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Karla
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How much money you should use while building a Cat Cafe?
I have heard that they use a lot of money to manage and have a stable place in the early starts of this, maybe it is a lie but I really want to know because I would like to have one.
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Bill Watts
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The startup costs associated with opening a cat cafe business are expensive. Some of the more sizable expenses include:
- Purchasing or leasing a space for the cat cafe
- Building out the space so that it’s feline-friendly
- Getting a Point-of-Sale system for selling your cafe products
- Buying food preparation equipment for making food and drinks
- Buying cat pods, litter boxes, food and water dishes, food and litter
- Buying the ingredients for preparing customers’ food and beverages
- Business owners who want to keep startup expenses low can forgo the food preparation equipment and ingredients. Instead of making dishes and beverages on-site, a cat cafe business can partner with a nearby cafe that’ll make the dishes. Kanchan Singh used this setup when she opened - Crumbs & Whiskers. An employee would take customers’ orders, and then go pick up the food and drinks at a nearby cafe and bring them back to the cat cafe.
What are the ongoing expenses for a cat cafe?
- The ongoing expenses of a cat cafe business are substantial. They include rent, utilities, food costs, employees’ wages and all the expenses that come with caring for cats.
- Purchasing or leasing a space for the cat cafe
- Building out the space so that it’s feline-friendly
- Getting a Point-of-Sale system for selling your cafe products
- Buying food preparation equipment for making food and drinks
- Buying cat pods, litter boxes, food and water dishes, food and litter
- Buying the ingredients for preparing customers’ food and beverages
- Business owners who want to keep startup expenses low can forgo the food preparation equipment and ingredients. Instead of making dishes and beverages on-site, a cat cafe business can partner with a nearby cafe that’ll make the dishes. Kanchan Singh used this setup when she opened - Crumbs & Whiskers. An employee would take customers’ orders, and then go pick up the food and drinks at a nearby cafe and bring them back to the cat cafe.
What are the ongoing expenses for a cat cafe?
- The ongoing expenses of a cat cafe business are substantial. They include rent, utilities, food costs, employees’ wages and all the expenses that come with caring for cats.
Jerome Levy
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... and in addition to the excellent answers Bill's given:
- Insurance
- Taxes and licensing fees
- Advertising and publicity
Starting any sort of business -- especially a brick-and-mortar one (as opposed to Internet-based) is a serious undertaking. If you have little or no experience and can get the opportunity to work for someone else who's done it, especially if it's a similar business to the one you plan to open, then you might consider taking that even if the pay's low. Learning what's involved is worth a lot.
Good luck!
- Insurance
- Taxes and licensing fees
- Advertising and publicity
Starting any sort of business -- especially a brick-and-mortar one (as opposed to Internet-based) is a serious undertaking. If you have little or no experience and can get the opportunity to work for someone else who's done it, especially if it's a similar business to the one you plan to open, then you might consider taking that even if the pay's low. Learning what's involved is worth a lot.
Good luck!