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@Garbles
Hey,
I'm planning on opening a weekly evening bike repair workshop in a busy cafe/restaurant that my friend runs. I'm a qualified bike mechanic and have worked in a bike shop for 3 years and feel that it could a good time to start running something myself.
The restaurant/café has a large, light spare room in which I would do repairs in. The room is already used by various people for things such as lunch meetings, art classes, philosophy groups etc and a bike workshop would definitely complement the style of the restaurant (I'd be going for something like LMNH and Roll For the Soul in Bristol dare I say).
I would initially start on a weekly basis once a week and increase from there should demand require. I wouldn't have a huge stock and would mainly focus on repairs and servicing at first. There would also be no rent involved as I would pay for this by carrying out maintenance to the building during quite times.
The restaurant is in a very busy central location and has lots of customers from nearby offices etc, some using the courtyard to park their bikes in which makes me think that potentially it could be a good place to this sort of thing. I am reasonably business savvy but wondered if anyone had any experience in this area and might be able to give any advice?
I'd prefer to not give details about the location if I may but let's say it will be in a very busy cycling city and plenty of potential for customers.
Many thanks,
Tom