If you are looking for a side-business that you can run from home with a twist, then why not consider the option to turn your home into a pop-up cafe? This is something that more and more people are doing all over the world, and if you do it right you might find that you can effectively build up a strong business that rarely requires you to leave the home. In this post, we’ll look at what you will need to do in order to make sure that this plan works for you without a hitch.
THE LEGAL SIDE
If you want to turn your home into a pop-up cafe, first of all, you will need to make sure that you are doing this all above board, and that requires that you pay attention to a few things in particular. For example, you need to ensure that you are actually allowed to turn your home into a cafe in your local area, and if so you will probably also need to get permission to do so. Then you need to register your home as a place for a business, and have it listed as the business’ location. As long as you do all that and it is all above board, you can move on to setting it all up.
ADD SIGNAGE
Next you are going to want to start gaining interest in your new pop-up business, and one of the best ways to do that is to decorate the exterior of your home, to make it clear that there is going to be a pop-up cafe there, and to start effectively advertising to people what they can expect to find there, including what you might be selling. With some neon signs and bold branding, you should be able to get a lot of interest fast just from doing this, so it is definitely something that you are going to want to think about early on.
DECORATE THE INTERIOR
Next up you are going to need to decorate the interior, or at least the part of your home that will become the cafe, to make it look like a cafe and less like a home. Bear in mind that it is okay if it retains some of its homely charm – in fact, this is probably what people are going to want to come to your cafe for, and that can be an important and central part of the atmosphere. But set up the cafe room so that it is obviously a cafe too, and one that people will be enticed to come and sit and drink in. If you get the interior right, it is going to make all the difference in the world to how likely people are to stop in.
There you have it. In these three simple steps, you can turn your home into a cafe and start selling your favourite drinks. You might even want to sell a product that you have specially devised yourself, such as a certain loaf of bread.
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This has been a collaborative post. All thoughts and opinions expressed above are not my own
