A Canadian entrepreneur recently travelled across the country to highlight a mobile coffee business model that he says offers aspiring business owners a lower-cost way to enter the specialty coffee industry while connecting with existing customers along the way.
Vladislav Priadko, chief executive officer of Vladvik Holding Inc., said the cross-country tour took him through different communities to visit Coffee Bike owners, document how the concept fits different locations and showcase the bicycle-based cafés to potential customers and entrepreneurs.
Priadko said he built the first Coffee Bike in 2018 and has since sold 42 units to 27 owners. He said the tour was intended to demonstrate how the businesses can operate in a range of communities while strengthening relationships with current owners and introducing the concept to new audiences.
“If someone would want to launch a turnkey Coffee Bike, it would be an average of $27,000 Canadian after tax and shipping,” he explained.
“Essentially, Coffee Bike is a relatively low-investment-barrier opportunity to test your entrepreneurial skills and launch a coffee business with minimum overhead costs, or, if you have an existing business, to add an additional revenue stream to your business.
“Why people choose it over other concepts out there—there are some cars, there are some trucks, etc.—is because we have developed Coffee Bike, and I have developed Coffee Bike only after serving more than one million cups of coffee in Vancouver, Canada, with our own units. So we have really perfected the actual hardware. It’s built by baristas for baristas, as opposed to regular manufacturers who build out of mostly theoretical knowledge.”
Priadko said the company sells in the U.S. and it currently has eight owners south of the border in California, Portland, Michigan, New York, and Florida.
“We have a lot of inquiries from all over the States.”
The Vancouver-based company in 2024 launched a crowdfunding initiative through Indiegogo to expand its innovative mobile espresso bar concept globally.
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