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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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.
Charts and tables built from the same engine, each with its source.





A few pages from the report. The free sample contains the cover and the contents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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