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Start a Coffee Shop – a growing business niche

Many people have had the idea to start a coffee shop as they want to get out of the rat race and have the security of their own business, rather than rely on other people to give them a job in such uncertain times.

The good news if you want to start a coffee shop is that it’s a market holding up very well in the recession. People still enjoy their small luxuries – in fact they enjoy them more, when big spending plans are out of the question. A cup of steaming, fresh, coffee in the morning falls slap bang into that category.

The primary factor in getting your own coffee house going is location. Should you choose to start a coffee shop it will mainly stand or fall by where you set up. Any potential location needs research, but that does not have to be expensive. Head into your town center, or shopping mall and do some people watching. Where do they naturally stop to look at a statue or spectacular building? When they go into work in the morning, what way does the traffic mainly flow? With a little thought, you will soon find yourself walking round instinctively eyeing up possible locations for your business.

Of course you will need other things to start a coffee shop. Make sure you check out planning rules and regulations. In my experience, most of the authorities are very helpful. They want new businesses and successful ones where they are. Some might even offer you advice on good people to consult about your business start up.

By using your own eyes and thinking ahead, you really can get a profitable business going at costs that are far from eye watering.

Head to Coffee Shop News to learn the secrets to slashing coffee shop start up costs and starting a new business. It’ll get you on the way to owning a coffee shop faster than you imagined.

About the Author

Rupert Trubshaw is a freelance journalist, writer and Cappuccino addict.

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That’s (Not Exactly) Amore $3.74 When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas, and two, Laini has to admit he’’s right–she’’s a disaster at design. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.

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That’s (Not Exactly) Amore $0.99 Used – When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas, and two, Laini has to admit he’s right–she’s a disaster at design. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.

That’s (Not Exactly) Amore $33.86 New – When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas, and two, Laini has to admit he’s right–she’s a disaster at design. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up.

That’s (Not Exactly) Amore (Drama Queens Series #3) $30.95 When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he’s right—she’s a disaster at design. Still, she can’t risk losing the job. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up. Their relationship is moving along, so when new guy Officer Mark Hall implies that Joe’s family is tied to the mob, Laini doesn’t want to believe it. But things spin out of control when she meets the family, including “the uncles,” who seem to confirm Mark’s suspicions. To make things worse, Nana Pantalone makes it clear Laini isn’t the kind of girl she has in mind for her grandson. Laini’s not sure if she should give Joe the benefit of the doubt or just set her sites on Mark and fuhgetaboutit.

That’s (Not Exactly) Amore (Drama Queens Series #3) $9.99 When Laini Sullivan lands a job designing Nick Pantalone’s coffee shop, there are two problems: one, Nick’s nephew Joe hates all of her ideas and two, Laini has to admit he’s right—she’s a disaster at design. Still, she can’t risk losing the job. To compromise, Joe brings in help on the project, while Laini continues to bake the goodies that keep his customers lining up. Their relationship is moving along, so when new guy Officer Mark Hall implies that Joe’s family is tied to the mob, Laini doesn’t want to believe it. But things spin out of control when she meets the family, including “the uncles,” who seem to confirm Mark’s suspicions. To make things worse, Nana Pantalone makes it clear Laini isn’t the kind of girl she has in mind for her grandson. Laini’s not sure if she should give Joe the benefit of the doubt or just set her sites on Mark and fuhgetaboutit.

The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week $13.95 A guide to living a creative life from 9 to 5 and beyond. Based on the hit handmade ‘zine, The Artist in the Office is an inspirational, interactive book for any artist living in the real world. It encourages small acts of creativity and a simple shift of perspective to help readers bring their artistic selves into the workplace and thrive in all aspects of their lives.Readers are prompted to undertake a wide range of liberating activities, from the mundane to the sublime, that won’t put their 9-to- 5 job at risk, including:•Take lunchtime adventures to rouse your spirit: a bookstore, a flower shop, or a park•Pick one ordinary object each day and take pictures every time you see it: coffee mugs, shoes, office plants•Get up an hour early or stay up an hour later and devote the time to your creative work. Schedule it in like any other mandatory appointment or meeting•Collect doodles from Post-Its or notebooks and reassemble them in a sketchbook

The People I Know $20 The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it’s Lorne, perched on a sofa as a wedding party swirls around him, or the elderly Mrs. R of “Morning at the Beach,” imagining a career in crime as she sits on the front porch of a Miami hotel, these are people oddly accustomed to the sidelines of their worlds.Nancy Zafris’s characters do not so much hurdle their barriers as contemplate them with varying degrees of humor, regret, and fanciful expectation. Gazing out of his window at a horizon of crushed cars, Bonner Junior fantasizes about working at an I.M. Pei office building instead of at John Bonner and Son Metal Shredders; at the same time, his job allows him to amuse his friends with grisly, embellished stories of human shreddings and wild dogs. In “Meeting in Tokyo,” a businessman examines his own attraction and aversion to conformity after taking a young secretary to a “love hotel.” For Wendy, born with a strong nose and a Baltic name, cosmetic surgery has brought acceptance but also boredom. Suffering little “deaths of feeling” with each success, she flirts with disaster, with anything that will make her heartbeat “go up to 75 or more.” Grace, in “Grace’s Reply,” prefers to deal with reality through illusion; she blames her son’s death on a Navy intelligence operation and sends Pampers to an imaginary grandson.Ranging from the kiddie bleachers of television’s “Uncle Sylvester Show” to the upholstered seats of a Tokyo coffee shop, from a Navy recruitment office to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, these stories enliven the common places of our world. Sad, yet rarely defeated, Nancy Zafris’s characters toe the line and sometimes manage to cross it.

