How to open a juice bar: 8 simple steps

The first thing is to assess the possibilities and be original. So let’s see a few recommendations for starting a juice bar.

What is a juice bar?

A juice bar as it name indicates in English is a bar that serves juices. Although one can offer other types of beverages, it will be centred on juices, which will be its main product.

However, it not only involves having a juicer or blender to prepare juices. One must offer the customer something else.

Let us see a series of guidelines for opening a juice bar.

How to open a juice bar

We take these recommendations into account for opening a Juice Bar:

• Find premises. A Juice Bar doesn’t need much space, if we only plan to offer juices, it will be sufficient with a bar behind which we can have the machinery we need, a few tables and a terrace in summer. We should not forget that part of our business, in fact an important part, must be the take away service.
  As in any business that is open to the public, the location is important. A fresh juice contains a lot of fruit, so the end price is high. A location close to offices, high passage areas and shopping areas will greatly facilitate the viability of the business.
• Analyze your competitors. Following on from the previous point, we should check out how much competition there is in the area in which we plan to locate our business. We should evaluate whether there is space for us. Although it is also good to study the competition, paying both attention to those who are successful and those who are not. Then we must try to discern the reasons for both results.
• The climate. At a location where there are very hard winters, we must analyse the viability of the business. Will we obtain enough income during the good weather to tide us over when winter sets in? Will we be creative in attracting customers on the coldest days? One option that will be most useful is to focus on our juices not only being a refreshing drink but that it also has many nutrients for us and how these are necessary at any time of the year.
• Ask for cost quotes and clarify the investment we need to make. We should calculate the time it takes to recover it and whether the business is economically feasible.

• Be original. We should be original and offer something different, in the decoration, the juices, in special deals… It is recommended to complement our offer of juices with other fresh and healthy products such as fresh salads, smoothies, bowls for breakfast and afternoon teas, vegetable and healthy sandwiches. This will allow us to increase our sales and attract new customers.

• The paperwork that accompanies starting up a business of this type is considerable. We should have professional advice to be sure of doing things properly. There are local regulations that we must know and comply with. Especially in the event that we have an organic production line.

• Machinery is the key. We must have that which gives us the best results. Combination of blender for smoothies, a commercial fruit and vegetable juice extractor, an industrial juicer for orange or other citrus fruit juices and a commercial cold press juicer, will allow us to prepare all kinds of juices including vegetable milks. We shall scope the size of the equipment according to our needs and depending on the evolution of the business, we shall decide whether to buy larger capacity machines.

If we implement all these pieces of advice, we will surely attain success in our natural juice bar. We shall delve further into some of these points in future posts.