Driving Question:
What makes a successful café business?
Use these contributing questions to help you reseach your driving question:
- What makes a successful cafe?
- What makes a cafe look cool?
- What are some interesting themes for cafes?
- What images can I find to support my ideas for a cafe?
Resources to get you started to think about great cafes: |
Images to support you ideas for a cafe: |
What is the secret to a successful coffee shop? (Forbes magazine)
Five things your customers really want in a cafe (Silver Chef) What makes a good cafe great? (Cafe solutions) 11 factors for a successful cafe start-up - a quick overview 63 innovative cafe culture ideas (trendhunter) Eat drink design awards - best cafe design. Shortlisted cafes 2019 for this award. The world's best cafes for design lovers. Beautiful cafes, beautiful photos. Small cafe design: 20 aspirational designs. (Archdaily). Has cross sections, plans and photos of a range of cool cafes. 20 great themed cafes around the world Melbourne's themed cafes From whimsical wonderland to retro chic, these are some of the uniquely themed cafes in Melbourne. Follow these 6 steps to open your own crazy themed cafe (The entrepreneur) |
As well as great images that appear in the links on the left, there are a few other ways to search for cafe images.
1. Google Image search. Search for 'cafe interior design' or 'cafe design concepts' Or string some KEYWORDS together so you look for images that match the kind of cafe you aspire to eg. 'Industrial design' + cafe; 'fantasy design' + cafe; cosy + cafe ; 'award winning design' + cafes etc. 2. Look on Pinterest. Use search KEYWORDS such as 'cool cafe design' 'inspiring cafe designs' or simply 'best cafe design' or 'cafe interior design'. Create your own search terms and see what comes up. If you have a PINTEREST account you might like to save images to Pintrest that appeal to you. 3. iStock photos Best Cafe images. 4. Instagram. Follow some cafes on Instagram or use a #hashtag to search up some leads eg #cafedesignideas; #cafedesigninterior; #cafedesign |
Driving Question
What will my coffee cart business look like?
These contributing questions will help you design your business
What communication and inter-personal skills do I need to run my café?
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There are plenty of website with ideas on Marketing. Also do a KEYWORD search for 'cafe cart / coffee cart + marketing or 'promotion'
How will orders be taken?
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What communication and inter-personal skills do I need to run my café?
- Check out the Cafe start-ups website, there are lots of other places to find out more about these skills. Also search for each skill using the skill as your KEYWORD + cafe
- Check out the branding of some of Sydney's best cafe's - search for the specific names of cafe's in your search engine. Then - look at a graphic design software such as Canva and browse their templates for design ideas. Think about matching your design for the cart with your brand.
- Use some of the links in the section above to assist you to design the look of your cart.
- Search for specialist 'cafe architects' or 'cafe interior designers' then look through their protfolios, image galleries and their design philosophy.
- Do a Pinterest search for 'coffee cart design ideas'
- You might want a theme or a particular style. If you do, start your image search using some new KEYWORDS + cafe. You will need to think about the images you have chosen as inspiration and start to collect a range of ideas that you want to include.
- Look for websites that specifically talk about the mechanics of how a coffee shop / cart might work. Here's one to get you started: 5 senses coffee: managing your workflow.
- There are others. Search 'cafe' or 'coffee cart' + workflow.
- Using an image search you can search 'cafe operations flowchart' for some graphic representations.
- Use your own knowledge of cafe menus (brainstorm your favourites!), look online at the menus of a variety of cafes.
- Think carefully about what can be achieved in the confined space of a Cart.
- Search 'coffee cart menus' (Tip: sometimes image searches will give you a full menu so dont forget to look there as well)
- There are plenty of places to search for great recipes.Try these to get you started:
- SBS Food - this is a wonderful and reliable resource with many links to different sites and styles of cuisine. Great videos to refer to also.
ABC Food - another trustworthy source that provides great local information with a truly balanced Australian voice.
Good Food - is a quality media channel associated to the Sydney Morning Herald and Channel 9. It has some very good food article and recipes and has a focus on Australian content for an Australian Audience…just watch out for the advertising.
Delicious - seems to have an association with Woolworths and News Limited Press. It is a very stylish media channel that tries to appeal to the gourmet market. Great recipes and food ideas - particularly good for developing your food styling techniques - just be careful of the advertising. - Taste - This site also links/promotes some of the big grocery retailers but is user friendly and searchable.
- SBS Food - this is a wonderful and reliable resource with many links to different sites and styles of cuisine. Great videos to refer to also.
- TIP: WHERE THE SITE HAS ITS OWN SEARCH WINDOW. SEARCH FOR 'CAFE RECIPES'
- TIP: SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC RECIPES FOR MENU ITEMS YOU IDENTIFIED WHEN RESEARCHING MENUS.
25 restaurant marketing ideas. This one's specifically for retuarants, but some ideas can be adapted for a coffee cart easily
Clever tips for marketing your mobile food business (the entrepreneur)
7 restaurant and food truck marketing ideas. Quick read that will get you started.
There are plenty of website with ideas on Marketing. Also do a KEYWORD search for 'cafe cart / coffee cart + marketing or 'promotion'
How will orders be taken?
Search the variety of ways you can harness technology and smart apps for ordering.