Posts made in April, 2016


The weird overlap between lists and life. A point-in-process reflection (aka. word vomit on this coffee shop journey): One year ago, we had no idea what we were getting into. Among other things, we wanted to bring speciality coffee into a suburb community and thus set out to start our own coffee shop. I started Dream|a|Latte for a few reasons, and one was to document this process. There are countless coffee shops out there,...

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We came up with a menu back when we wrote the Products & Services section of our business plan, but we’ve definitely made edits along the way as we’re getting closer to what we actually see ourselves serving. Even though it’s still not final, it feels so good to see it come together! During our research phases of visiting coffee shops and reading different coffee start up books, we got a range of ideas of how we...

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If you can’t already tell, I’m more of a thorough person. My [Coffee Shop] Business Plan series is a few posts long with detailed checklists for each section. But if you’re more like my husband and would rather skip the intensive business plan, that’s okay too! Did you know you can do a one-page lean business plan? I know right, why didn’t I tell you before? Some entrepreneurs would say a lean business...

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