Summary
Established Canberra coffee roastery and café with on-site roasting, strong local trade, wholesale potential and multiple revenue streams.
Revenue
$1,460,000 pa
Location Details
Prime industrial location with café, roastery, indoor/outdoor seating, strong weekday trade and a relaxed outdoor area suited to customers and corporate clients.
Potential
Strong growth potential through wholesale coffee supply, online coffee sales, subscriptions, catering, corporate accounts, barista training and event coffee carts. The roastery gives the buyer control over product, brand and margins, with several revenue streams beyond standard café trade. A motivated buyer could further grow retail coffee, white-label supply, local partnerships and digital sales.
Skills
Ideal for an owner-operator, experienced café operator, coffee roaster or hospitality group. Coffee knowledge would be helpful, but the business also suits a motivated buyer with strong customer service, staff management, marketing and business development skills. Support from existing systems, equipment and established workflow may assist with a smooth transition.
Hours
Currently suited to strong weekday trade, with scope to expand weekends, events, wholesale production or online sales.
Lease
Fixed-location café and roastery premises in Mitchell. Lease details available to genuine buyers during enquiry.
Employees
Established operation with systems, equipment and workflow in place. Staffing details can be discussed with genuine buyers after confidentiality is completed. business may suit an owner-operator or a managed hospitality model depending on buyer.
Reason for Sale
The owner is planning to relocate interstate, creating an opportunity for a buyer to acquire an established Canberra coffee roastery and café with the fit-out, equipment, customer base, systems and growth platform already in place. The sale is not due to a lack of opportunity; the business offers several clear pathways for expansion.
About the Business
This is a rare opportunity to acquire an established Canberra coffee roastery and café with multiple revenue streams, strong local positioning and significant growth potential. The business combines a working café, on-site coffee roasting operation, wholesale coffee capability, training potential and event-ready hospitality offering in one fixed-location premises. The café has been designed to service both regular local trade and destination customers. It includes indoor dining, takeaway flow, a wide and accessible entry, and a standout outdoor seating area that gives the venue a strong point of difference. The outdoor space includes an all-season retractable awning with integrated lighting, quality tiled flooring, custom pathways, integrated gardens, planters and hardwood café furniture. The surrounding grassy area and established Australian gums create a relaxed atmosphere that is uncommon in many commercial or industrial café locations.
At the centre of the business is the roastery. This gives the purchaser the ability to control coffee quality, develop branded products, grow wholesale supply, service corporate accounts and expand into retail coffee, subscriptions and online sales. Unlike a standard café that relies mainly on counter trade, this business has the structure to generate revenue through café sales, roasted coffee, wholesale supply, catering, training, events, mobile coffee service and branded retail products.
The business may suit an owner-operator, experienced café operator, coffee roaster, hospitality group or motivated buyer wanting to enter the specialty coffee industry with an established platform already in place. Coffee knowledge would be helpful, but the opportunity is also well suited to a buyer with strong customer service, staff management, marketing and business development skills.
There are several realistic growth opportunities available to the purchaser. These include expanding wholesale coffee accounts, building online coffee sales, launching or scaling coffee subscriptions, increasing catering and corporate orders, developing barista training programs, growing weekend or event trade, creating more branded retail products, strengthening social media and digital marketing, and building partnerships with offices, venues and local businesses.
The sale includes the benefit of an established operation with equipment, workflow and systems already in place. Information, including financials, equipment details, lease and staffing arrangements, can be provided to genuine buyers following enquiry and confidentiality.
History
The business has been built over many years as a Canberra coffee roastery and café with a focus on quality coffee, local customers, training, wholesale supply and hospitality. It has developed from a café into a broader coffee platform with roasting, retail, B2B and growth opportunities. The foundations are in place for a new owner to continue operating as is or expand further into wholesale, online, training and events.
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