Can a Sandwich Shop Make Decent Money ?

[Matt_N]

There's a bakery in Bristol called Everything Bagels who supply to a few local independants in the area and Bagel Boy, they're now branching out and opening their own bagel cafe, they do pretty awesome cinnamon buns too.

[Pit Pony]

I'd suggest it's a case of maximising the turnover.

So Breakfast orders taken over the phone, and delivered to every local business on industrial estate, Mobile unit, in and out of every industrial estate car park, buffet lunches, and party food, and attending "events".

[hotchy]

Dont forget local shops. Theres plenty who may take an order 3 times a week, ready packaged sandwiches etc.

[cold thursday]

DSLiverpool said:

He either won the lottery or inherited his millions or has 10 of those shops because with my best man maths I cannot see one shop getting you the 7 figure holy grail

This is true, the reported figures do not add up to him being a "Multi millionare" on that business' earnings . https://www.duedil.com/company/00396734/h-b-burbid...

[daemon]

Pit Pony said:

I'd suggest it's a case of maximising the turnover.

So Breakfast orders taken over the phone, and delivered to every local business on industrial estate, Mobile unit, in and out of every industrial estate car park, buffet lunches, and party food, and attending "events".

And theres a min £25,000 a year there just to man, run and fuel a van to provide a free service.

If you really must provide a service like this, then it would need to be carefully targeted not just to a scattergun approach of servicing everyone who fancies getting a sandwich delivered within a 5 mile radius

[anonymous-user]

A chap I knew started up a sandwich shop, he was lucky as the competition died pretty quickly so he had the market to himself, with a couple of industrial estates close by he also delivered.

It made him enough money to get a mortgage on a small house but was never going to be a gold mine. He built it up on a shoestring and only investing as he went to keep things in the black.

[anonymous-user]

miniman said:

Take yourself on a trip to Bristol and try Maximillions. It's only 10 minutes from the station, so you can escape quickly.

The basic premise is this:

Giant bap
Butter & mayo
Substantial amount of roast - pork, beef, chicken, turkey, gammon
7 salad items

This is where it gets good. "Salad" includes cheese, salami, potato wedges, noodles, spring rolls, onion bhajis, falafel, scotch eggs, sausages, you name it, they'll cram it in.

Four quid.

Queues out the door from 11:30 until 2:00

Replicate this and you'll be onto a winner.

Instantly thought of this place. So, so good.

[singlecoil]

yammyfan said:

miniman said:

Take yourself on a trip to Bristol and try Maximillions. It's only 10 minutes from the station, so you can escape quickly.

The basic premise is this:

Giant bap
Butter & mayo
Substantial amount of roast - pork, beef, chicken, turkey, gammon
7 salad items

This is where it gets good. "Salad" includes cheese, salami, potato wedges, noodles, spring rolls, onion bhajis, falafel, scotch eggs, sausages, you name it, they'll cram it in.

Four quid.

Queues out the door from 11:30 until 2:00

Replicate this and you'll be onto a winner.

Instantly thought of this place. So, so good.

I think this thread is supposed to be about whether these places make decent money, not whether they provide large amounts of good food at low prices (which, when you think about it, suggests that they are NOT making good money).

[DSLiverpool]

Lol yes it is, I have decided on a three day opening pop up shop type thing with lots of fanfair and "want" built into the fact you cant have it every day etc etc this will prove the model without significant overhead, if its washes its face on 3 days we can try 4 etc

The shop purchase didn't happen so that's the first step ...............