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For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Greece and stand behind the bar: what each of four formats must sell to cover every payment, to pay its owner the minimum wage and to pay a market wage, on two readings of the staff, and what it takes to open. One engine built from costs that can be named, sixty months, every figure in euros with its source and date. The report gives no verdict for any format and says why: it could read no sales of a comparable shop. It gives you the figures to set against 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 bought-in food and the take-over of an equipped café, each with its build, its staff, its rent and its prices, on the same sixty-month path. The owner is a sole proprietor: the result is the profit after contributions and income tax, kept apart from the cash of the month, and set against the minimum wage and against what the same hours earn in someone else's café. Every format is worked on two rotas of equal weight, a lean one and a staffed one.
The freddo and the cup to go, the chains and what their catalogues charge, served prices from three cafés' own price lists and to-go prices from four lists, the official statistics of the trade and why the engine is not fitted to them, and asking rents from one agency network's own site in Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Patras and Heraklion.
The two VAT rates on one drink and the contested border between them, the VAT on the build paid and recovered later, the sole proprietorship and the single-member company, social contributions due with a loss, the presumed minimum income and its phase-in, the tax deduction of a tenant's works over the years of the lease, the catering agreement binding since May 2026, the payslip, seats and toilets, the notification, pavement tables, music and cups.
The investment line by line, what is left of a freddo espresso served and to go, the monthly account and the five-year path, the ladder of sales in euros and in receipts a day, a band that holds every row of the report and any two readings together, a stress table, why no verdict is given and what evidence would allow one, 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 Greece, 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 different figures.
No, and it says so on the first page. A verdict needs the sales of shops like yours, and this research could read none: company accounts, job advertisements and delivery-platform listings were not read, and the official statistics describe another kind of firm. What it gives instead is the sales a year and the takings a day each format needs to cover its payments, to pay its owner the minimum wage and to pay a market wage, on a lean and on a staffed rota, with the money needed to open, so that you can count your own street against them before signing.
From laws and the Government Gazette, circulars of the tax authority, official statistics, the catering collective agreement, price lists, one agency network's advertisements and what the trade states 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: several legal texts were read in a private legal database's copy and not on the authority's own site, and the report says which.
The base is Athens, by district. Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion and Larissa are given as facts — asking rents, seasonality, pavement-table fees — and not as costed results. There is no ranking of cities.
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