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post 10000010294 01-13-2026, 01:42 PM
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is it a good idea to open a doughnut shop

in a major city, next to business hub,train station,school,college etc?

selling doughnuts,coffee and tea ? what you brahs think ?


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post 10000010298 01-13-2026, 01:44 PM
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No. Margins are too low.
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A scoop of coffee grounds is literally 1 trillionith of a penny cost wise, makes a pot with 8 servings of coffee, and sells for like 3 bucks per serving. The mark up is insane so I've always thought selling coffee is a god investment.
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Sure ,until you take the scumbag company carrot ,cough...bb.com

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Whose making the donuts? in-house or your going to buy them and sell them? anyways i think it's a bad idea
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Originally Posted By p7nk⏩
Whose making the donuts? in-house or your going to buy them and sell them? anyways i think it's a bad idea
everything will be prepped in-house...coffee and dough's

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The major draw back is you're going to have screwed work schedule compared to most people. I think the donut shops in my town open around 4:30-5:30 in the morning, I'm not sure how long it takes to start prepping to make the donuts but I bet they're at work quite a bit earlier than that. One donut shop in town use to open at midnight and stay open until like 1pm, and I believe most of them are open 7 days a week.
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Originally Posted By Pats2022SBwin⏩
A scoop of coffee grounds is literally 1 trillionith of a penny cost wise, makes a pot with 8 servings of coffee, and sells for like 3 bucks per serving. The mark up is insane so I've always thought selling coffee is a god investment.
ya exactly.. a coffee machine and a doughnut one

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dunno what state you live in but around here all the bodegas and gas stations sell a ton of coffee in the morning to tradies
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This Vitenamese family used to operate the Bakery in my hometown, then sold it to someone else. They just opened another Bakery in my city about 20 miles away with alll of the same recipes, and this place absolutely fucking kills it. Obviously top quality doughnuts, which is the important part.

I'd imagine this place averages like 1000 doughnuts every day at $1.75-2 per doughnut, and it's in a little shop that can't be more than like $2500-3000 per month in rent. Ownership probably takes home $400k every year after all expenses paid.

Basically, get a good product and be in a cheap space in a good location, and you will kill it.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
No. Margins are too low.
This is fucking nonsense. A doughnut costs like 5 cents to make, and is sold for $2+.

But it's a volume business. You need to sell 100+ per day just to cover expenses, and it might take you a year to get there.
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OP obviously its a terrible business to do since Oliver is praising it.
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Originally Posted By IAMBEE⏩
OP obviously its a terrible business to do since Oliver is praising it.
Obviously if you open a franchise you won't make any money. But if you have good proven recipes and enough startup capital, it's a foolproof business plan. People fucking love doughnuts.
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Originally Posted By piramparam⏩
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You should join the french foreign legion, they take criminals in.
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Originally Posted By IAMBEE⏩
The major draw back is you're going to have screwed work schedule compared to most people. I think the donut shops in my town open around 4:30-5:30 in the morning, I'm not sure how long it takes to start prepping to make the donuts but I bet they're at work quite a bit earlier than that. One donut shop in town use to open at midnight and stay open until like 1pm, and I believe most of them are open 7 days a week.
i sleep at 8.30/9 pm and wake up at 4/4:30 ... but ym idea is doing everything on the spot... not prepare before hand l;ike ill have the coffee beans ready , and ill have the milk doughnut ready on the side
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I knew an Arab guy who did this. He was a small time professional photographer probably making like $20k a year, then decided to open a coffee shop next to some corporate offices downtown. Dude was driving a BMW living in a McMansion by the time I met him. So it can pay off.

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No. Margins are too low.
Don’t you own a cafe? Or were you trolling when you said that?
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Originally Posted By Oliverheldens1⏩
Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
No. Margins are too low.
This is fucking nonsense. A doughnut costs like 5 cents to make, and is sold for $2+.

But it's a volume business. You need to sell 100+ per day just to cover expenses, and it might take you a year to get there.
I own a restaurant and a food truck. I think I know what I'm talking about.

