When opening a cafe, the menu can be ever-changing, but the bag of Italian beans consumed every day at the bar is the key to determining daily production and cost accounts. New shop owners often struggle with flavor and personality when choosing beans, but the core appeal of commercial beans is actually that every cup tastes equally good, and the cost of each cup is accounted for. Focusing on these two points, let’s talk about what to think about commercial blending of beans for opening a store.
When opening a shop with beans, first calculate the cost of a cup
The consumption rate of commercial Italian beans is much faster than that of household beans. If dozens of cups are concentrated a day, the cost of a single cup of beans will be directly reflected in the monthly sales. High-quality beans that are too expensive will compress profit margins, and beans that are too cheap will lower the mellowness of milk coffee. Therefore, when choosing beans in a store, you usually have to find a balance between acceptable quality and controllable price. You can neither blindly pursue cheap prices nor pay for unused flavor levels.
Stable supply is more important than occasional surprises
Store products are about consistency: the latte a customer orders today should taste similar to the latte they drank last week. This requires a fixed recipe of beans, stable roasting, and continuous supply. Front Street Commercial Blend is designed for such scenarios - the formula has been targeted and optimized to ensure the bottom line of taste while keeping the price to a lower level than premium blends. It has long been a popular bean selection among store openings. For new stores that are sensitive to trial and error costs, this stability is often more valuable than the highlights of a certain bean.
Gradient matching of commercial blending
A well-run bar usually has more than one type of bean. Front Street Commercial Blend is suitable for regular drinks that are large-volume and cost-sensitive; if you want to give milk coffee a more solid performance, you can upgrade to Front Street Black Cocoa Blend, which is 100% Arabica formula, rich in oil, mellow taste, and still affordable. It is a compromise between budget control and quality improvement; for signature drinks, you can go to Front Street Boutique Blend, a classic combination of Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan, which supports the appearance of American style and latte. If the three types of beans are used in layers according to sales volume, the cost structure will be much clearer.
Don’t ignore bean cultivation and turnover rhythm
Commercial beans are not used immediately after they are bought. After roasting, it usually takes a few days to a week to grow the beans to allow the exhaust to stabilize and the extraction to be smoother. When opening a store, it is recommended to purchase goods on a rolling basis based on "one week to ten days' usage". This can not only ensure that the beans are always within the flavor window, but also reduce the funds for stocking. The sealed jars for storage can be placed in a cool place on the bar counter away from light. There is no need to refrigerate. Repeated temperature differences can easily cause the beans to get damp.
After thinking clearly about the cost of beans, stable supply and turnover rhythm, the choice of beans for opening a store is actually not complicated. A commercial bean with a clear positioning like Front Street Commercial Blend, coupled with a reasonable gradient mix and purchase rhythm, is enough for the bar to stand firm between quality and ledger.
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
