Today, is the third day since I opened my small coffee shop. My parents had given me a nice frame to put my first dollar from working in. I had to sneak in a dollar from my own wallet so they wouldn't know how bad business was when they came to visit. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, it's the fourth day since my partner and I opened our store. Opening day was great, but since then we have had a grand total of two customers. We spent our entire life savings on this. FML
Today, I opened my new clothing store. My only customer was my mom and the only reason she came in was to tell me that someone stole my sign. FML
Today, was my first day at my new job in a shop. 10 minutes after my first customer leaves I realize she managed to steal $200 worth of merchandise while she had me getting stuff for her from the back room. FML
Today, I opened my own flower shop. My mom's response was, "Get a job." FML
Today, I'm so poor that I've been scrounging around my house all day trying to find quarters and dimes so that I can buy myself a cup of coffee tomorrow. FML
Today, I got fired from my new job. It was the start of my third week, and I got fired for not opening the store. The manager forgot to give me keys to open the store, and was two hours late. FML
Today, a woman came through my drive-thru and ordered a latte, but the bank had closed off her cards and she was short 30 cents in cash. I felt bad, so I paid for her. When I went home, I told my dad what I did, thinking he'd be proud of how he raised me but no, he said I'd wasted my money, and made me feel bad about it. FML
Today, it was my second day working as a cashier in a drug store. I thought everything went great, but by the end of my shift, my cash register was $10 short. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad if on my first day it hadn't been $30 short. FML
Today, it was my first day at work as a waitress. The day ended with me owing my employers money, after I accidentally smashed an expensive bottle of wine on the floor. FML
Today, I was in the mood for some coffee, which is right down the street. I brought ten dollars with me, not knowing how much I'd need. When I approached the counter, the barista looked at my hand holding the ten-dollar bill and said, "Oh, our cheap things are on the left side of the menu." FML
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XtraEzeee 8
Maybe you need to rethink your business plan.
moonpiglet 4
Things will pick up. Just need a few people to spread the word
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TShaunik 12
You need to look up Dave Ramsey. I opened a small business and that talk show host and author has all sorts of excellent info about running a business. Can't highly recommend his book Entreleadership enough. It's a absolute must read for business people! Guarantee it will help you out!
Link7130 4
If you came to my little backwater town, your business would be booming with high schoolers.
Sakuraashita 15
Have a free coffee sampling day, advertise the heck out of it... Then sell people small bags of the same stuff you're sampling, but make the bags more expensive than just coming in and buying a cup so that people will overvalue the coffee and be inclined to come back as soon as their tiny bags run out.
fantasyworld 39
It's going to start off slow before picking up. The key is to getting the word out, so advertise, give out free samples and coupons.