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Winding Up A Company

In these hard economic times business is very hard. If you are a company director looking for a bit of advice because your coffee shop business is struggling, you have come to the right place. I have created many articles which try to help a director take the right steps in either closing or liquidating a business or pre-packing a sale and starting again.

Firstly if your coffee shop company is insolvent you have a duty as a director to close the company and not incur any further debt, unless you can be pretty sure that you can put in place a rescue plan to turn that business around. If you can’t them you need to liquidate the company yourself or take professional advice on how best to close the business in an orderly fashion.

By far the most popular choice is to engage an insolvency practitioner to call a meeting of creditors on your behalf, prepare the statement of affairs, hold the meeting and then deal with all the procedural aspects of liquidation necessary to make sure all creditors now what is going on and how they can participate in any dividend. This is called a CVL or creditors voluntary liquidation.

There is a fee for all this and generally it will be about £5000 whoever you use around the country. There are some advertisements for liquidations at less than this but by the time all costs are accounted for, it will still come in at about the same sum.

These costs can come out of the assets of the coffee shop company and indeed many businesses do have just enough assets or cash to take this final step. For many businesses, the central core of what the business does is still profitable and so often directors will want to continue to trade. This is easily possible and a sale of assets can be arranged to a new company and a lease re-assigned by a landlord, which often leaves the new company trading on in the same line of work from the same premises.

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The explosive growth of the coffee shops across the country has been phenomenal. Few people realize coffee is now the largest food import to the United States. There is money to be made on those beans. Here is the manual you need to cash in on this highly profitable segment of the food service industry. This new book is a comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of the specialty coffee and beverage shop. This superb manual should be studied by anyone investigating the opportunities

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Marketing Plan for a Coffee Shop

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Professional Athletes and Outdoorsmen Find Increased Energy and Vigor From New Instant Healthy Coffee Beverages Ten Times More Powerful Than Ginseng

(PRWEB) November 16, 2005

Cupofmoney.com, an affiliate of Gano Excel, announced today that their new instant healthy coffee beverages are becoming extremely popular with professional athletes, boxers, body builders, sports activists, outdoorsmen and campers.

Each of the company’s products are individually and neatly packed in small sachets making them great for travel and outdoor events. Outdoorsmen find these healthy beverage sachets convenient for fishing, camping and hiking, while sports enthusiasts find them convenient anytime they need an instant boost of energy. By simply adding hot water, the beverages can be enjoyed at the gym, at a baseball game, or even on the top of a mountain.

Professional athletes and boxers enjoy the health benefits of the active ingredient in these beverages, known as ganoderma lucidum, the miraculous king of herbs, and is said to be ten times more powerful than Ginseng. This active ingredient helps the body heal faster and can dramatically increase recovery times during training. Ganoderma acts as an immune booster and helps the body fight disease the way nature intended.

Ganoderma Lucidum (the natural substance in all of Gano Excel’s products) is said to help enhance health by removing toxins from the body and then building up the body’s immune system.

Ganoderma Lucidum is the scientific name for a species of Red Mushrooms and is said to be more powerful than Ginseng. Known as the “Miraculous King of Herbs,” Ganoderma (also known as Lingzhi in China, Reishi in Japan, and Youngchi in Korea) is listed as a Superior Herb in Sheng Nong’s Pharmacopeia, an ancient Chinese Herbal Text dating back over 2,000 years.

Gano Excel is a global company with corporate headquarters in Malaysia, and operations and offices in 21 countries and growing. Founded in 1995, Gano Excel has over one million consumers and Independent Distributors worldwide. Gano Excel (USA) maintains office and warehouse facilities in California. Gano Excel (Canada) maintains office and warehouse facilities in Richmond, B.C.

With the rising number of health conscious baby boomers looking to enjoy healthier and more balanced lifestyles, the company’s new gourmet healthy coffee is rapidly replacing regular coffee in households across North America.

The company has adopted an affordable gourmet healthy coffee franchise concept where entrepreneurs can start their own home based gourmet healthy coffee franchise for as little as $ 1000. They can retail the products, set up additional sales teams across North America, and market products through an online store that will be available to a total of 100 countries within the next 5 years. The company’s “direct to door” shipping elimates the huge overhead and inventory expenses that are required to run conventional coffee shops.

Many franchise owners are already experiencing sales that are exceeding $ 10,000 per day. Over the past 22 months over 50,000 entrepreneurs in North America have opened home based gourmet healthy coffee franchises. They are each positioning themselves to capitalize on the company’s expansion into a total of 100 countries by the year 2010.

Here are some coffee industry facts:

Coffee is the second largest commodity in the world — next to oil.

Starbucks buys over 100 million pounds of coffee each year.

2.4 billion pounds of coffee are sold per year in the United States.

The United States is the world’s largest consumer of coffee.

The entire U.S. population consumes more than 500 million cups a day.

