brother needs to find out the answer to the question...i know it depends on the size and how many cups are served a day, say its average and its open 5 days a week.

thanks

Few cafes are only open 5 days a week. Almost all are open 7.
Are you talking espresso only? Brewed coffee plus espresso? How about whole bean sales?
To be honest, the range is too high to give a worthwhile average without more information. Even with espresso only (not counting brewed coffee or whole bean sales) the range is probably something like 25lb to 1000lb a week. Obviously there are outliers that are even less or more.

espresso only for consumption not whole bean sales and ok lets say 7 days a week. What does your average starbucks use in a week of espresso only?

mindless_fool wrote:espresso only for consumption not whole bean sales and ok lets say 7 days a week. What does your average starbucks use in a week of espresso only?

Lets be kind and let Starbucks call what they make espresso. Is this a grocery store installation, or a small neighborhood corner drive through with some seating, or a Seattle downtown mid block store?

I would guess a grocery front would do 15-20lb a day in the Super-Auto then maybe 30-40 in bagged whole or ground for customer use.

As you move from that to a drive through a 3 to 5x increase in the shot volume, most likely the same or even less in the bag.

You get to Seattle and they are buying bags of beans to chew on while standing in line waiting for their cup of swill, so who knows.

This is all pointless because a start up no name shop would never get the volume that even a grocery store Starbucks does.

If you want to start a shop worry about location and traffic flow first. If the customer can't see the shop and are interested, they will not stop. Also if it is a pain in the rear to get into and out of or to park, they will not stop.

They are not a 'real' customer until they come back a second time. It is your job to make the first time so nice special that they will go that extra few minutes drive to come back to you a second time.

Sorry, I know you were not asking for the business 101 bit.

-C

BTW I joke about Seattle, I have had a couple of amazing shots there, never in a *$ though. Totally coffee crazy city though, what is the average now, one coffee shop for every other block downtown maybe one per 1.5 blocks if you count the carts. But as far as I know they only have to chew on beans to get from shop to shop, not while they are inside