Can Independent Coffee Shops compete with Starbucks – The Profit Express Interview

This was the question posed to us by Tim Healy recently on his show.  

He discovered us through his love of coffee and our Instagram page @coffeepreneurs, he met the love of his life and now wife of 25 years in a coffee shop called Mibs in Long Island, New York and is sad they closed a long time ago when Starbucks came on the scene.

Show Highlights:
5:30 – Why is the coffee shop industry littered with failure?
8:35 – What makes a great coffee shop?
14:00 – What type of person makes a great coffee shop owner?
20:20 – What does it take to scale a coffee shop?
27:30 – How do you make your business Instagrammable?
32:10 – How does a small coffee shop compete with Starbucks?
42:40 – What is a must-have for anyone who wants to invest in a coffee shop?

We hope you enjoy the convesation as much as we did, Tim is a top guy!