Anyway - Sorry Neku, I'm copying parts of the PM I wrote to you recently - I don'T wanna type all again
I told you in another post that a new chain isn't making the numbers they want in all the locations in Vienna....
So in the USA you would say "oh, oh - if *xx* moves out, that place can't be so good" - but here in Vienna the market is different.
That place is an open speciality market where people pay much more money to get something special from somewhere in the world, and Austria, too, of course. We are between one of the most famous Italian delicatessen shop and the most famous Vinothek (where people taste, test and buy wine)
On a market like that a "fast food chain" - even if it's fast coffee has a very hard time. A McDonald would never survive there, for example.
Our speciality concept fits very well, the customers there are totally our target group.
At the beginning they wanted to have 100 000 Euro replacement investment for the 400 000 Euro they have spent making that place just wonderful. (they rebuilt the stuccato ceilings, made several new toilets, a kitchen, lots of lights, a security door, all the electrical plumbing for the camera, hifi, floor made of stone tiles and partially wood and a ventilation system until up to the roof, 5 floors high! - the most expensive part....)
Now they don't want the 100 000 Euro from us! They are happy that we can move in quickly (2 months time to get ready, starting from the 1st of August)
Unfortunately the rent is very high, but it's a good location and we safe so much money because the place is technically perfect. We just have to change the colors of the walls, get some new wood on the sides, a new bar and move our furniture and the machines...fill the freezers and the boilers and off we go...
Ha, if it would be that easy
Hardest part will be finding the perfect employees and training them.
Opening could be on the 1st of October - the day of coffee here in Austria! Our chamber of commerce is making quite a marketing hype of that day, that would be cheap advertising for me, too, as a member...
I should jump on that train and use that day for an opening party.
Unfortunately I won't have much time then to browse through TMC as much as I did recently - maybe a relief
for some - but before the stress begins i will finish reassembeling my 3 group and 2 group La San Marcos and make an article about it for Phil...
Hope you can all come and visit me some day(s)
Aloha
Joey
Aloha
Joey
