Coffee Roaster Subscription
Turn a small specialty roastery into a subscription business shipping fresh beans across the US, against grocery brands, other craft roasters and the big multi-roaster marketplace.
You roast in a 15-kilo drum in a rented unit and ship within two days of roasting. Home baristas notice; most coffee drinkers buy a bag at the supermarket and never think about it. The decisions are a small manufacturer's with a subscription on top: what to charge per bag when green coffee prices swing, whether to sell gift subscriptions that churn or office accounts that need service, how much roasting capacity to buy ahead of demand, and how much to spend on brand versus on the coffee itself. It teaches the economics of a physical subscription: real cost of goods and shipping, capacity bought before customers arrive, and loyalty earned one bag at a time.
$5.00 a seat · 4 simulated years, decided quarterly · by SparkTower.