Profitable Specialty Coffee Roastery & Café Chain with Community Focus
Business Description
The Company is a multi-unit specialty coffee company with several successful café locations across Tennessee and Kentucky, supported by a fully equipped and certified commercial roastery. The Company has built a strong reputation for high quality beverages, fresh baked goods and meaningful community engagement, resulting in a loyal customer base and consistent traffic across its markets. Its operational model is highly standardized with each café utilizes the same La Marzocco espresso machines, Mazzer grinders, commercial ovens, coolers and freezers, ensuring consistent product quality, simplified training and efficient staffing.
The sale includes an extensive suite of intangible and intellectual assets, such as proprietary roast profiles,
recipes, menus, merchandise designs, supplier lists, design files, professional photography, historical reporting, gift card designs and all associated brand and trademark rights. These assets, alongside strong community goodwill, create a turnkey platform ready for further expansion. The business is supported by an experienced team and a healthy internal culture, reinforced through location level communication channels.
Lease structures across locations are highly favorable, consisting of a mix of month-to-month agreements with capped rent increases and multi-year leases with extension options. Facilities have minimal anticipated maintenance needs due to consistent equipment and scheduled upkeep.
Significant growth opportunities exist, including geographic expansion, wholesale roasting, enhanced digital marketing, additional product lines, and potential franchising due to the Company’s standardized systems.
Ownership is pursuing other opportunities, presenting an attractive acquisition for buyers seeking a scalable, respected and operationally mature specialty coffee brand.
The sale includes an extensive suite of intangible and intellectual assets, such as proprietary roast profiles,
recipes, menus, merchandise designs, supplier lists, design files, professional photography, historical reporting, gift card designs and all associated brand and trademark rights. These assets, alongside strong community goodwill, create a turnkey platform ready for further expansion. The business is supported by an experienced team and a healthy internal culture, reinforced through location level communication channels.
Lease structures across locations are highly favorable, consisting of a mix of month-to-month agreements with capped rent increases and multi-year leases with extension options. Facilities have minimal anticipated maintenance needs due to consistent equipment and scheduled upkeep.
Significant growth opportunities exist, including geographic expansion, wholesale roasting, enhanced digital marketing, additional product lines, and potential franchising due to the Company’s standardized systems.
Ownership is pursuing other opportunities, presenting an attractive acquisition for buyers seeking a scalable, respected and operationally mature specialty coffee brand.
About the Business
- Years in Operation
- 5
- Employees
- 66 (6 Full-time, 60 Part-time)
- Facilities & Assets
- -La Marzocco Linea espresso machines (standardized across all stores)
-Mazzer Super Jolly grinders
-Half-size commercial ovens for daily baking
-Ice machines, coolers and freezers
-Standard drip coffee machines
-A large commercial coffee roaster and supporting roastery equipment
-proprietary roast profiles
-recipes, menus, merchandise designs
-supplier lists, design files, professional photography
-historical reporting, gift card designs and all associated brand and trademark rights. - Market Outlook / Competition
- The company is the category leader/sole provider of specialty coffee in most of its markets.
- Opportunities for Growth
- Significant growth opportunities exist, including geographic expansion, wholesale roasting, enhanced digital
marketing, additional product lines, and potential franchising due to the Company’s standardized systems.
Real Estate
- Owned or Leased
- Leased
About the Sale
- Seller Motivation
- Ownership is pursuing other opportunities.
- Transition Support
- The owner will fully cooperate during the handover period to insure continuity of customer service, employee morale, and brand reputation. The Company features robust documentation and training manuals for every significant business process.
Listing Info
- ID
- 2450830
- Listing Views
- 26
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