A coffee cart is one of the most accessible entry points into coffee entrepreneurship available right now. Compared to a coffee truck ($35,000 to $100,000) or a traditional brick-and-mortar shop ($300,000 to $625,000 for a 1,500-square-foot space), a quality cart business can come together for a $7,500 to $15,000 all-in startup investment. With no long-term lease or build-out, a cart offers the freedom to move, experiment, and grow at your own pace.
For small businesses, it feels like no amount of marketing can ever be enough. More social posts, more reviews, more events! If you feel like you’ve tried every creative way to drive foot traffic through your doors, we’ve got an alternative solution for you: coffee.
Picture a trip to the book shop, the garden center, the car wash, the gym, or the hair salon. What would make each one just a little better?
Texas Coffee School Celebrates Women Owned Coffee Businesses
Every March, we celebrate Women’s History Month and the women in our industry driving growth and evolution. This year, the impact women are making in specialty coffee feels especially tangible.
Despite hurdles that have made ownership and leadership challenging, the numbers of women opening coffee businesses are surging. We see this in the data, and we see this in our classroom.
This month, Texas Coffee School turns 16. That’s a fully licensed-driver of creating, refining, and elevating our coffee business education programs.
Our own journey as a small business has been anything but a straight road. As entrepreneurs, we know that every phase of business comes with unique challenges–from idea to start up to growing through hurdles. “How can we possibly make this work?” is a question we gotten to know intimately through the past 16 years.
When Debbie and Derek Peris moved their coffee roastery from Washington all the way to a small town in Louisiana, they had no idea that the coffee shop they would soon open there would land them in Travel and Leisure.
Now, two and a half years after opening Brick Street Coffee in a renovated hardware store, Debbie knows that the cross-country move and long renovation were all worth it.