- Asking Price: $288,500
- Gross Revenue: Approximately $700,000+ annually
- Base Rent: Approximately $6,196/month, plus CAM
- Location: Concord / Charlotte Metro, North Carolina
- Business Type: Café, Coffee, Specialty Beverages, Desserts & Light Food
- Sale Type: Turnkey operating business
- Reason for Sale: Owner pursuing other business and investment interests
Business Description
Confidential opportunity to acquire an established, high-volume café and specialty beverage business in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
The business has developed a strong local following and generates approximately $700,000+ in annual revenue from a diversified menu that includes specialty coffee, espresso beverages, energy drinks, dirty sodas, lemonades, grab-and-go beverages, ice cream, açaí bowls, food and retail products.
This is not a startup or concept-stage opportunity. The business is fully operating with an established customer base, trained staff, equipment, vendor relationships, operating procedures, social media presence and brand recognition already in place.
The business is well suited for an owner-operator, experienced hospitality entrepreneur, multi-unit restaurant operator or investor looking for an established concept with meaningful growth opportunities.
Investment Highlights
- Approximately **$700,000+ in annual revenue**
- Established operation with multiple years of operating history
- Strong local brand recognition
- Established social media audience of approximately **12,000 followers**
- Trained team already in place
- Documented operating and training procedures
- Established vendor relationships
- Fully equipped and turnkey
- Diversified revenue across beverages, food, desserts and retail
- Attractive Charlottearea location
- Significant opportunity to improve profitability through labor, pricing and cost controls
- Additional growth potential through catering, events, memberships, delivery, retail products and expanded marketing
- Seller available to provide transition and training
Products & Revenue Streams
The concept has evolved beyond a traditional coffee shop and operates across several complementary categories:
- Espresso and specialty coffee
- Hot and iced lattes
- Energy drinks
- Dirty sodas
- Lemonades and specialty refreshers
- Grabandgo bottled beverages
- Ice cream and desserts
- Açaí bowls
- Breakfast and lunch items
- Retail merchandise
- Delivery
- Events and community partnerships
The broad product mix reduces dependence on traditional coffee sales alone and provides multiple opportunities for upselling and increasing average customer spend.
Brand & Marketing
The business has built a recognizable local brand and an established digital audience, including approximately 12,000 social media followers.
Marketing infrastructure and opportunities include:
- Instagram and Meta advertising
- Customer loyalty initiatives
- Community partnerships
- Local events
- College and university marketing
- Membership programs
- Influencer and local media partnerships
- Seasonal product launches
A buyer will inherit an established audience rather than having to build awareness from zero.
Operations
The business is currently staffed and operating.
The seller has invested substantial time into creating systems for:
- Opening and closing procedures
- Drink preparation
- Food preparation
- Customer service
- Cleaning
- Ordering
- Vendor management
- Employee training
- Scheduling
- Events
- Management responsibilities
The existing operating structure provides a buyer with a foundation for reducing owner dependency and transitioning toward a manager-led business.
Growth Opportunities
Catering & Corporate Business
Develop dedicated catering packages for offices, schools, churches, corporate events and private functions.
Membership Program
Expand recurring revenue through customer membership and beverage-club initiatives.
Events
Increase frequency of profitable events, private rentals, tastings, classes and collaborations.
College Marketing
The business is positioned within reach of a large university population, creating additional opportunity for student-focused promotions and partnerships.
Retail & Packaged Products
Expand branded merchandise, packaged coffee, grab-and-go products and other high-margin retail offerings.
Delivery/DoorDash
Further optimize third-party delivery and direct ordering.
Labor & Cost Optimization
An experienced operator may identify meaningful opportunities to improve margins through scheduling, purchasing, pricing, waste reduction and menu engineering.
Additional Locations
The established brand, systems and product mix provide the foundation for additional locations, kiosks or other expansion formats if desired.
Facilities & Lease
The business operates from an established retail location in the Charlotte metro market.
Current **base rent is approximately $6,196 per month, plus CAM charges**.
The sale includes the furniture, fixtures and equipment necessary to continue operating the business, subject to the final asset list included in the purchase agreement.
Training & Transition
The seller is willing to provide a reasonable transition period to introduce the buyer to:
- Employees
- Vendors
- Operating systems
- Recipes and product procedures
- Marketing platforms
- Customer programs
- Community relationships
- Daily operating procedures
Additional transition arrangements can be negotiated depending on buyer needs.
Ideal Buyer
This opportunity may be particularly attractive to:
- Experienced café or restaurant operators
- Multiunit hospitality groups
- Owneroperators
- Couples or families seeking an established business
- Franchise buyers considering an independent alternative
- Entrepreneurs seeking an existing operating business
- Investors partnered with an experienced operating manager
Reason for Sale
The owner is pursuing other business, investment and entrepreneurial opportunities and is looking to transition out of day-to-day hospitality operations.
The sale is not being driven by a business closure.
Confidentiality
The business is currently operating and employees and customers have not been informed that the business is being offered for sale.
For that reason, **please do not contact employees or visit the business to discuss the sale.**
Additional information, including business identity, detailed financial information, equipment lists and operating information, will be provided to qualified buyers following execution of a confidentiality agreement.
Proof of funds and/or financing qualifications may be requested before detailed financial information or management meetings are provided.
**Serious and financially qualified inquiries only.**