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Don’t you own a cafe? Or were you trolling when you said that?
Yes. I own a cafe and a food truck. People underestimate the amount of work it takes to run even a mall kiosk. And they overestimate how much money they'll make as well.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
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No. Margins are too low.
This is fucking nonsense. A doughnut costs like 5 cents to make, and is sold for $2+.

But it's a volume business. You need to sell 100+ per day just to cover expenses, and it might take you a year to get there.
I own a restaurant and a food truck. I think I know what I'm talking about.
It's not the same business as a restaurant or a food truck. There's nothing cooked to order here. Someone walks in, gets their doughnuts and leaves. You only need one employee running the place once the doughnuts are made for the day.
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Doughnuts are totally oversaturated where I live. The latest thing is those boutique cookie places.

Honestly, because people think muffins are healthy, I'd start up a boutique muffin place catering to commuters. It's basically donuts but you can sell them in the morning with coffee no problem, and all you have to do is have like a matcha grain muffin and people will pay $4 for it.
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Originally Posted By Oliverheldens1⏩
It's not the same business as a restaurant or a food truck. There's nothing cooked to order here. Someone walks in, gets their doughnuts and leaves. You only need one employee running the place once the doughnuts are made for the day.
Great. And OP is willing to do that for $50k a year? Because that's how much he'll be netting.

Do me a favor. Go and try to make 1 batch of 6 donuts. Just plain donuts, let me know how long it takes you.
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Originally Posted By BriggsBrigade⏩
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You should join the french foreign legion, they take criminals in.
You have to be elite to join the FFL. It's not all traitors and scumbags. They don't just take random guys off the street.

Yes a donut shop can be a good business. I know a guy whose father-in-law owned a donut shop. They weren't rich (I don't think, since their daughter had to take on student loans) but they got by.
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Originally Posted By Oliverheldens1⏩
It's not the same business as a restaurant or a food truck. There's nothing cooked to order here. Someone walks in, gets their doughnuts and leaves. You only need one employee running the place once the doughnuts are made for the day.
Great. And OP is willing to do that for $50k a year? Because that's how much he'll be netting.

Do me a favor. Go and try to make 1 batch of 6 donuts. Just plain donuts, let me know how long it takes you.
Yeah but he'll be making the glaze himself so think about all the money he'll save on that.
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
Originally Posted By BriggsBrigade⏩
Originally Posted By piramparam⏩
You should had become a navy seal when you had the chance now it's too late.
You should join the french foreign legion, they take criminals in.
You have to be elite to join the FFL. It's not all traitors and scumbags. They don't just take random guys off the street.

Yes a donut shop can be a good business. I know a guy whose father-in-law owned a donut shop. They weren't rich (I don't think, since their daughter had to take on student loans) but they got by.
But they DO accept criminals and scumbags, not all of them but they are there. Their training in the rain forests IIRC in south america are nuts
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Originally Posted By alexhannibal⏩
Doughnuts are totally oversaturated where I live. The latest thing is those boutique cookie places.

Honestly, because people think muffins are healthy, I'd start up a boutique muffin place catering to commuters. It's basically donuts but you can sell them in the morning with coffee no problem, and all you have to do is have like a matcha grain muffin and people will pay $4 for it.
It's funny cause muffins a lot of times have significantly more calories than donuts. One donut generally has about 200 calories, whereas muffins have like 450-500 calories.
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Originally Posted By Pats2022SBwin⏩
Originally Posted By alexhannibal⏩
Doughnuts are totally oversaturated where I live. The latest thing is those boutique cookie places.

Honestly, because people think muffins are healthy, I'd start up a boutique muffin place catering to commuters. It's basically donuts but you can sell them in the morning with coffee no problem, and all you have to do is have like a matcha grain muffin and people will pay $4 for it.
It's funny cause muffins a lot of times have significantly more calories than donuts. One donut generally has about 200 calories, whereas muffins have like 450-500 calories.
Muffins are just marketing cake as a breakfast food. Someone really smart came up with that idea.
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