Carts and kiosks profitability: fill a niche.(specialty coffee industry)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, November, 2004 by Heyer, Christopher

As each year passes, the specialty coffee industry becomes bigger and better. Like the coffee shop segment, cart and kiosk businesses are thriving from coast-to-coast. Robert Burgess, specialty coffee industry analyst and leading manufacturer and seller of carts through Burgess Enterprises located in Seattle, Washington, observes that cart mobility offers too many golden profit location opportunities for them to ever fade away.

Fully self-contained cart units are particularly valuable in high customer traffic locations where an operation can't be hard plumbed. The key to any specialty coffee venture is finding a location that will produce high-volume specialty coffee sales. What you need is a lot of people who find your location a convenient place to drink...

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