Replicating a Coffee Shop

[alpha117]

So, I was thinking and thought..'let try a replicate Costa Coffee' as a business. I then googled 'Costa Cofefe Product range'. Now have a range of products....Unless I've totally missed something... how would you go about setting up the Costa Coffee type Business?

My Thoughts

1. Coffee shop........not there
Products to sell: Cofee (Cup of), Cookies, and other various items, that could be sold in a Coffee shop

https://costaprices.co.uk/

just an idea

Thanks

[Stylesjl]

Did you mean that you wanted to add new coffee products? To do this you will need to mod this into the game.

There is a guide on how to do this:
https://www.capitalismlab.com/mod/how-to-make-a-mod/

Basically you could add additional Coffee based products or even add a new firm if you want.

For adding new products you would need to change Products.dbf and Manufacturing.DBF to add an entry for each coffee product:
https://www.capitalismlab.com/mod/advan ... -products/
https://www.capitalismlab.com/mod/advan ... facturing/

If you have any questions I would suggest asking for more details in the modding forum.

[alpha117]

Thanks, but MODDing is beyond me

That sorts that one

Many thanks

[anjali]

So, I was thinking and thought..'let try a replicate Costa Coffee' as a business. I then googled 'Costa Cofefe Product range'. Now have a range of products....Unless I've totally missed something... how would you go about setting up the Costa Coffee type Business?

My Thoughts

1. Coffee shop........not there
Products to sell: Cofee (Cup of), Cookies, and other various items, that could be sold in a Coffee shop

https://costaprices.co.uk/

just an idea

Thanks

you can only add those with modding

you could make it a service industry product range so no factories but its quite some work to set it up n tweak it.
if modding isnt for you, you could go for realworld mod or my own (which is based on an older realworld just different and working for the beta test game)
depends which of the above mods you use, would give ya bars ,fast food, pizzerias shops etc, Product range of 650-800 products (about 150 in base game), and up to ZERO Research so nothing to produce at start of the game, depends on which mod you use

[alpha117]

Thought! Could the following Products bee added by default to the coffee Shop: Snacks, Beverages and Cakes?

[Stylesjl]

Thought! Could the following Products bee added by default to the coffee Shop: Snacks, Beverages and Cakes?

You can do with a mod, yes. In fact it is easier than making a new product as you only need to add a few lines to Service_Firm_Products with the categories you want and they will be available in game:

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[alpha117]

OK, I've done this. Is this correct?




It works.....easier than I thought

[anjali]

if you got product classes like cake and coffee in your mod then yes its correct as long as all this named Product classes / Buildings are properly listed in
Retail_Store_Products / Product_Classes / Product_Mega_Classes.dbf / Buildings.dbf / Product
as you ll produce them inside the service firms so might be good to have those erased off the Retail_Store_Products as you dont need factories for those no more

[alpha117]

OK, see what you mean. Can you still produce the items in a factory and then sell them in the coffee shop?

Currently the' coffee shop can only sell 3 products

[Stylesjl]

OK, see what you mean. Can you still produce the items in a factory and then sell them in the coffee shop?

Currently the' coffee shop can only sell 3 products

There is a limit of only 3 items allowed to be sold in a service firm. That is hard coded and can't be changed by a mod.

You also can't produce service items in a factory, unless Service Firms are switched off. Even then the items will just be sold in a normal store so it won't really be useful in this case.