YOUR CAFÉ SHOULD MAKE YOU MONEY.
NOT TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE.

Build a more profitable café with better systems, a stronger team and less reliance on you.

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Blueprint is the 10 week coaching program built by the team behind Black Market Coffee for café owners ready to turn a busy café into a better business.

30 YEARS HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCE
7 VENUES BUILT & OPERATED
45+ PEOPLE LED
$1M+ BUSINESS EXITS

YOUR CAFÉ CAN BE BUSY AND STILL NOT BE WORKING.

Your till is ringing. The team is busy. Customers are coming through the door. But is enough of that money actually making it to the bottom line?

Being busy doesn't mean you're profitable. More sales won't save bad margins, poor costing or money leaking through the operation. Your wage problem might actually be a systems problem. Poor training, messy workflow and unclear roles make every task take longer — and labour gets blamed. Before cutting labour, look at how the café actually runs. Workflow. Role clarity. Prep. Peak-hour deployment. Fix the operation before you cut the people.

Your team shouldn't need you to make every decision. If they do, you don't have a staffing problem. You have a systems and leadership problem.

MORE SALES WON'T FIX A BUSINESS THAT LEAKS MONEY, TIME AND ENERGY.

Blueprint helps you find the leaks — and fix the business underneath them.

Blueprint business diagram
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WHAT WOULD CHANGE IF YOUR CAFE RAN BETTER WITHOUT YOU?

Over 10 weeks, we work through the four areas that determine how well your café actually performs.

01

KNOW YOUR NUMBERS.

Know where your money is going, what's making you profit and what needs your attention.

Sales · Wages · COGS · Margins · Profit

02

FIX THE OPERATION.

Remove inefficiencies and build repeatable systems around the way your café actually runs.

Workflow · Rostering · Costing · POS · Systems

03

BUILD THE TEAM.

Create clear roles, better training and stronger managers so you aren't the answer to every question.

People · Training · Accountability · Management

04

GET YOUR TIME BACK.

Bring it all together into a café that can perform consistently without you holding every piece together.

Control → Confidence → Freedom

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WHAT'S INCLUDED?

WE WORK ON YOUR ACTUAL CAFÉ.

Blueprint combines practical training with coaching, tools and implementation so you can apply what you're learning directly to your business.

10-WEEK BLUEPRINT

The complete framework for improving the numbers, people, systems and performance of your café.

LIVE COACHING

Bring your numbers, questions and actual business problems. We'll help you work through them.

TOOLS WE ACTUALLY USE

Calculators, templates, SOPs, spreadsheets and frameworks built from running our own venues.

CAFÉ OWNER COMMUNITY

Work alongside other owners who understand exactly what you're dealing with.

NO THEORY FOR THEORY'S SAKE.

Learn it. Apply it. See what changes.

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BUILT IN CAFÉS.
NOT CLASSROOMS.

We've spent 30 years building, operating and exiting hospitality businesses.
We've made the bad hires.
We've blown wages.
We've got pricing wrong.
We've built systems that didn't work.
And we've spent years figuring out better ways to do it.
Blueprint is the program we wish we'd had when we started.
Angus + Jess
Black Market Coffee
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BEFORE YOU APPLY, BLUEPRINT ISN'T
FOR EVERY CAFE OWNER

It's for owners who know their business can perform better — and are prepared to do something about it.

THIS IS PROBABLY YOU IF...

  • You're busy, but the profit doesn't reflect it.
  • Your wages or COGS keep getting away from you.
  • Your team still relies on you too much.
  • You're making too many decisions from gut feel.
  • You want to grow, but don't want more chaos.
  • You're tired of being the system that holds the café together.

IMAGINE 12 MONTHS FROM NOW.

  • You know your numbers.
  • You know where your profit comes from.
  • Your roster makes sense.
  • Your menu is properly costed.
  • Your team knows what's expected.
  • Your managers actually manage.
  • Problems don't automatically become your problems.
  • And you can leave the café knowing the business will keep moving without you.

THAT'S THE BUSINESS WE WANT TO HELP YOU BUILD.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Why do I need to apply?

Because Blueprint isn't designed for everyone. We want to understand your business and make sure we can genuinely help before inviting you to join.

What happens after I apply?

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Is Blueprint free?

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YOUR NEXT MOVE IS SIMPLE.

Tell us about your café, what's working, what isn't and where you want the business to go.
We'll review your application and, if we believe Blueprint can help, invite you to a short call to talk through your business and the program.
Takes around 2 minutes
No payments required
No obligation to join
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YOU'VE ALREADY BUILT THE CAFÉ.
NOW BUILD THE BUSINESS BEHIND IT.

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30 YEARS · 7 VENUES · 45 PEOPLE · $1M+ EXITS