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For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Cyprus and stand behind the bar: which of four formats to choose, what it really leaves its owner, and whether the money put in comes back. One engine, sixty months, every figure in euros 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 street.
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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 take-away shop, 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 self-employed: the result is the profit after contributions and income tax, split into the cash of the month and the build written off, and set against the minimum wage and the market wage for the same hours.
A price audit of 136 independent venues read on 5 October 2026, 53 of them specialty cafés, the chains and the international brands beside them, the counter volumes found in the press, and asking rents for shops and for units advertised for catering in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca.
The VAT on a coffee at the table and to go, the temporary zero rate and the readings nobody has settled, the reverse charge on building services, the 2026 income-tax bands, the self-employed owner's social insurance, health contribution and training levy, the company as the other route, the minimum wage, the payslip, the 1968 law of catering establishments, the tourism licence and its plan criteria, the municipal licence, toilets and parking.
The investment line by line, the cup cascade, the fixed costs and the costs no price list names, 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 with an anchor, a risk watch system and a plan with decision gates.
Charts and tables built from the same engine, each with its source.
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For a resident of Cyprus, or someone settling there, 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.
It gives a verdict for the two formats whose sales could be anchored, the espresso bar and the take-over, 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 street against it before signing. For the take-away shop and the café with food, whose sales rest on one seller's statement each, it gives the receipts they need and not a verdict.
From laws and official statistics, the Tax Department's circulars, price lists, job and rental advertisements, advertisements of businesses for sale and a price audit of 136 venues read on 5 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: no company account was read, so the engine is set against the official statistics of cafés, bars and traditional coffee houses together, and the base volumes are derived from sales and never counted, because this research found no Cypriot café that publishes its receipts.
The verdict is for Nicosia. Limassol and Larnaca are given their asking rents and advertised pay as a cost comparison, not as verdicts, because the report has no evidence of what a shop sells there. Paphos and the Ayia Napa and Paralimni coast are described but not costed: too few advertisements of suitable units were found.
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