Opening a Tea / Coffee Shop
I was doing some research for a friend who wants to start a coffee / tea shop and I realized I had quite a list of links. I offer these for anybody who might be interested in starting up a coffee shop or tea house. I don't endorse any of these sites or products, I merely offer them here as I would to my friend, as resource material and a starting point to do your own investigation.
Tea Shop Startup Help:
* The Tea School offers a two day course with certification of completion for $2100.
"Founded by Pearl Dexter, editor of TEA A MAGAZINE® in November of 1999, The TEA School™ was established to give people who are in or entering into a tea business a firm foundation in the history, geography, and cultivation/processing of tea."
* Open a Tea Room - consulting services and training for the aspiring tea room entrepreneur. In addition to consulting, they also offer teleconference seminars and a training manual - How to Open the Best Tea Room In Town - which you can order online.
* How to Start A Tea Business - Dawnya Sasse offers a highly personalized online, 3-4 week tea training course.
"If you don't plan to go to the traditional tea seminar you are out of luck when it comes to business training. I created a totally online course in order to better provide tea entrepreneurs with training from home. I also wanted to make sure that tea entrepreneurs could receive training in a variety of tea fields not just tearooms. Start A Tea Business focuses on finding the right opportunity for you and your lifestyle."
And here's an interesting Interview with Dawnya from teatimeworldwide.com
Coffee Shop Startup Help:
CrimsonCup - consulting for the coffee shop entrepreneur.
"We teach independent coffee shop owners the skills needed to operate a viable and competitive business. "
Coffee Shop Franchises - apparently this is a pretty hot field.
* Business Opportunities: Coffee Franchise
http://www.smallbusinessopportunity.com/industries/2618/coffee.asp
* Business Opportunities Weblog: Barnie's Coffee & Tea Company
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/archives/2004/05/25/5661.php
* Coffee Franchise Review
http://www.coffeefranchisereview.com/
Industry links, journal, associations:
Tea and Coffee Trade Journal
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/index.html
Specialty Coffee Association of America
http://www.scaa.org/
Tea Association of the U.S.
http://www.teausa.org/
Forums for coffee / tea business talk:
http://www.teaandcoffee.net/news/
http://www.coffeeforums.com/
http://www.bensonassoc.com/pct/bb/index.html
http://www.teachat.com - look in Tea Rooms and Tea Sites
I'm sure I'm missing a lot of essential links. Maybe some of those wizards out there will help add to this resource list.









Nice resource of links and summary of available business information on the coffee industry.
I will be linking to your site from my blog and recomended that anyone interested in the tea or coffee business check it out.
Posted by: Greg Balanko-Dickson | April 20, 2005 at 10:12 AM
Great Greg, thanks much!
Posted by: Christine Torres | April 21, 2005 at 11:20 AM
is there any one in the Vancouver area that I can talk to about opening up a tea shop get some info
and idea's on how I should start
Posted by: Aaron McKinley | December 07, 2005 at 02:01 PM
We have a new coffee and soon to have tea site...enjoy!!!!
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Posted by: Abhishek | September 18, 2006 at 01:30 AM
Hi, I am doing a project for a business communications course that I'm taking. It involves creating a business. I decided for my business to be a tea house. I have to write an eight page business plan and also create a powerpoint presentation for this project. I was wondering if anyone on here could give me some ideas on how much it would take to open up a business as such and if anyone has any ideas that they could help me with. Thanks.
Posted by: Rebecca | April 01, 2007 at 08:26 PM
Dear Rebecca,
Did anyone help? Bob
Posted by: bob | June 30, 2007 at 08:02 PM
I am currently working on a project paper. The price of tea is 23.50. What Can I do to make it $29.00
any sample of reserch done before.
Posted by: Shaun | January 27, 2008 at 05:49 PM