A typical cup of coffee contains approximately 138 mg of caffeine. The unique blend of ganoderma in this product neutralizes the caffeine dramatically to only 9 mg per cup, but still provides that “lift” and boost in energy that coffee drinkers are looking for, but without the caffeine jitters.

Cupofmoney.com provides online ordering and direct to door delivery for their entire line of products. Simply log-on to www.cupofmoney.com; click on shop, click on general and choose from the companies list of healthy beverages: mocha, classic, 3 in 1, tea, or even hot chocolate.

Customers that register for the company’s autoship program can experience substantial discounts off of retail pricing, in addition to every 7th order being free.

To find out how you can open a home based healthy coffee franchise in your area, visit www.cupofmoney.com or contact Darren Little at 604-771-1901. For a brief overview of the business call 1-512-404-1228. Listen to boxes 2 and 4.

About Cupofmoney.com:

Cupofmoney.com markets a variety of products which contain the life changing, life enhancing ingredient Ganoderma Lucidum, including the world’s first healthy coffee. Ganoderma is known as “the miraculous king of herbs” and provides an extensive list of health benefits including increased energy and vigor. Ganoderma has history dating back in the Oriental culture for over 2,000 years and is more powerful than Ginseng. The world’s first healthy coffee is now available online. Distributor inquiries are welcome at www.cupofmoney.com.

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As a successful businessman with many years experience of running a shop fitting company and setting up and running coffee shops, Don Clarke knows the two most important factors for a successful shop are location, location, location and staff.

With regard to managing staff, Don quickly realized something that was contradictory to accepted beliefs: the customer does not come first – your staff should come first! If your employees are happy, then they will give excellent service to your customers, and your customers will be happy. So, it is worth taking note of the following points:

1. Teach your staff how to handle difficult situations. If you observe them handling a difficult situation badly, do not criticize. Tell them “I don’t know how I would have dealt with that problem – I’ll need to think about it”

2. Treat your staff with courtesy and respect. They will usually give the same in return.

3. Discuss your training requirements with your supervisors before you begin to train your staff, so that your management structure is cohesive and working towards the same goals.

4. Set weekly or monthly training sessions. Use these sessions to highlight strengths and weaknesses of your staff, and ask your staff if there are any points they wish to raise.

5. NEVER reprimand any member of staff in front of other staff or customers. If you have a complaint with their work, discuss this in private.

6. If you have a problem with a member of staff, raise the problem you wish to discuss and finish with praise. If you manage your staff with tact, they will listen to your complaint without resentment.

7. Finally, remember – you are creating a team, without your team you do not have a business.

With regard to the location of a coffee shop, many people overlook this starting point. They look for a shop that will cost them the least rent and tell themselves that their shop will be run so well that people will flock to it. But remember, consumers are fickle! And lazy! If your shop is not in the right place, whatever you do and whatever you offer, your business will be limited by its location.

So, don’t commit yourself to any premises until you know how many people will pass by your shop each day. You will be investing a huge amount of your time and money into your new business and you really won’t want it to fail. Put aside as much time as possible to find the best position for your shop. Take a clipboard and stand outside a popular coffee shop – count how many people walk past the shop and how many stop for a coffee. Do this at different times of the day, and different days of the week. Take a note of the nearby shops that are attracting shoppers – you need your coffee shop to be convenient for people who “shop ’til they drop” and then need refreshment.

On average, customers tend to spend around £4 a head in a coffee shop, perhaps slightly more in expensive areas. You can use this as a basis to work out how many customers you will need per day to cover your costs and make a profit. So, if your operating costs, which will include repayment of setting up costs, wages, food, utility bills and last, but not least, profits, require you to make £3500 per week, you will need at least 125 people per day spending a minimum of £4 each, to give you the £500 needed per day, based on a 7 day working week.

So remember – do the maths first and foremost and make sure your shop is in a location where it will have enough passing trade to cover your costs. Treat your staff well and you are on the way to turning coffee into gold!

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Original or bust! Copy-catting design may seem like a sure-fire recipe for success, but in the long term it will do your coffee shop more harm than good.

Here is the content of an email I received recently from a reader in Saudi Arabia:

Dear Nigel,

I am an owner of coffee drive-through and recently I opened a dine-in shop.

I designed my coffee shop to be modern, basing the style on pictures from the net and getting ideas from some famous restaurants — but the final result is not really very attractive, in my opinion

I have opened the shop, but business is slow and I feel an improvement in the design would go a long way towards at­tracting more customers.

How would you suggest I do this?

I often receive letters like this, from outlet owners who have copied designs and ended up with unsuccessful outlets.

To be fair, you can find these kinds of short-lived, derivative, copy-cat designs pretty much wherever you go in the world, not just in the Middle East — but it is true that most of the outlets that have sprung up in the hotels and malls of Dubai have been done before elsewhere.

If you’d prefer a new, exciting, successful outlet then you should adopt the MAYA principle: ‘Most Advanced Yet Acceptable’.

