Coffee Cart Tips
Take your program to the next level with these tips
Introduce your business to your campus!
Advertising your coffee cart to your future customers is so important! Explaining what you are doing and why it is important will draw your customers in and keep them coming back!
Here are a few ways you can make a big impression on your campus with the intent of introducing your coffee cart…
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Host a Grand Opening or Grand Re-Opening
Create ‘hype’ around your coffee cart by planning an event for your customers to stop by. A Grand Opening is a great way to introduce your campus to this new program before you officially open. If you already have a coffee cart, you can host a Re-Opening to reintroduce your program. Grand Opening or Grand Re-Openings can be done however you want!
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Park your coffee cart outside your classroom during a break, passing period, or lunch and offer free coffee and treats. This will allow your customers to taste your product before purchasing in the future. Who doesn’t like free coffee?
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Have your students go around to each classroom to introduce your coffee cart and offer a free tasting! Who doesn’t want door service?
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Make a video promotional video
Make a video of your students explaining the coffee cart and what your plans are to send out via email!​ Having your customers see the faces of your students will help make the connection of what you are doing and the message behind it.
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Create an eye catching flyer
Canva is a great tool for teachers and educators who want to make a fun and exciting looking flyer. This site is very user friendly and can transform your coffee cart into looking like a real business! Creating a flyer to put in staff members' mailboxes is a great advertising technique! Your flyer should have information about your coffee cart such as what you plan to do, why this program is important, when/ where you plan to sell, etc. Here are some helpful blurbs, feel free to use!
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Our motivation as special educators is to prepare our students as much as we can for adulthood. Every order we receive for our coffee cart is an opportunity for our students to practice vocational skills that will help them succeed in the future. Every step of the process is beneficial to our students and their future! Our students are able to take orders, make drinks, stamp cups, count money, and stock shelves just as they would at a real job site. Our hope is that our students will take these vocational skills from our classrooms to their future workplace.
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Our coffee cart is a vocational program that provides students with disabilities the opportunity to practice life skills. Our cart is run by the our life skills students which teaches vocational skills. We're open every Tuesday and Thursday in room 10!
Expand your menu!
Our cart comes with everything you need to make and sell hot coffee, however, you can expand your menu to hot teas, hot chocolate, iced coffee, etc.
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Our suggestion: Start with hot coffee and master those skills, then expand your menu to what will be popular at your site!
There's a job for everyone!
The coffee cart includes every student! There is a job for every student... here are some ideas!
SET UP
CLEAN UP
DELIVERY
TAKING ORDERS
CASHIER
STOCKING