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@Dammit
Depends what you want to achieve really.
What are you doing this for- to have somewhere for your friends to work on their bikes, or as a self sustaining business that might pay the bills?
LMNH works because they are extremely good, and professional about what they are doing.
They've not set up in a squatted building, they've clearly made a series of very astute commercial decisions and they have a cracking little business, which if they have a mind to do so would scale quite nicely.
As imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery I would suggest something remarkably similar to LMNH in terms of the cafe aspect, but with a large workshop that has access for members to tools and so forth, stands etc, and crucially the advice of trained, qualified mechanics who can safety check a build before it goes out the door, or do the work for you whilst showing you what to do.