Welcome to Lamma.com.hk, mojo!
Enjoying your yummy crepe & strong coffee ("to wake up the dead") yesterday, I like your new place a lot!
It's got an ideal location overlooking the tourist trail coming up the hill in Tai Yuen, eye-catching furniture and very friendly, relaxed & bilingual service. This could become a viable little weekend and holiday business, if you'd promote it well and offer some more snacks for the tourists passing by.
As always, I followed my annoying habit of taking pictures of dishes in local restaurants, see below.
Making it a full-time, all-week business? Just a few comments:<OL><LI>From talking to most restaurants & bars on a regular basis (most of them current or former Lamma-zine advertisers), I know that the local F&B scene is a tough and overcrowded place. Many have tried and failed over the years. Ever more restaurants facing a shrinking population, many of them with very limited budgets for eating/drinking out.
<LI>Your location in Tai Yuen would rely mostly on weekend/holiday tourists, as it's too far outside the main villages up a hill, too far for a coffee for many lazy local residents, like myself. You need regulars to make the biz sustainable. Expected traffic during weekdays would be just a small fraction of weekends. That's why most shops up there open only on weekends & holidays.
<LI>If you're different, offering something new & good, it could become a success. More than juices, teas, coffee & crepes, which are available in several other places already.
<LI>Check out your direct main competitors on that road and see what they do right and wrong:
Emily's, Tropicana, Honey Bee, "My Cafe" (reopening soon), dai pai dong opposite tea shop, Shelly's and the several sweet tofu places all the way up to Hung Shing Yeh beach.</OL>To summarise, I'd advise to try weekends & holidays first for a few weeks or months and see how it's going, before giving up your steady-income day job, surviving on the potentially pretty small & highly fluctuating income from an all-week, outdoor-only cafe.
Or just take a week or two off from work and try it safely right now!
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