Recent content by 13 Bean

Sounds like you're a few steps ahead of me in opening your shop, but I would suggest you open up your website sooner rather than later. We've picked a name, and as soon as we've designed our logo, we're going to at least put up a professional "coming soon" splash page. Why not? Registering a...

Seems like there's lots of introductions going on and no replies. So, I'm not exactly a long-time member here, but... Hi, Yuriy! Welcome to the forums! Hello, Coffeenote! Good to have you here!

Hi everyone; You're not terribly surprised to hear I'm in the beginning stages of opening my cafe, are you? I'm guessing you may have heard that around here once or twice before... :wink: Anyway, yes I am. And I'm very grateful to have coffeeforums as a resource. I have pages of material to...

Hello, everyone. Scott here, from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. My wife and I are in the beginning of our looong quest to open our cafe. I'm interested in meeting conneseurs, probably asking for a lot of advice... and hopefully I'll someday reach a point where I have some of my own insight...

Re: your website Ditto, sorry. Maybe you should have a welcome page with options for high- and low- bandwith versions of the site?

Thanks for your thoughts, everyone. From what I've read so far, I was given the impression that it's very unlikely a startup business can obtain a bank loan even with the help of the SBA (High risk for the bank compared to the expected return on investment, etc). Bias of the authors or outdated...

Hello everybody; My wife and I have been kicking around the idea of opening a coffee house for the last eight months or so. We recently attended Coffee Fest and have since kicked our research into high gear. We''re developing a business plan, learning about coffee and tea, checking out the...