opening a coffee shop with an internet cafe

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labratza

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Hi there

I would just like to find out from you people out there.

Looking at moving to a small town next year my home town, Queenstown and thinking of opening a Coffee shop with internet cafe and also a wifi hotspot.

What software would I need for a wifi hotspot and software for the internet cafe cos also looking at using the pc's for lan games for the youth there and on weekends have specials running.

So I need to know how would I go about setting it up and what would the ideal amount of computers be and what software do I need so that when the users time is up it locks there screens.

also would it be viable to go for an uncapped express account or should I just go with a cap account which is the better option

Your help would be gladly appreciated.
 
Queenstown?

Why not open up where you are living now? Do you think Q'town will be worth a try?
 
I did some arithmetic on holiday once while using an internet cafe. I never saw more then 6 or 7 people there at any time I was there. They charged R15 an hour. Ok so R15*7*30*12= R37800
I think thats the maximum assumption and that is turnover. Minus PC costs, Internet costs Rent electicity etc. Hardly a good business plan?
 
well it is going to be a coffee shop aswell that is going to be the main approach with internet access on the side.

also I am sure the gaming side of it should do OK as Queenstown there is not much gaming places like there is here in JHB and not as many people can afford a computer there so this will be a great help to the youth there that needs to do research for school work and that.

there is a internet cafe there already but want to undercut there prices.
 
anyone opening an internet cafe as the sole source of income is probably gonna suffer these days. But putting internet into a Cafe, who's main business is to sell food and drink - may attact more customers due to its value-add. I know, the majority of coffee places I visit i do so cause of wifi.

Having said that, Skyrove looked good. There's also LOTS of proprietory wifi routers out there that are sold with "ticket printers" and so you basically plug it into your DSL line, fire it up and your ticket printer "issues" printed slips with codes set for how long a client can surf. The router manages the data etc.

I think, most of these actually do the managing of codes, bandwidth used, speed rules etc via a 3rd party website so they might be subs fees there too.
 
Labratza: Have you done market research into the income potential of a coffee shop (without the internet side of things) in Queenstown? How many others are there? How are they doing? How are they going to react to competition from a new kid on the block? If there aren't any, why aren't there any?

Naks: Do you work in Technopark and live in GBay?
 
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