Coffee Cart & How Many Coffees an Hour?

CartMan

Hi, i was wondering if i could get some answers or vaugue ideas on a couple of questions.

ill start by saying that i am new to this forum and to commercial coffee.

I am looking at opening up a semi permanenet coffee cart and am in negotiation on a location situated between two large (10 story each) office buildings. Im making a very very rough estimate but assuming these two buildings would have around 1500-2000 people occuping them.

I would liek to know, with these sort of numbers, roughly how many coffees could you expect to sell a day.

What times are the peak periods.. im assuming around 8am-9am?

How many coffees could you expect to sell in the peak periods?

Should i be looking to invest in a 2 group coffee machine or a 3 group?

How many coffees can you make flat out (depending on experience) in a given time period (ie 5 minutes or a minute or something like that)

As im new to the commercial side of coffee, any tips, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time

Andy

fattylateplease

Go for 3 group. Everyone wants their coffee at once and they tend to come at the same time. Have lots of milk jugs off all sizes. I doubt you can ever guess how many coffee you will make in an hour. 1 - 100 or more maybe. What city are you based in. I'd say in Melbourne or Sydney, you'd want to be quite quick as office workers are quite grumpy if you are slow.

CartMan

Thanks. Yes i am in Sydney. Am just doing the numbers and would love to know ideas as well of how many coffees a day is a realistic number. Id be relatively happy with a minimum of around 250 coffees