Ok, I'll start....
I opened a cafe in 1996..If memory serves correctly....I ended the
first year of business short $600 on about $120,000 in sales. I ended
the second year with a profit of about $2000 on just over $200,000
sales. Those are sales for downtown Denver, Colorado (pop. at the
time - 2.4 million) in a shop about 1800 square feet, seven employees
and 3-5 computers. Daytime traffic of downtown professionals and
residents, average income above $80k. Night traffic mostly teenage
kids of suburbian middle to upper middle class families (such as
Littleton, Highlands Ranch, and Bear Creek). Weekend live music and
events, open seven days a week til midnight on weekdays, 2am on
weekends. Average cafe sale of $5, average amout paid for computer
use also $5. Closest competition was two blocks away, closest
cybercafe 5 miles.
In short, I know it is possible to make a profit within 15 months. Is
that typical? Probably not. If I had known better I could have been
more efficient, so I could have had a profit in the first year.
Still, I think it is more common to see up to 2 years for a profit,
maybe longer depending on where you are, who you are serving, and
what kind of cafe you run.
Hope that helps.
-Matt
>Hi, folks,
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>Can any of you tell me when a cybercafe starts making money?
>Is that months from the start, or are we talking years?
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>I have been searching the net for demographic information.
>Apart from US Census, which most recent information is dated 1997,
>and www.freedemographic.com, are there any other places online
>where I can get this type of information?
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>TIA
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>Martin
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