Starting Your Own Coffee Shop: Opening & Running a Successful Coffee Business: 8 Paperback – Import, 23 February 2018

Such an amazing book for the beginner in coffee industry to understand how it work from inside out.this book cover everything equipment, marketing, cost, finance and design everything.

Great starting point for anyone who is thinking about maybe opening up and running a coffee shop one day. I thought the layout of the chapters were in a logical flow and I really enjoyed how the overall tone was positive and encouraging. I feel like too many writers and bloggers tend to write about their coffee business with the “don’t even think about until you’ve done this” attitude, instead of a more positive attitude. Simms does a good job at laying down the facts and giving a general overview of the many pieces that it takes to open and maintain a profitable business. She does not go into too much detail on the specifics of things, however, she gave me some great starting points for a myriad of helpful resources that at the very least, got my research heading in the right direction. I do wish though that there was a chapter on coffee sourcing and how to go about finding and choosing a wholesale seller and maybe some general guidelines on keeping / rotating a backstock for the beans specifically. Also, an “additional resources” section at the end that would offer more books and websites that the author might’ve found helpful in her research for the reader to use in continuing their research would be super helpful. Overall though, great book, the author offers a great overview of all the things that it takes to open and run a coffee shop. Quick read and would definitely recommend.Side note: The author’s description can read a little misleading. In the description it states “her short fiction is widely published” which could make it appear that this book is a work of fiction when it is not. Not a big deal really, I was just a little confused when I was initially looking into the book on Amazon is all.

Haven't read it all but so far so good. Lots of things in it that i never thought of.

J'avais acheté ce livre par curiosité, et parce que j'ai un petit projet de côté. Ayant moi même travaillé sur le sujet, ce livre m'a apporté une vision extérieure, orientée vers une activité spécifique : les coffe shops, ou comment transformer un projet, un rêve et un produit de commodité en quelque chose de viable.Bien que le livre soit en anglais, il est très facile à lire, à recommander pour toutes personnes ayant un projet entrepreneurial quel qu'il soit.

Bought as a gift. Arrived quich and it looked like a great, quick and easy to read guide on the subject.

I've always been working in finance and have zero experience in the coffee industry. Like many of us, I feel worn out at work and have developed a fantasy of making a living just sitting in my own little coffee shop and chill through the day with my lovely cat. After reading just the first few chapters, I realized that I am still really far away from that dream. I am seriously considering taking some coffee classes and boy, they are pretty costly. Definitely an eye opening book for me and I feel like I have a much better direction to work towards instead of just dreaming all the time. Very quick and easy read, very to the point with no useless materials to waste your time on. Highly recommended as a first book into the business! Of course you will need to read more books as you progress through your plans to get a more in depth understanding on the business. But this is definitely the perfect first book on the subject.