Coffee.
Twenty-five
miles.

Neighborhood café

Immediate sale of a prepared drink; food and retail bags can change the basket.

• Scheduled labor coverage
• Purchased roasted beans and milk
• Packaging, waste and payment fees
• Occupancy and equipment

Constraint: Peak-hour queue and service capacity, plus enough traffic outside the peak to cover the schedule.

Lesson: Measure contribution per order and contribution per scheduled labor hour together. A busy queue does not prove a profitable full day.

Roastery with direct retail

Transform purchased green coffee into branded roasted beans sold directly.

• Green coffee and roasting yield
• Batch labor and energy
• Packaging and fulfillment
• Quality control, equipment and working capital

Constraint: Batch utilization and freshness window.

Lesson: Calculate yield before margin. A lower green-bean quote does not imply the same reduction in cost per sellable roasted pound.

Roastery wholesale channel

Repeat bulk orders from cafés, offices or hospitality accounts.

• Green beans and yield
• Roast and bulk packaging
• Delivery routes and service support
• Payment timing and customer concentration

Constraint: Reliable production and delivery plus receivables.

Lesson: Compare contribution after delivery and service with cash conversion. Larger volume can require more cash before payment arrives.

Direct coffee subscription

Recurring shipments with a chosen cadence and published terms.

• Roasted coffee and packaging
• Postage and fulfillment
• Payment fees
• Customer acquisition, cancellations and skipped cycles

Constraint: Retention and fulfillment reliability.

Lesson: Separate repeat contribution from acquisition payback. Count actual fulfilled cycles, including skips and refunds, before estimating lifetime value.

U.S. retail coffee prices

U.S. city average
August 2025 to August 2026 · observed October 3, 2026

The national coffee CPI-U category increased 6.1% over twelve months. Its August month-to-month change was −0.9% before seasonal adjustment.

It is not a café menu-price index, wholesale bean quote, dollar price per pound, local demand measure or shop margin.

Los Angeles food service price backdrop

Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim; Los Angeles and Orange counties
August 2025 to August 2026 · observed October 3, 2026

The area's food-away-from-home CPI-U increased 2.4% over twelve months and was unchanged from July to August.

The metro index is broader than coffee, is not seasonally adjusted, and has a smaller sample than the national CPI. It does not measure an El Segundo café or compare price levels between cities.

California general wage floor

California
Effective January 1, 2026 · observed October 3, 2026

California's general minimum wage is $16.90 per hour for employers outside a higher industry or local wage requirement.

Some localities and industries have higher requirements. Do not apply this general floor to every café or chain; verify the workplace and applicable rules. The calculator’s $19,000 fixed budget is an invented teaching assumption, not a statutory wage or reported shop payroll.

El Segundo resident context

El Segundo city, California
July 1, 2025 estimate (V2025); income period 2020–2024 · observed October 3, 2026

Census estimates 16,379 city residents on July 1, 2025. The 2020–2024 median household income is $150,737 in 2024 dollars.

City residents are not the population of the 25-mile atlas. Household income is not individual purchasing power; neither figure counts café customers, commuters, airport visitors or daytime workers. Five-year income estimates are historical averages.

Global supply outlook

World
USDA July 2026 forecast for 2026/27 · observed October 3, 2026

USDA forecasts 2026/27 world coffee production at 189.7 million bags and consumption at 179.7 million bags; each bag is 60 kilograms.

Forecasts can change. Marketing-year calendars vary by country. Production minus consumption is not a shop profit, delivered inventory forecast or complete stocks/trade accounting. Do not splice these figures with ICO coffee-year balances without explaining their different periods and methods.

Global green-coffee price signal

ICO international composite
August 2026 monthly average · observed October 3, 2026

ICO's composite green-coffee indicator averaged 287.29 US cents per pound in August, compared with 287.26 in July.

The composite is not the invoice price of a specialty lot or roasted bag. Differentials, quality, contracts, currency, freight, yield loss and timing affect a roaster's actual cost.

Location and radius

Center: 350 Main St, El Segundo, CA 90245; 33.91992025096, -118.415864992665. Census address interpolation; not roof-level precision. Shop points come from Census address matching or documented merchant directions and retain that approximation. Distances and initial bearings use the WGS84 ellipsoid; inclusion uses unrounded distance ≤ 25 miles.

A geometric radius is not a drive time or trade area. The schematic has no street network, routing, parcel precision, or municipal boundaries.

Product and access evidence

Merchant-owned pages support addresses and named offerings. A website bean catalog describes a brand’s online assortment; it does not prove the bag is stocked at the mapped café. No live inventory, shop sales, revenue, footfall, quality ranking, or accessibility certification is inferred.

Public health and local licensing are separate records. This edition has not matched food-facility permits or inspection records to every address.