Cafe Owners, When Did You Decide to Expand or Change Your Model?
When did you decide to expand or change your business plan?
Was there a time it was not working and innovation was the only option or was there another reason.
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When did you decide to expand or change your business plan?
Was there a time it was not working and innovation was the only option or was there another reason.
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We expanded last year to a much larger location and have slowly been adding additional products. I think the real key is to really understand your market and make & perfect small changes one at a time. Increasing or decreasing in an extreme way can really backfire. If you make small changes slowly, and find the change does not improve your business the way you imagined, you will be able to fix/remove the change easier, cheaper, and are less likely to confuse your customers
Actually, I contracted my product offering several years ago and sales increased. More was not working - it was just more. Less, allowed better focus and decreased the appearance of clutter in the shop making things look more professional and that we had a commitment to what we offered.
I started out as breakfast lunch a couple months in I voted out breakfast and added dinner since we have become more of a music venue and now 4 months in we are adding a second dining room for more space we are just trying to find our market and who wants to be in the cafe and when