The Secret Lives of Dresses $9.99 Dora has always taken the path of least resistance. She went to the college that offered her a scholarship, is majoring in “vagueness studies,” and wears whatever shows the least dirt. She falls into a job at the college coffee shop, and a crush on her flirty boss, Gary. Just when she’s about to test Gary’s feelings, Mimi, the grandmother who raised her, suffers a stroke. Dora rushes back home to Forsyth, NC, and finds herself running her grandmother’s vintage clothing store. The store has always been a fixture in Dora’s life; though she grew up more of a jeans-and-sweatshirt kind of girl, before she even knew how to write, Mimi taught her that a vintage 1920s dress could lift a woman’s spirit. While working there, Dora befriends Mimi’s adorable contractor, Conrad. Is he after Dora, or is working from a different blueprint? And why did Mimi start writing down—and giving away—stories of the dresses in her shop? When Mimi dies, Dora can’t get out of town fast enough and cedes control of the store to her money-hungry aunt who wants to turn it into a t-shirt shop for tourists. But ultimately, she returns to Forsyth, willing to battle whatever may stand in the way of her staying there. Dora can trade her boring clothes for vintage glamour, but can she trade her boring life for one she actually wants?

The Secret Lives of Dresses $0.99 Dora has always taken the path of least resistance. She went to the college that offered her a scholarship, is majoring in “vagueness studies,” and wears whatever shows the least dirt. She falls into a job at the college coffee shop, and a crush on her flirty boss, Gary. Just when she’s about to test Gary’s feelings, Mimi, the grandmother who raised her, suffers a stroke. Dora rushes back home to Forsyth, NC, and finds herself running her grandmother’s vintage clothing store. The store has always been a fixture in Dora’s life; though she grew up more of a jeans-and-sweatshirt kind of girl, before she even knew how to write, Mimi taught her that a vintage 1920s dress could lift a woman’s spirit. While working there, Dora befriends Mimi’s adorable contractor, Conrad. Is he after Dora, or is working from a different blueprint? And why did Mimi start writing down—and giving away—stories of the dresses in her shop? When Mimi dies, Dora can’t get out of town fast enough and cedes control of the store to her money-hungry aunt who wants to turn it into a t-shirt shop for tourists. But ultimately, she returns to Forsyth, willing to battle whatever may stand in the way of her staying there. Dora can trade her boring clothes for vintage glamour, but can she trade her boring life for one she actually wants?

The Sin Of Addison Hall $0.9 The SIN of Addison Hall is a story of a man fighting against his own human nature.In a country where beautiful people are considered superior, Addison Hall is an unappealing man who is forced by his country’s dictator to live in an unkempt apartment and toil in an unpleasant job. Save for the ridiculous antics of his friend Nigel and his disastrous attempts at finding romance, Addison’s life is dull. Then he meets Otka, a beautiful woman who owns the local coffee shop. After witnessing a chance encounter where Addison risks his life to save the life of a dog, Otka takes a liking to him. Addison is confused. She is attractive, he is not, why does she like him? His past experiences have taught him that women as beautiful as Otka give him attention only when they want something in return. What are her motives? The SIN of Addison Hall shatters the conventions of a traditional hero to create a gripping story that will stay with you long after you read it.

The Thieves of Manhattan $15 An aspiring writer with a low-paying day job at a coffee shop becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme to create a fake memoir of his own. Ian quickly realizes that fact and fiction can be dangerously intertwined.

You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression $16.95 Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11.”I’m very liberal and sometimes my friends say I’m giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up.”—Marc Schultz, reported to the FBI for reading an article called “Weapons of Mass Stupidity: Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator” while he stood in line at a coffee shopIn West Virginia, Renee Jensen put up a yard sign saying “Mr. Bush: You’re Fired.” She’s questioned by the Secret Service. In Alabama, Lynne Gobbell put a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on her car. She’s fired from her job. In Vermont, Tom Treece had his high school students write essays and make posters either defending or criticizing the Iraq War. After midnight, the police entered his classroom and took photos of the student artwork.The heated debates about the Patriot Act, about extensive registration and arrest programs for immigrants, and about domestic spying by the FBI, Pentagon, and National Security Agency have all been front-page news. But less understood are the effects of ramped-up national security policies on ordinary people across the country.In this hard-to-put-down book, Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, shows that post-9/11 America has entered a repressive age. Through dozens of engrossing and disturbing individual stories, You Have No Rights makes clear that America is now a country that is both less safe and less free.From You Have No Rights: Near Albany, New York, Stephen Downs went to a mall with his son Roger, and the two of them boughtshirts in a T-shirt shop. Downs put his shirt on, went to eat in the food court—and was arrested. The T-shirt’s message? “Peace on Earth.”