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Opening a specialty coffee shop in Andorra

For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Andorra and stand behind the counter: what a first coffee shop in Andorra la Vella or Escaldes-Engordany takes to open, what it has to sell before it pays the person who works in it, and what to count before signing a lease. Four ways in, costed in euros under the rules of 2026 and set beside what the official statistics report for restaurants and bars together, every figure with its source and date. The report gives no verdict for any format and says why: no café's accounts or sales can be read, and no specialty coffee price list in Andorra may be used. The answer it can give comes first, in a four-page executive summary, and the chapters hold the evidence behind it.

190 pages · Edition 9Four-page executive summary · 25 chaptersCalculation engine · bands of readings · founder's checksAndorra · EUR · data as of 18 Oct 2026 · in English
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  • PDF for immediate download (190 pages, 25 chapters), written in English
  • A four-page executive summary right after the cover: the answer, the money, the conditions and the next step
  • Four ways of opening — take-away counter, espresso bar, café with seats and the take-over of an equipped café — run through the same engine
  • The takings each format needs for its accounts to break even, for its cash to hold and for its owner to reach the floor and market pay, as a band over asked rents, wage readings, staffing and write-offs, in euros a year and in margin a day, and in drinks a day at named price lists
  • Where those takings sit against the official figures for restaurants and bars together, with what those statistics show and what they cannot
  • The rules that cost money: IGI at 4.5 % and 1 % and the till, registration from EUR 40,000, the simplified method, sole trader against SL, the owner's CASS and the income tax, the statutory minimum wage and what an hour of staff costs, foreign hires, the parish's opening licence and activity tax, the rules for bars, the lease
  • The money to open line by line, with the costs omitted, those carried at a stand-in, the alternatives and what lies outside the plan listed beside every total; the first year of cash on four paths; a plan from the lease to month 12 with decision gates and a one-page reckoner for your own account; the reviews that tried to break the report; and every input traced to its source
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What you will see inside

Real PDF pages: cover, executive summary, charts and competitive tables.

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What's included

From the first question to the decision

Each chapter answers one question a founder asks before signing a lease, and ends with what is settled. Whatever could not be verified is declared as such, next to what could.

The answer in four pages

The report opens with a stand-alone executive summary: why no format is given a verdict and to whom the figures apply, what the reference format must take for its owner to be paid, the money to open and to live through the first year, the owner's hours, the readings that carry the result, the evidence that is missing and the three checks to make before signing a lease, each with its thresholds.

Four formats, a frontier and no verdict

A take-away counter, an espresso bar, a café with seats and the take-over of an equipped café, each with its staffing, its rent and its prices. The engine builds each from costs that can be named and prints the takings it needs as a band, never as one figure; since no specialty price can be observed in Andorra, drinks a day are given only at named price lists. What the official statistics report for restaurants and bars together is set beside it, with the reasons they cannot judge a specialty coffee shop.

The rules and what they cost

Andorra's indirect tax, IGI, on what is served against what is taken away and what the till must do, the registration threshold and the simplified method, the opening IGI and its refund, card fees, the sole trader and the SL, the owner's CASS, the income tax and its personal minimum, the statutory minimum wage from gross pay to the employer's cost, foreign hires and their quotas, the parish's opening licence, activity tax and other fees, the rules for bars, public holidays and the four-year lease.

The figures, and how to use them

What is left of a cup, the plan of each format line by line, the lines of the frontier with what each includes, the first twelve months of cash and the second year, the money to open in blocks with what could not be priced, a one-page reckoner for your own account, a risk watch system, a plan with decision gates and the case against the report itself.

Contents

The executive summary and twenty-five chapters

01 Executive summary
02 How to read this report
03 The decision
04 The market
05 What the customer pays
06 Who is already there
07 Where
08 Sole trader or SL
09 IGI and the till
10 Permits and premises
11 Staff
12 The small rules
13 What it costs to open
14 The cup
15 What the trade reports
16 The four formats and their year
17 The first year and after
18 The frontier
19 Profit or a job
20 What can and cannot be concluded
21 Risks as a watch system
22 The plan
23 Voices from the trade
24 The case against
25 Traceability
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Frequently asked

Before you buy

Who is it written for?

For a resident of Andorra who wants to open one specialty coffee shop as a first business and work in it full time. It is not written for a chain planning another unit or for an investor who will hire a manager; they will find the evidence useful and different figures.

Does it tell me whether to open?

No, and it says so on its first page. A verdict needs the sales and the owner's pay of shops like yours, and this research could read none: a company's accounts are not open to the public, a small sole trader files none, and no specialty coffee price list in Andorra may be used. What it gives instead is what each format must take for its owner to be paid, as a band; where that sits against the official figures for restaurants and bars together; the money to open; and three checks, each with its thresholds in your own units, that turn the band into an answer for your own site.

What is the executive summary?

Four pages right after the cover that can be read on their own: the answer, the money, the conditions and the next step. Every figure in it comes from the same engine as the chapters and is traced to its source there. It is part of the report and is not in the free sample.

Where do the figures come from?

From Andorra's laws, decrees and parish ordinances and tariffs in the official gazette (BOPA), the Department of Statistics' published series, the ordinary Andorran coffee lists that could be used, named French and Spanish coffee lists, Spanish official prices and tax rates, the European Central Bank, and the asked rents of a property portal and estate agencies. Every input carries its source, date and confidence level in the traceability chapter. What could not be verified is declared, not filled in, and sites whose terms forbid automated reading or commercial use were not read or not used.

Were sales observed?

No. No source that could be read states what a specialty coffee shop in Andorra sells in a day or a year. Every sales figure in the report is what a costed plan needs, labelled as such, and the report tells you how to count your own.

Which places does it cover?

The base is Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-Engordany, where most residents, hotel nights and the usable rents are. The other parishes and the ski areas are given as facts and not as costed results. There is no ranking of places.

Which currency are the figures in?

Euros of 18 October 2026, under the rules in force in 2026. French and Spanish figures are always named as such and never mixed with Andorran ones.

What language is it in?

This edition is written in English.

What format do I receive?

A PDF, delivered by email immediately after payment.

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