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Opening a specialty coffee shop in Romania

For the founder who wants to open one specialty café in Romania 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.

71 pages · Edition 826 chapters · four formatsCalculation engine · frontier · stress testsRomania · data as of 29 Sep 2026 · in English
€299/ individual licence
  • PDF for immediate download (71 pages, 26 chapters), written in English
  • Four ways of opening — to-go kiosk, espresso bar, café with brunch and 5 to go franchise unit — run through the same engine, so they can be compared
  • The answer on the first pages: the verdict for each format, the figures that hold it up, its conditions and what the report could not close
  • The frontier: for each format, the receipts a day at which it pays its bills, pays its owner the minimum wage, pays the market and gives the money back
  • Taxes as they are enforced, not as they read: VAT on coffee and food, the micro-enterprise regime, dividends and health contribution, the payroll floor for part-timers
  • The engine checked against the filed accounts of real Romanian specialty cafés
  • A 90-day plan with decision gates, 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.

Four formats, one engine

A to-go kiosk, an espresso bar, a café with brunch and a 5 to go franchise unit, each with its build, its staff, its rent and its volume, judged on the same sixty-month path with the ramp of the first years and the season of every month. The owner's pay is what an SRL can legally pay its shareholder, set against the market value of the owner's hours.

The market, the price and the competition

Thirty menus read on one day, the national to-go chain and the premium chains, the specialty scene of Bucharest mapped area by area, rents by street, and what the cafés that file their accounts really sell and keep.

The rules and what they cost

The VAT rate the tax authority enforces on a cup, and the competitors who charge a different one; the company and its tax regime; the net-wage market and the part-time trap; the permits of the city halls and the one consent that decides whether a unit can become a café.

The decision, and how to act on it

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 90-day plan with decision gates.

The evidence

The engine checked against filed accounts, the reviews that tried to break the report and what they changed, every input with its source, date and confidence level, and the sources behind every figure.

Contents

The twenty-six chapters

01 Read this first
02 How to read this report
03 The decision
04 The market
05 The price
06 Competition
07 Where
08 Company and income tax
09 VAT
10 Permits
11 Staff
12 The small rules
13 The investment
14 The cup
15 Fixed costs
16 The four formats
17 Five years
18 What decides
19 The owner's pay
20 The verdict
21 Risks
22 The plan
23 Voices
24 The case against
25 Traceability
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Charts and tables built from the same engine, each with its source.

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Frequently asked

Before you buy

Who is it written for?

For a Romanian resident, or someone settling in Romania, who wants to open one specialty coffee shop as a first business and run it personally. It is not written for a chain planning its twentieth unit or for an investor who will hire a manager; they will find the evidence useful and a different verdict.

Does it tell me whether to open?

Yes. It gives a verdict for each of the four formats, the conditions under which it holds, and the number of receipts a day at which it would change, so that you can check your own site against it before signing.

Where do the figures come from?

From laws and official statistics, the tax authority's own positions, filed company accounts, price lists and thirty menus read on 29 September 2026. Every input carries its source, date and confidence level in the traceability chapter. What could not be verified is declared, not filled in.

What currency is used?

Lei (RON) for everything paid in Romania and euros where the market quotes in euros — rents, equipment, franchises — at the central bank's rate of 28 September 2026.

What language is it in?

This edition is written in English.

What format do I receive?

A PDF, delivered by email immediately after payment.

Make the decision with data, not intuition

It saves you weeks of research and the risk of entering blind a market you don't know.

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