Cafe Finances – Tips for running a business that has healthy growth.

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4.8 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Welcome back to the Cat & Cloud Podcast! We are starting off the year with a series of Episodes that we think are helpful, and this weeks episode is about cafe finances. Money can be a scary or mysterious topic, but as Chuck helps explain, it's possible to run a cafe in a way that doesn't only provide for the owner, but creates possibilities and careers for its team. In the episode Charles also mentions a breakdown sheet, and that is linked here: https://catandcloud.com/pages/gross-margin-category-margins-sales-mix Enjoy! Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask us? Do you wanna hear us talk about it on the podcast? Visit our website catandcloud.com/podcast, or email us at [email protected] and tell us what it is, and maybe your question will be the one we answer next week! Instagram: www.instagram.com/catcloudcoffee/ Cat & Cloud: catandcloud.com/ Chris Baca’s Personal Blog: chrisbaca.com/ We are Cat & Cloud Coffee. Started by three friends trying to pursue their passions with the mission to inspire connection by creating memorable experiences, and we created this podcast to continue forming those connections inside and out of our cafes. The Cat & Cloud podcast was created as a space for two of our founders, Chris Baca and Jared Truby, to share their experiences in the coffee industry and starting a business. Each week the guys sit down to talk about their new challenges as business owners, how they’ve utilize our mission and values to make decisions, and answer questions from our listening community. If you’re looking to expand your coffee knowledge, get some advice for your own small business, or just like the vibes, give us a listen!

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0:00.0	Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to the Cat and Cloud podcast. We are starting off the year by
0:05.5	replaying a few episodes that we think can be the most helpful to people. Maybe this year is it.
0:12.4	Maybe 2025 is your year that you finally open your own space, your own cafe. Well, part of that new
0:19.8	business is finances. They can be scary to some,
0:24.3	a mystery to others, but no matter where you fall on that spectrum, finances are a necessary
0:30.2	part of any business. So this episode is from six years ago where Charles is reviewing a finance talk that he gave at SCA that year.
0:40.0	His talk was all about how there can be a career path for people in coffee, just like there's
0:44.9	a career path for people in any other major industry.
0:48.1	Also, key things to think about when running a cafe and setting up a new business.
0:54.1	It's a super interesting talk, but more
0:56.2	importantly, it's super helpful. All right, this is Charles and Chris talking about cafe finances.
1:02.2	Enjoy. Give you a little more volume. Thanks, dude. Okay, welcome to the Cat and Cloud Coffee podcast.
1:07.5	Charles is here with me. Hello, Charles. Hey, so sweet. Thanks for having me. Pretty good. Hey, welcome to the podcast. We're going to dig out of the podcast. Charles Jack is here with me. Hello, Charles. Hey. So sweet. Thanks for having me.
1:11.1	Pretty good. Hey, welcome to the podcast. We're going to dig into it because we actually have an 1130 meeting.
1:17.5	We do. So Charles gave a presentation at the Specialty Coffee Association Annual Expo, part of the lecture series.
1:25.8	And it was on creating sustainable careers in specialty coffee.
1:29.5	And you took a look at a few different things. Basically, I'm just going to paraphrase some of
1:35.9	what you said. Yep. So we can burn through and I can ask you some questions. But the one thing
1:40.7	that you started off with, which I thought was really interesting, was talking about
1:44.7	the scope of the coffee industry, how huge the coffee industry is.
1:50.8	You know, people always say it's like the second most traded commodity right next to oil.
1:55.2	Yeah.
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