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RE: 🙌🏽Sublime Sunday🙌🏽 An excuse to post your random, creative or crazy ideas by @c0ff33a ☕️
Hey my fellow coffee snob! I have a question for you - well, a few of them. @longsilver and I are kicking around the idea of becoming commercial roasters. My old popcorn popper crapped out and we have to buy a new one, we are considering going "all in" and getting something that would allow us to roast enough to sell. We have some unique challenges, one of them being in a very low density population area. Do you have any numbers on how much coffee a person might need to roast to actually make a business of it? And do you have a roaster you recommend/ And if we do decide to do something, do you sell to the US or does shipping become too costly? Thanks for any and all input!
That is a whole load of questions in a comment. To actually make a business of roasting coffee you will need to cover your investment in a roasting machine in sales, and then also cover your ongoing costs. You will have to find customers - and decide if you plan on selling to local business, or people or both. Then you have to market the product to them - directly or via a web site. You would need to source the green coffee - we use a few brokers including Interamerican coffee you could try them for coffee lists. For equipment you will have far more choice in America then we have in the UK just search coffee roasters. To make it a viable business you need to be able to sell it at enough margin to cover your costs while remaining competitive against your competition. That’s what I can tell you for a start, let me know if you need any more information
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Thanks for all the input! I appreciate your time, I know you are a busy man!