Many people dream of their own business, which would bring a stable income for many years. One of the options for a successful capital investment can be an Internet cafe with an original design and an individual approach to customers.
In large cities, more and more institutions appear that specialize in providing the population with the opportunity to use the Internet. Such cafes bring considerable profit if their work is competently and accurately built.
In the event that you want to create your own internet cafe, first decide on its style and atmosphere. Perhaps you would like your establishment to be associated with a multifunctional center, where you can not only go online, but also use the services of a service center (printing and scanning documents, recording information on flash cards, etc.). Once you have defined the concept of the cafe, try to adhere to it while working on its opening.
You cannot choose a place for a future establishment based only on the availability of funds. The decisive factors should be factors that relate to the potential clientele: average income, place of study or work, preferred leisure. It would be nice if you take a map of the city and mark its most important points on it: universities and institutes, railway stations, clubs, theaters and cinemas, hotels, metro stations. Try to use the diagram to determine exactly how the townspeople move around the city. Those places where travel routes intersect most often are the most promising for opening cafes there. Visit these places several times (on weekdays and weekends, in the morning and in the evening), this will help you adjust your calculations. Take a closer look at shopping centers where you can rent premises for a very reasonable amount.
Have you chosen a place? Great, now it's time to buy equipment. It will be much better if you buy computers from different manufacturers. New items on the computer market appear quite often, so you need to constantly be aware of what is being produced now. Remember that every computer must have a service warranty period. This is very important, since you are unlikely to be able to maintain a base on which you can carry out ongoing operational repairs.
Your main audience consists of people from 16 to 40 years old, most of whom mainly work on the Internet at night. Therefore, it is important that your cafe is open 24/7. If your institution has about 60 computers, then you will need 35-40 employees to maintain them. In this case, it is best to work in three shifts of eight hours. You will need one more shift, a backup, who can always go to work if necessary.
Each shift consists of eight to ten people, including: shift foreman, manager, IT specialist (preferably two), cafe workers (waiters, bartenders), instructors for inexperienced users, service center employees, security guards and other personnel.
An excellent reason to visit your cafe can be a personal approach to each client. In particular, your advantage may be the availability of special free courses for inexperienced users, the allocation of a special area for smokers, etc. Take care of all the little things that at first glance seem unnecessary to you, and then customers will want to visit your establishment again.
