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For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Austria and stand behind the bar: which of four formats to choose, what it really pays its owner, and whether the money put in comes back. One engine, sixty months, every figure with its source and date, and the frontier at which each answer changes, so that you can replace our assumption with a count of your own site.
Real PDF pages: cover, executive summary, charts and competitive tables.
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.
A to-go window, an espresso bar, a café with food and the take-over of an equipped café, each with its build, its staff, its rent and its volume, judged on the same sixty-month path. The owner is a sole trader: the pay is the profit after social insurance and income tax, set against what the same hours earn under the collective agreement.
Seventeen specialty menus read in Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck, the Kaffeehaus and the bakery chains beside them, the companies whose balance sheets can be read, and asking rents by zone in five cities.
The VAT rate on a coffee drink with or without milk, the cash-register duty, the company form, the collective agreement and the full cost of an employee, the eight-place line, the permit for the premises, and what the tenancy act lets a landlord do when a café changes hands.
The investment line by line, the cup cascade, the fixed costs, the monthly and five-year accounts, the frontier in receipts a day, a tornado and a price-volume matrix, a stress table, the verdict for each format, a risk watch system and a plan with decision gates.
The engine set against the sector's figures, three adversarial reviews and an independent audit with what each changed, every input with its source, date and confidence level, and the address of every source.
Charts and tables built from the same engine, each with its source.
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For an Austrian resident, or someone settling in Austria, who wants to open one specialty coffee shop as a first business and run it personally. 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 a different verdict.
Yes. It gives a verdict for each of the four formats at a stated base volume, the conditions under which it holds, and the receipts a day at which it would change, so that you can check your own site against it before signing.
From laws and official statistics, the collective agreement, filed balance sheets, price lists, rental advertisements and seventeen menus read in September and October 2026. Every input carries its source, date and confidence level in the traceability chapter. What could not be verified is declared, not filled in: the base volumes, for one, are assumptions, because no Austrian café publishes its receipts.
The verdict is for Vienna. Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Linz are given their rents and costs; menu prices were found in Salzburg and Innsbruck only, on two and three menus, and none in Graz or Linz, and the report says so.
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