Designing Your Dream Cafe: Mastering Workflow for Efficiency and Success

Good design and layout of an espresso bar is critical in setting up your business for success. Everything needs to be carefully planned and thought through to maximize workflow & efficiency to make sure your food and beverages are being prepped and delivered in a timely, no fuss manner.

You also want to make sure it's easy for your customers to move through your shop. There should be clear paths and direction for entry and exit points, where to place orders and where to wait in takeaway situations.

It's critical that proper planning is undertaken before you start building so that you get all of your benches built to suit, as well as plumbing and electrical connected to match all of the equipment that you are wanting to install. The size and space of your cafe may limit what size and type of equipment you can use. This needs to be thought and planned very carefully before making any purchases.

In this video Luke walks you through the Artisti Espresso Bar and shows you how we've laid it out along with considerations we had to make. We hope you enjoy the video and it helps you plan and build your dream cafe so that you are kicking goals from day one!

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[dannyp.]

Pro tip: Always take into account the overall weight of everything on the bar to ensure that the bar can support all of the equipment.

[jennifermarchlewski]

I appreciate all the tips that Artisti provides to the new coffee shop entrepreneur.

[DannCaberto]

This content is so timely. We are in the process of opening a dessert cafe, and my wife and I have been on a coffee shop crawl for a month now trying to observe how shops are setting up their espresso bars, while also seeing how efficient their workflows are. I have been having so many questions and It's like you guys just read my mind. Thank you for making this video. Now I can stop staring at every espresso bars like a creep. 😂

[ToddJohnson]

Excellent detail. The front of my pop-up are two Bror workbenches at 110 cm length each and 55cm deep. The first is the cash drawer and POS cart that doubles as a cup counter, tea bag display and roasted bags of coffee display. The second has an e65 GbW, pitcher rinser, and countersunk decent espresso, plus three pitchers, two portafilters, and a countersunk knockbox. THis is really cramped. There is almost no place to line up cups, so I use the shelf below the table tap, but that also holds other gear. I make it work, but its super tight.

[bacca]

Very efficient and effective cafe layout!

[kingeightytwo]

Excellent video. I work in the industry and I’m finally opening up my own space. This is the most concise video resource I’ve found. Thank you 🙌

[shipsandboatspassingbyonth]

Thank you for practical tips on how to organize the area around an espresso machine!

[kopukcoffeeshop]

Another great video! Thank you guys
Hi from Antalya Türkiye :)

[ljybieu]

Must needed video for my next cafe.thank you so much Artisti

[dougalrobb]

Great, concise, video. Cant thank you enough for the invaluable information.
We're about to set up a coffee bar & kitchen - also in an industrial warehouse.
Brilliant! Thanks so much.

[_pelicans]

Lots of fantastic content Jimmy and Luke!!

[pespesle]

Thank you for your kind and informative discrption.

[Perneir]

Whoa is that another 2 group Lamarcuzzo in the training room? Jeez $$

[JannatulAdnin]

How I wish do have a lot of money to make a beautiful cafe like this... 😜😁😁

[qmboyd]

noice jean shorts! you aussies have some style.

[lifeofreilly]

Any advice for someone wanting to set up a mobile coffee truck? Love your content 🙌🏻

[schmon]

I wish this video existed 2 years ago :')

[j.p.mcleod]

One of your best yet, thank you so much! Do you offer the I-milk to USA customers ?

[levitauaa]

Great video with uselful info. I know coffee is the star of the show, but as for food, for a small espresso bar, what kind of food do you recommend to have to go with coffee? keeping it simple without having to have major kitchen set up?

[angelinmerisma]

How much capital you needed to get the shop of the ground mate?