60 Full Lessons
Learn the business behind the coffee, from choosing your concept to budgeting, equipment, staffing, and daily operations. Quizzes and Guided Notes help it stick.
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COFFEE CARTS. TRAILERS. CAFÉS.
The lessons, business tools, AI assistant, and barista training to help you plan, open, and run your coffee business.
One membership. Everything below included.
Real experience from By the Sea Coffee, a mobile espresso business in Massachusetts.
MORE THAN A COURSE
Start with the question in front of you, or follow the Roadmap from your first idea onward.
Learn the business behind the coffee, from choosing your concept to budgeting, equipment, staffing, and daily operations. Quizzes and Guided Notes help it stick.
Explore the 60-step RoadmapBuild your startup budget, calculate drink costs, plan your menu, track finances, and quote events using your own numbers. Includes the Business Plan Builder.
See the toolsAsk Coffee Academy searches our coffee-business research to help you work through your idea, costs, equipment, or next operating decision.
Meet Ask Coffee AcademyTurn your concept, customers, market research, and financial assumptions into one working business plan. Edit it as you go, then download or print your draft.
Explore the plan builderTrain for the work behind the counter: espresso, milk, drink building, cleaning, and consistency. Includes recipe references, knowledge checks, and a printable checklist.
Explore Barista TrainerDownload editable employment documents, from offer letters and agreements to handbooks and onboarding checklists. Build customized drafts with four guided builders in beta.
Preview the document suiteChoose a coffee cart, trailer, or café path. Work through focused guides and worksheets to organize your concept, setup, budget, and first launch decisions.
Look inside the ToolkitFind coffee-business owners and professionals whose experience fits your questions. Membership includes private messaging; separate mentor services may cost extra.
Browse mentorsAsk questions alongside the lessons, compare experiences, and talk through decisions with other members. Keep learning as your business grows.
Explore the communityThe Business Plan Builder is one of the 18 tools. Document builders are in beta; templates and generated drafts should be adapted and reviewed for your business.
ONE CLEAR PATH
Four phases. Practical business decisions. Start at the beginning or jump to what you need.
Choose your concept. Understand your customers. Build your plan.
Work out your budget, equipment, permits, and setup.
Price your menu. Train your team. Run your daily service.
Evaluate events, marketing, and your next stage of growth.
THE TOOLS, BY NAME
Plan costs, test prices, organize service, and track what matters. Your membership includes all 18.
Start with the Business Plan Builder and Opening Budget & Quotes. Put your concept and expected costs in one place.
Use the drink-cost calculators and Menu Builder to work through ingredients, prices, and the drinks you want to serve.
Combine editable employment templates with Barista Trainer lessons, recipe references, and the printable checklist.
BEFORE YOU JOIN
Yes if you are exploring, opening, or running a coffee cart, trailer, or café. Follow the Roadmap in order or choose the lessons and tools that fit your current work. You do not need to be ready to open.
Yes. An active All Access membership includes the available lessons, business tools, Ask Coffee Academy, Barista Trainer, Quick Start Toolkit, Employment Document Suite, document builders, member discussions, and private messaging. Separate services sold by individual mentors are not included.
All Access is currently $19.99/month at our limited-time founder price. Founder pricing won’t last forever. Your subscription is billed monthly, and you can cancel anytime.
The complete Roadmap has 60 Step overviews. There are 60 published Full Lessons with quizzes, Guided Notes for selected Steps, and eight separate Barista Trainer lessons. The Full Lesson count above reflects published content.
Ask a coffee-business question and add context about your setup. Our AI assistant searches Coffee Academy’s research to help explain options and next steps. Member-preview usage limits apply, and AI answers can make mistakes.
Choose Join at founder pricing, create an account or sign in, then review the membership terms and continue to secure checkout. Member access opens after payment is confirmed.
Yes. Cancel through Manage billing; ordinary cancellation keeps access through your paid period. You can request a full refund within seven days of your first payment. A completed refund ends paid access, and the first-payment guarantee does not restart when you rejoin.
Membership includes private messaging so you can contact mentors. A response is not guaranteed; individual mentors set the availability and fees for any separate services.
LIMITED-TIME FOUNDER PRICING
Get All Access for $19.99/month. Cancel anytime.