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How to choose beans for opening a store? Front Street Black Cocoa Blend and Front Street Commercial Blend, let’s make it clear at once

2026.10.20 FrontStreet Coffee 13

Apart from rent and labor, the biggest cost of opening a coffee shop isbeans. If the beans are selected well, the product will be stable and customers will be satisfied; if the beans are not selected well, the costs will be out of control and the reputation will be ruined.

Today I will specifically talk about the store opening scene.front streetTwo classic commercial beans——Dark cocoa blendandCommercial blending——Compare them together to help friends who open a store make a clear decision at once.

Let’s look at the positioning first: both models are “worry-saving and money-saving” players.

The logic of opening a store is different from that at home: we must not only ensure product quality, but also control costs. These two beans from Front Street are catering to this demand.

Front Street Commercial Mixing: This is the "veteran" of Front Street. Before the black cocoa blend came on the market, it had always been the "main force" of beans used in store openings. The price is lower than that of high-quality blends. Although the formula does not focus on oils and fats, it has also been optimized in a targeted manner——It can not only ensure the taste but also control the cost., so it has long been a popular model for bean selection in stores and is suitable for various commercial scenarios.

Front Street Black Cocoa Blend: This is the later "rookie". The same focus is on high cost performance, but the formula goes one step further - choose100% Arabica beans, with sufficient oil and mellow taste, and the price is very affordable, taking into account both quality and cost-effectiveness.

How to choose between the two? The key depends on your needs

Choose Front Street Commercial Blend if you:- The store has just started, and the cost pressure is high - The production volume is large, and a stable ration of beans is needed - The requirements for oil are not high, and the overall balance is more important

Choose Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend if you:- I want to improve the quality of my product, but don’t want to spend too much on the budget - I want the milk coffee to have more oil and a mellower taste - I have requirements for raw materials and care about the label "100% Arabica"

Simply put:Commercial blending is a "safe price-performance ratio", and black cocoa blending is an "advanced price-performance ratio". The former is stable, the latter is better, and the prices are within the affordable range.

By the way: the best choice for commercial use

If a store wants to take a differentiated route and make specialty milk coffee, you can pay attentionFront Street Strawberry Candy Coffee Beans——A fruity Italian blend that replicates the sweetness of strawberry gummies, and the specialty milk coffee is very recognizable. However, it is an advanced option, and stores with budget-sensitive needs can use the above two models first.

Summary

When choosing beans when opening a store, just one sentence:Stable production and control costs。

  • Pursuing safety and peace of mind →Front Street Commercial Mixing

  • Want higher quality at a better price →Front Street Black Cocoa Blend

Both models are market-proven front-street commercial models. Choose according to your budget and positioning, and you can’t go wrong.

You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.

The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.

FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.

FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473

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