Coffee Cart Success Stories [2024]
A coffee cart is a small outdoor structure that serves coffee and other beverages at retail prices. A coffee cart business is a low startup cost business.
All you need to set up a coffee cart business is a professional coffee machine and coffee cups.
To maximize your profits all year round, choose a strategic location and ensure you are readily available to serve your customers whenever they need coffee.
In this list, you'll find real-world coffee cart success stories and very profitable examples of starting a coffee cart that makes money.
1. Camper Cafe ($180K/year)
Beth Baxter co-founded Camper Cafe, a mobile coffee van business, when her partner decided to convert his vintage VW campervan into a trailer for his motorcycles. Baxter suggested putting a coffee machine in the trailer instead, and the idea took off. Now, 11 years later, Camper Cafe is on its sixth mobile coffee unit and supplies major sporting events and works with international brands, generating around Β£150k in revenue from only 70 days of work per year.
How much money it makes: $180K/year
How much did it cost to start: $5K
How many people on the team: 2
This case study follows the co-founder of Camper Cafe, a mobile coffee van business which started as a hobby and now has 6 units that supply the UK's biggest sporting events, commercial and film shoots, generating around Β£150k from working only 70 days of the year.
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