Each coffee business requires investment and returns.

Many of our clients are already very familiar with their business, their roasting operation and simply replace existing machinery or expand their operations.

However, for the pioneers and entrepreneurs who are considering to start a cafe or small commercial roasting unit, and before making the investment into a commercial coffee roasting machine, conducting prior analysis of return on investment (ROI) is a very useful exercise.

Upon studying feasibility of your project based on assumptions, it puts you into a much more comfortable position to invest.

You may have an already established cafe that purchases roasted coffee and when you are considering to roast in-house, this activity has the potential to create even higher ROI and competency for your business. It certainly requires more work and refined skills but it may be to your surprise how profitable an investment into a commercial coffee roasting machine could turn out to be.

For the purpose of running numbers we developed a tool which can help you calculate your ROI based on sales volume, whether it is bagged coffee or by cup. The file runs on excel and all you need to do is fill in the variable fields depending on your specific business scenario and country and upon which the file will make all necessary calculations to determine the costs in relation to the sales revenue generated.

This tool is entirely free and you can download here: