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I really like the idea, but are you sure you'd be able to sell enough milk and cookies to make up for the cost of running the place? Seems like the only way to

• thaumaturgy 18y ago
  | I really like the idea, but are you sure you'd be able to sell enough milk and cookies to make up for the cost of running the place? That's what I'm wondering. Specifically, coffee shops get by (barely, in some cases) by taking relatively inexpensive ingredients, and adding value to them in the form of a barista that mixes them up in hopefully really tasty ways. I don't see how you can do that with milk. They might be able to bring in some of the world's finest cocoa powder and come up with a chocolate milk recipe that blows everybody away, but after that ... then what? How do they plan on running a coffee house model without the coffee revenues? Also, LA rent has gotta not be cheap, especially in the market areas they would want to target. Maybe something like this would be better somewhere on the edges of the Valley, where rents would be less but they'd still have the right crowd?