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For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Croatia and stand behind the bar: what the one format whose sales can be anchored really leaves its owner, whether the money put in comes back, and how far each of four formats is from paying a wage. One engine, sixty months, every figure in euros with its source and date, and the frontier at which the 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, on the same sixty-month path. The owner is a craftsman keeping business books: 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.
The price lists of 43 ordinary caffe bars and of the two specialty cafés that publish a priced menu, the official statistics of the trade, what owners say in the press, and asking rents from three estate agencies' own sites in Zagreb and Rijeka, each ground-floor advertisement listed.
The VAT on drinks and on food, the consumption tax on drinks by city, the reverse charge on building services, the craft with books, the flat-rate craft and the company, the minimum wage and the collective agreement extended to every café in 2026, the payslip, the types of establishment and their minimum conditions, hygiene, the terrace deadline and the price-list rules of autumn 2026.
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 euros and in receipts, a tornado and a price-volume matrix, a stress table with the favourable and the unfavourable readings combined, the verdict, 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 Croatia, 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 espresso bar, the one format whose sales could be anchored, at a stated base volume, the conditions under which it holds, and the sales at which it would change, so that you can check your own street against it before signing. For the take-away shop, the café with food and the take-over, whose sales rest on one statement each, it gives the figures and the sales they need, and not a verdict.
From laws and the Official Gazette, official statistics, the Tax Administration's opinions, price lists, estate agencies' advertisements and what owners state in the press. 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 (the public register needs a login), no job advertisement and no delivery-platform listing was read (their terms forbid automated collection), so pay rests on an official average and specialty prices on two menus.
The base is Zagreb. Rijeka is given its asking rent as a comparison. Split, Osijek and Zadar are described but not costed: too few advertisements of suitable units were found. There is no verdict by city.
This edition is written in English.
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