How to Open a Mobile Beer Delivery Bar
Office workers may feel trapped in office high rises and cubicles. Work-from-home folks struggle with solitude. Welcome to work in the 21st century. You've an escape plan---a scheme that's so dynamic, you're prepared to navigate friends' collective envy when you disclose your mobile, beer delivery bar idea. Party time? Not so fast. You'll find yourself working too hard to sample the wares as regularly as you'd like, but play your cards right and you'll make enough cash to drink premium lagers exclusively.
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Things You'll Need
- Funding
- Business plan
- Vehicle
- Kegs
- Hardware
- Insurance
- Licenses and permits
Instructions
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Investigate mobile beer delivery bars to be certain the area isn't already saturated with vendors with long track records and contracts that cover festivals, special events, carnivals, fairs and sporting events in your region. Assess the viability of this type of business if you live in a northern climate where you may not be able to make a living for months at a time.
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Find ways to make your business idea unique. Read about the Portland entrepreneur who outfitted a cargo bike with kegs below a wood bar in addition to pizza shelves (see Resources) and the Denver beer dude who took pages from Budweiser Clydesdale commercials and Prohibition-era delivery systems by opening a mobile, beer delivery bar from the back of a beer wagon (see Resources).
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Do your business homework. Compile a business plan that estimates the amount money you'll require to fund your mobile beer delivery bar, the cost of purchasing and retrofitting a vehicle, licenses and permits required by liquor regulators (see Resources) and the insurance you'll be required to carry for everything from driving the bar from place to place to handling liability issues that may arise.
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Apply for a loan from a bank, venture capital firm or mortgage company if you don't have the funds to underwrite your mobile beer delivery start-up business. Qualify for the loan by presenting documents outlining your personal or business financial state, an accounting of how you'll spend loan funds, projections for repayment and the marketing and promotional effort you plan to make to build your mobile bar's business.
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Purchase a delivery truck. Install top-of-the-line keg beer flash coolers designed to dispense up to three lagers at the same time (see Resources) in addition to couplings, regulators and gas lines if hardware isn't bundled with the flash coolers. Have cabinets installed that are designed to transport glasses and mugs safely from site to site if they're not already in place. Buy a generator for event sites with no power hookups.
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Roll out a dynamic marketing campaign to introduce your new business. Make and circulate promotional fliers, launch a website and set up a system to call on festival and event planners to generate bookings. Remember your mission and work hard to get your beer delivery bar up and running so you never again have to do your job from a corner cubicle.
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References
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- Photo Credit beer image by Einar Bog from Fotolia.com
