Innovative Marketing Strategy Of The Coffee Shop

In our society, we can see many different kinds of social setting and one of the most common settings is coffee shop. Indeed, there is at least one coffee shop on each block. According to Coffee Association of Canada, the market size of coffee industry in Canada is more than 6.2 billion dollars. It shows that how big and important this social setting is. Among a lot of coffee shops, Starbucks, Tim Horton, and Second Cup are the biggest and the most popular franchisers in Canada. If the purpose of visiting coffee shop is only for coffee itself, they might have not been grown like these days.

According to (Said, 2011), people frequencies café nowadays to communicate, socialize, looking for public spaces and (Desai, May 2011) sates that people going to café for work purpose. Urbanization and gentrification changes the function of traditional café to modern café that more friendly (Cohen, September 3, 2014).

The concept of the café was discovered in 1995 when the owner, Siddhartha, encountered a pub that also provided Internet access. Its customers were able to enjoy a drink and the accessibility of the Internet. He desired to take that business concept and apply it to Café Coffee Day. Siddhartha, the owner, wanted to be hands on with his company from growing the coffee beans to the hands on access of the business such as interviews, Siddhartha wanted to have full control and was able to cut costs in doing so. His cafés were able to purchase modern furniture and current machinery for a fair price. Additionally, he invested money in educating his employees to offer his customers top quality service. This business model was successful but when the access of the Internet became available in the household consequently they needed to find another technique to draw in the customer. Although the concept of the café was booming they wanted to design new ideas to draw in a new field of clientele.

For this project, I have decided to open a coffee shop that serves regular and specialty coffee, and small pastry items that is located in a prominent neighborhood near a train station or a high foot traffic area. Coffee has become a popular beverage where it is not just needed in the mornings but throughout the day, whether they are on their way to work or just to sit and relax. I am a coffee drinker myself and it is uncommon to find a coffee place that has a warm, home feeling atmosphere. It is important to have one of these types of coffee shop in any neighborhood. My goal is to provide every customer coffee and pastry whether

Given that coming up with the coffee shop would incur a lot of effort, time and investment, having the right people for the project and managing the project team in an effective and efficient manner would be very important. The project team for this project is given below would be there for the duration of the project, and assigned various tasks that would need to be done. There would be additional people engaged if required based on any specific requirement that may be there.

By 2003, the number of retail specialty coffee shops, cafes, kiosks, coffee carts, and roasters in the United States reached over 17,000, equating to nearly $9 billion in sales. According to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, 16 percent of adults in the United States drink coffee from one of these specialty outlets daily. (“Organo Gold”, 2008).

The company location is based at Penang, Butterworth Sunway Carnival Mall. The facilities such as free Wi-Fi, comfortable sofas and chairs, dimmed light and quiet relaxing music will help the customers to relax from the daily stresses and will differentiate Starbucks Coffee shop from incumbent competitors. To speed up the customer service, at least two employees will be servicing clients. Meanwhile one employee will be preparing the customer’s order, the other one will be taking care of the sales transaction.

Coffee beverages are extremely popular in the United States, as they represent 75% of all caffeinated beverages consumed in the United States (Reynolds, 2014). Coffee shops make up the fastest growing restaurant business in the United States (Reynolds, 2014). VR Coffee Café first year of sales is expected to be $850,000. We expect year two sales to increase 17.65% to $1,000,000 and year three to increase 20% to $1,200,000. We fully expect this large increase in sales because of two main reasons. First, we expect that our coffee shop will become increasingly popular in our community, due to word of mouth, increased store recognition, and increased store rating and positive feedback on social media apps like Yelp

This coffeehouse would function like any other coffee shop; serving hot and cold beverages like a variety of teas and coffees, baked goods like cakes, muffins and cookies, sandwiches and wraps, all of which would be prepared fresh daily. The only twist would be a book lounge within the shop, where customers can enjoy a wide range of books for reading while savoring comfort food.

In conclusion, the Broadway Café faces a strong buying power and rivalry among competitors due to the large volume of shops offering the same products and services. The threat of new substitute products and alternatives is also high for the same reasons for buyer power. The Café also faces the threat of new entrants due to the lack of insignificant entry barriers. One upside is the relatively weak supplier power. The coffee industry is huge as stated above and vendors are more than ample. With this information we can conceive our business focus. The Broadway Café is best suit for a focused differentiation strategy. We plan to achieve

The benefits that the changes in the coffee culture bring are multiple and we see a coffee culture highly adapted to the new trend. This dissertation can be useful for foreign coffee shops to gain knowledge about the Swedish coffee market and its culture. New markets are opening through cultural changes, so marketers and others searching for new marketing opportunities on the Swedish coffee market should read this paper to get ideas, advices and inspiration.

Increasing amount of leasing costs and it is a huge financial burden for the company

According to the researches already done, since Starbucks was built up at the beginning of 1970s, it has been recognized as the customers’ third home, other than their own houses and workplaces. Those bright and clean tables and comfortable chairs, together with the aroma of coffee from brewing the coffee beans, also the convenience that the customers can freely charge their laptops and music players, give the “Starbucks experience” it used to have. However, with the increasing number of the branches, quantities of automatic coffee machines are taking the place of the ones done by hand, also the counters that supply drive-through in order to meet the need of the customers who are driving, began to sell food, drinks, even CD, which forced the “Starbucks experience” to disappear gradually.

People want to get their daily cup of great-tasting coffee in a relaxing atmosphere. Such customers vary in age, although most of clientele are college students and faculty. My market research shows that these are discerning customers that gravitate towards better tasting coffee. Furthermore, many college students consider coffee bars to be a convenient studying or meeting location, where they can read or meet with friends without the necessity to pay cover charges. For Café , this will provide a unique possibility for building a loyal client base. In addition, location of all three Bon! Café in city located to most visited places by young

Coffee shop is the famous business in Cochin. Coffee or Tea bar is a daily requirement for the local coffee lovers, and it is a place to dream big things in life and to discuss among friends and relatives and just a comfortable place to meet your loved ones or to read a book, all alone. With the growing demand for high-quality tea or coffee and great service, The Melody Coffee shop will mainly focus on the institute of management studies in Cochin and other private institutes also. The kind of culture will offer its customers the best prepared coffee/tea in the area that will be served with a muffin and a sweet, moreover we will provide some free books that many more old customers can read and enjoy their visit. The shop will operate a 70 square foot coffee bar near to the entrance of the institute of management studies in the building. The identified place can be obtained for lease for 8 months and it is possible to get a nearly extension in the upcoming months and years. The start-up funding which is available with Mr. Hemant is INR 80,000/- and it is surely that the remaining amount of Rs 50000 will be incurred through some commercial loans from the Bank of Baroda. The business is expected to gain more and more profit that will be more than 150000 per year. Melody Coffee shop will try to maintain a high gross profit margin and reasonable operating expenses throughout the year.