Good morning. My name is Fred. My wife and I are thinking about opening a West Coast/San Francisco style coffee house/café in our home town in Kentucky. It is a small town on the banks of the Ohio River. By joining this forum, I am hoping to get some guidance in collecting enough of the right information to do a feasibility analysis. The analysis needs to be able to be pretty accurate on all of the start-up costs as well as the operational costs/revenues. I have already collected a lot of information (demographics, traffic rates, etc...) The concept for the coffee house is to create a coffee house/café in one of our older buildings in the downtown area. The interior will need to be warm and relaxing. A place where people can come in and enjoy having coffee with friends and family. I have lived in the West several times including Corvallis, OR, Washington state (east and west), and western Nevada about 3 1/2 hours from San Francisco (our favorite city). We want to create a coffee house/café here in the Ohio River valley that brings in that West Coast coffee house vibe. We want to be able to allow area artists a venue for their work. We want to serve coffee grown in a sustainable manner and is fair trade and is either locally or regionally roasted in small batches.
