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Business Type: Italian Ice Cream and Pastries
Industry: Food
Minimum Cash Requirement: $26k
Total Start-up Investment (cash plus financing): $400k
Minimum Net Worth: $125k
Business Location: Store Front
Market Class: Business to Consumer
Business Model: Owner-Operator/Semi-Absentee

Concept Overview

This concept is a fresh, new experience that not only excites the customer but is also a great business opportunity.  It features high quality gelato, crepes, coffee, smoothies and other drinks.  This strategy is a simple one - provide the customer with a special purchase experience. 

We serve traditional gelato, as well as a host of other delicious products. Gelatos intense flavors and creamy texture come from the density not the fat.  In fact all their sorbetto flavors are fat free and our gelato flavors have significantly lower fat content than regular ice cream. Their use milk as opposed to butter fat, and they increase the density by reducing the air content significantly as compared to regular ice cream.

Authentic Italian gelato and sorbetto has been loved for hundreds of years in Italy, but has yet to be fully exposed to consumers in the U.S. and other countries.

With a commitment to friendly, individual attention to the customer, the overall caf and gelato bar experience for business owners, employees, and guests is always unique, entertaining, and appealing

Competitive Landscape

In the already immense retail ice cream market, this concept brings a new, exciting approach in an under represented sector. Authentic Italian gelato and sorbetto has been loved for hundreds of years, but has yet to be fully exposed to consumers in the U.S. and other countries.

This concept leverages the universal appeal and enormous volume of ice cream sales and consumption in the United States and the world, but they offer something different. They also offer coffee, smoothies, Italian sodas, and pastries -- providing not just a treat for everyone, but also an opportunity for multiple revenue streams for store owners.

Owner Profile

Owners should have a number of qualities: do you finish what you start, are you systematic, are you a risk taker, are you a leader, do you feel comfortable promoting yourself and your business, and are you a people person?

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