Resource hub
Coffee shop owner guides & free tools
Every guide, calculator and template we've built for independent café owners — from "should I open one" to "how do I run this calmly in year five".
Starting a coffee shop
12-step founder playbook from concept to opening day.
Lender-ready 7-section plan with 12-month financials.
Cute, catchy, modern, classy, punny and location-based names.
Espresso, grinders, refrigeration, smallwares, POS.
Square footage, bar design, customer flow, ADA basics.
Mobile coffee: cart vs trailer vs truck, permits, economics.
Running a profitable shop
Weekly owner rhythm and the 5 numbers that decide your year.
Gross vs net, COGS / labor / waste targets.
Real 2026 income data by shop type and year.
Par levels, counts, waste-to-COGS workflow.
Menu & marketing
Software & POS buyer's guides
Square vs Toast vs Dripos vs Clover, compared.
Single-terminal cafés under $500K — what to pick, what to skip.
What it does, what to look for, how it differs from POS.
QuickBooks vs Xero vs Wave vs FreshBooks for cafés.
7shifts vs Homebase vs When I Work vs Deputy.
Weekly cadence, chart of accounts, when to hire help.
Free calculators
Net profit from revenue, COGS, labor and rent.
Cups/day needed to cover fixed costs.
Recipe-cost any menu item and hit target margin.
Multi-recipe builder with monthly profit per drink.
Full build-out + first-90-day cost model.
Par levels and reorder quantities by SKU.
Dollar value of waste by item per week.
Stop guessing what your café earned today.
Coffee Shop Dashboard closes your day in 60 seconds and shows live profit, COGS, labor and waste — no spreadsheets, no month-end panic.
- Free 14-day trial — no card required
- Live profit, COGS, labor & waste
- 60-second daily close-out
- Built for independent café owners