Meridian Coffee House

A success tip for a beneficial menu in your coffee shop is to offer a “Wide” variety of “teas”. Not everyone is a coffee drinker, and if you don’t already have the big fad of Chai as a selection, you’re losing business.  But in addition to Chai tea, why not offer Thai iced tea? add that to the Starbuck’s award winning concept of being in a frappacino and you’ve got gold … Starbucks sells an incredible amount of chai frappacino’s, especially during the summer. Herbs are cheap, and available in bulk from your local herb shop. In addition, you can buy the herbs cheap in bulk from Frontier Herb or San Francisco Herb Company via mail. Offering selections like “licorice”, “chamomile”, “echinacea”, etc.  and letting out the positive aspects of their qualities will increase customer dependence, especially when a customer gets a cold and comes in for a cup of echinacea every day till the cold is gone, or a sore throat alleved by licorice.  Dried herb plus hot water - very little cost in that. Sun tea - add a few containers to your roof and offer fresh sun brewed tea … its amazing how rich these teas taste and how much your customers will appreciate it if you advertise it right.

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