Mauricio Lopez

Carmel, CA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal

Café El Cuá

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Location: Huntington Beach
Industry: Food Service/Restaurant
Year Founded: 2018
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type: Limited Liability Company
Description: Café El Cuá, LLC is requesting $1.5M ($50,000 minimum) for 20% Membership Interest in the LLC. Café El Cuá, LLC is a coffee distributor business that offers wholesale and retail premium Nicaraguan coffee (raw or roasted). Café El Cuá will also extend its product line by selling raw quality cacao beans, which is also grown in Nicaragua. The start-up business is located in the US and Nicaragua. The US location will be in Huntington Beach, California – near the seaport of Long Beach, California. The Nicaragua location will be in Managua, Nicaragua, which is also near the port and where the coffee is acquired. The coffee is grown above the mountainous regions of Matagalpa, Jinotega, and El Cuá in Nicaragua. The Company will purchase raw coffee from local Nicaraguan coffee farmers in order to ship the raw coffee to roasters throughout the US and internationally, and to roast and bag coffee for large volume customers and/or individual consumers. Nicaraguan coffee is a hot ticket item due to its flavorful, citrusy, and chocolaty taste. The Owner also has an operations and business license in Nicaragua which allows to cut the middleman and generate more income quickly for the company. Café El Cuá offers premium Nicaraguan coffee at an affordable price. Café El Cuá is licensed to conduct other type of business other than coffee, but for right now will concentrate on coffee; however the company is allowed to export other products, including, goods, services, supplies, raw materials, processed and semi-manufactured equipment, craft, industrial, which may be imported, exported and re-exported. In addition, Café El Cuá can conduct purchase sales, lease, sub-leasing, contracting, subcontracting, and rendering services of all kinds, and may also dedicate itself to representing firms, commercial houses, brands and wholesale and retail sale of services and goods that they offer and provide, and to intermediate class of mercantile activities. The Company founder has identified a number of critical approaches to strategic development and marketing start-up efforts, assessed alternatives, and developed a series of executable, and cohesive but independent, categories of action to aid the business in its core, overarching goals. Many of these strategies will require an investment of time and human resources over several months to achieve their intended outcome. Projections are provided to create a framework for developing actual implementation, based on the business and marketing plan, and ultimately assessing the potential impact to the revenue streams in the plan. The core strategies and specific tactical approaches address the major requirements of a comprehensive strategic development and start-up initiative to establish and grow the business. This business plan encompasses both the spirit of the Company, e.g. value proposition, branding, and content design, as well as the functionalities of the Company, e.g. business plan to map out concepts, plan to map out specific strategies and tactics for development and the marketing strategies. Contact us for a copy of the business plan and private placement memorandum.