wait for 3 minutes when my barista make a fresh cappuccino in a take away cup.
Now you may see how I spend a good morning by preparing my coffee shops together with my family during off session,
Starting Local Coffee Shops Business is a Tough Job
I’m not going to say that starting local coffee shops business is a simple thing because you may think for every single details right from buying the beans till clean up your cafe. During this time I got 2 full time barista and 2 part timer barista and they help and teach me a lot about running this cafe properly.
What I believe today is I must have a good daily cash flow so I must selling more and more coffee every single day so what I’m concern with is not the best espresso machine but maintaining the system and let the marketings goes well. Creating good system which can be run even you don’t stand by right in front of your guests is extremely important so if you gonna run a cafe that open daily even in a national holiday than let me share you some few things about it:
Always Look at Your Market
Saying a hot white is quite difficult in my town cause people will know as well about hot latte or hot cappuccino so even I already paid a coffee consultant for $2500 but I choose to look at my local market cause this is where my money will come from
Get Your Beans from ‘Consistent’ Supplier
For a coffee drinker than chosen beans is truly important even they can feel the beans is good or not so having a super consistent coffee supplier is really important comparing you got superb number 1 bean in the world but supplied from un-professioonal supplier.
Make It Clean and Homy
Always sweep your floor many many times even I don’t wanna see a dry leaves falling into my floor and when I saw there is a dirty part from the coffee drop than I will take my microfiber mop floor cleaning.
Set the Music On
I use Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 4 to play the music on spotify and even I love classic rock better than other genre but I always set the music on that related to coffeeshop company.
Love Your Barista Over Than Just an Employee
Once a month I close my cafe for 4 hours and took all my barista to some local restaurants or even city park where we can refresh our mind and soul, surely we made some notification on my rustic stained vintaged signage to our guest before we leave and we let them know what time we gonna come back.
7 Things That You Need to Buy for Run a Small Coffeeshop Company
Run a coffeeshop company will take you in a big investment, surely you can make a good espresso with manual tools like Bialetti 06800 moka pot but if you got couple of order lists than this tools will take more time. On this part I’m going to share 7 basic things that you must need to run a small cafe business.
1 – Single Group Espresso Machine
As I said on my previous post, if you want to make a coffee for your self than using Moka Pot is highly recommended and if you never use this tools than read my story about 5 simple steps to make a great coffee with Moka Pot. When I starting local coffee shops business than I choose to buy a single group of espresso machine called La Marzocco Linea Mini that cost around $4700 but if you want to buy cheaper espresso machine than I could suggest you few brand that provide single group of porta filter such as:
2 – Grinder
Starting local coffee shops business doesn’t mean you have to buy big tools, here in my Airbnb house I serve only 20 people maximum in one time so what I need is small good grinder that able to proceed all the beans in a good way. No matter what kind of grinder that you gonna buy than make sure there is a grinder setting that allow you to choose your beans fineness, it will affect to your decision like what kind of coffee that you wanna serve, it can be an espresso base and milk like latte or may be the single origin menu for hard coffee drinker.
If you wanna buy good grinder for your cafe than I could recommend several reliable brands such as:
3 – Scale
This kind of things is really important and essentials cause you must make standard operating procedure about how mush is the weight your beans is for serving a cup of coffee. Here in my coffeeshop company called Sapulu Coffee we serve about 15 to 17 grams of beans for cup of coffee and brew it for 20 to 25 seconds.
There are various of beans scale that you can buy and I could suggest you few brands such as:
4 – Porcelain Mug
There various of cups that you can buy to serve your coffee, from the one who come in flat white colour till another one who comes with various fresh colour that bring your cafe more attractive. Take a look for these several options below:
5 – Milk Pitcher
This kind of milk pitcher also called as milk jug and use for steam the milk and make a good foam for your cappuccino. There are various of brands of stainless pitcher and there are:
6 – V60 Dripper
This kind of tools is important and it’s called tamper, you need to use this to make all the grind coffee flat and tight in your porta filter before brew it. You can consider some brands such as:
7 – Knock Box
Having knock box is important even you can throw your coffee dust on the bin but it takes distances for ergonomic barista body. I use stainless knock box on my bar with a knock covered with rubber so it reduce the noise when you knock the porta filter.
Several brands that you can consider are:
Even there are still various tools that you might need for starting local coffee shops business but these 7 tools is the basic thing so you always can serve great coffee for your guest. I hope you inspire for what I share today and you able to start your business as soon as possible, thank you for keep in touch with me and get a joy of making great coffee for your own!