How They Built A Coffee Brand From A Garage To 120 Cafés: With Richard Corney and Nick Clark from Flight Coffee

How to scale a coffee business is one of the hardest questions in hospitality, and few have done it like Flight Coffee. For café owners, roasters, and anyone in a hospitality business, this is a real look at what it takes to grow a brand from a home garage to national distribution. Richard Corney and Nick Clark co-founded Flight Coffee in a garage in Napier back in 2009, and today they supply around 120 cafés across New Zealand plus a growing retail and ready-to-drink range.The story is anything but smooth. A roaster crammed into the middle of a café because there was nowhere else to put it. Six months building out an old car park on the smell of an oily rag. Outgrowing the space before they'd even finished it. Taking on investment in 2018 so the business could grow without their houses on the line.Along the way they learned what actually drives growth. Nick winning the 2013 NZ Barista Championship. Roastery tours that turned into brand goodwill with international guests. Deliberate decisions to diversify products and channels as a new generation of coffee drinkers arrived.If you make coffee, sell coffee, or dream of building a brand that scales beyond your four walls, this one is for you.You'll hear:→ How Flight went from a garage roaster to supplying 120 cafés  → Why putting a roaster inside your café looks great but doesn't scale  → How competition wins and roastery tours built the brand  → Why they took on investment, and what it freed up  → Diversifying products and channels for the next generation of coffee drinkerKey takeaways:Growth is hard and growth is expensive. Plan the facilities to grow with production.A great story and brand goodwill can do more than any ad spend.Taking on the right investment can grow the business without risking your home.The coffee drinker is changing. Meet them with new products and channels.Ready to build a hospitality business that makes money and runs without you? Book a Profit Finding Session: https://foodiecoaches.co/fc-bac-ytFollow Flight Coffee:  @flightcoffeeFollow Foodie Coaches:  @foodie_coaches  @tim.kummerfeldNew episodes every Wednesday.