I don’t claim to have invented this ethos; it was first used by famous American industrial designer Raymond Loewy, who made fortunes convincing the corporations of America to be original by simply asserting that “ugly doesn’t sell”.

My message is that if you want to create a truly successful, recession-proof concept, you have to break the mould.

Frustratingly, my attempts to convince operators in the region to do anything new and original have nearly always been met with scepticism.

I have come to the reluctant conclusion that this comes down to a cultural division: despite its veneer of modernity, the Middle East remains obstinately conservative.

Businesses operated via the ‘command, control and procurement’ school of thought are ultimately cost-driven and out-moded, compared with the flexible and imaginative methods seen in Europe and America.

This applies across business generally, but F&B outlets in particular can benefit when creativity is at the centre of their propositions.

The problem is that to originate a truly new MAYA café or restaurant, a lot of ‘wrong’ ideas have to be discarded, so there’s no way of shortcutting with a quick, cheap design pitch. No matter how hard you stamp your feet in front of your designer, an origi­nal idea will take time and money.

Here’s the nub of the problem: it’s all about trust. Designers offering MAYA are in effect saying, ‘pay us a lot and we’ll deliver something we can’t yet picture and we’re not sure how long it will take to deliver’.

For most operators with bosses or banks to please, on tight budgets and timescales, this is not a very attractive message! It’s far more controllable and comfortable to buy in a well-worn franchise.

And what makes originality even harder to implement is that all operators have a tendency to revert to the emotional safety of what they already know works, even though the idea may be old hat.

This may help your business meet short-term objectives, but is unlikely to be a safe and successful long-term strategy — after all, you can’t lead by following.

At the end of the day, a MAYA design will always outperform a boring, tried-and-tested, ‘safe’ formula.

So if your outlet is quiet, maybe it’s time to stop looking outwards to see what new ideas the world can give you.

Instead, why not trust and empower your designer and look inside yourself to see what new ideas you can give to the world?

Nigel Witham MCSD MIOD writer, designer and photographer Member of the Chartered Society of Designers (interior and graphic design disciplines)

I designed my first restaurant in Richmond, London in 1990 and it is still there and successful today.

Today my team and I provide, professional bar, cafe, and restaurant design, CAD drafting, visualization and project management worldwide. I also write about design in many magazines.

Although we have worked mainly in the UK we have production offices in India and New Zealand. I am currently spending most time in London but often visit Europe, NYC and the UAE.

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Coffee Shop Business Planner
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Starbucks Coffee 120-pc. Medium Starbucks Decaf Coffees Decaf House Blend Filter Pack, Decaf House Blend, Filter Pack

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Robot From Fresh Roast Systems, Inc. Becomes First Automated Coffee Roaster to be Recognized by Ken Davids

Key Biscayne, FL (PRWEB) May 6, 2007

Fresh Roast Systems, Inc. announces that Texas Roast Coffee has received an impressive 89-point review from leading coffee authority Ken Davids of Coffee Review for coffee roasted on their fully automated roasting machine.

“The Fresh Roast System is the sous-chef in our kitchen,” says Texas Roast owner Jeff Schneider. Schneider founded the Rockwall, TX, coffee shop and roasting business less than one year ago after returning from military duty in Iraq, with no prior coffee roasting experience or formal training.

By obtaining such a high rating on Coffee Review’s 100-point scale for their Cowboy Coffee blend, Texas Roast enters an elite class of specialty coffee craftsmen. Mr. Davids describes the blend as having a “very impressive aroma” and “grapefruit notes with distinct cedar and semi-sweet chocolate.”

“Ever since the review, online sales of our coffee have been booming,” says Schneider.

“This achievement is going to raise some eyebrows in our industry,” notes specialty coffee industry consultant Andrew Hetzel. “Some traditionalists will always be skeptical of new technologies, but I believe that this proves automation can be an effective tool that will allow any business to roast craftsman-quality coffee with minimal requirements.”

Mr. Schneider is planning additional Texas Roast locations in coming months, each of which will be outfitted with its own automated roaster.

About Texas Roast

Texas Roast serves fresh baked pastries and fresh roasted coffee daily in their coffee shop at 2435 Ridge Road, Rockwall, Texas. For more information call (972) 722-6336 or to order coffee online, visit their website at http://www.texasroast.com.

About Fresh Roast Systems, Inc.

Fresh Roast Systems of Key Biscayne, Florida, is the creator and patent holder for the Fresh Roast System ventless automated coffee roaster, a self-contained computer operated coffee roasting machine that allows any business to consistently produce fresh-roasted coffee without the staffing and environmental drawbacks of traditional coffee roasting equipment. For more information, call (305) 361-0463 or visit their website at http://www.freshroastsystems.com .

Media Contact:

Matthew Weisberg, General Manager

Fresh Roast Systems, Inc.

650-325-1795

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