Campus Coffee Cart
Run a coffee cart on a 12,000-student campus against the chain café in the library and the vending machines. Price a latte, staff the morning rush, and survive the summer.
You have a cart, a grinder and a spot outside the science building. Twelve thousand students, two thousand staff and a steady stream of visitors walk past every term — and most of them already have a habit. The decisions are the ones every small food business makes: what to charge for a latte when the library café charges $5.40, how many baristas to schedule for the 8:50 rush, whether to open a second cart by the dorms, and how to get through June to August when campus empties. It teaches unit economics you can see — cost of a cup, labour per hour, the price of a queue — in a market small enough that one good semester changes everything.
$5.00 a seat · 2 simulated years, decided monthly · by SparkTower.