Coffee Shop Commercial Insurance: What Every Coffee Shop Business Needs

What Every Coffee Shop Business Needs: Commercial Insurance

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Commercial Insurance for Your Coffee Shop Protects Your Investments

Your coffee shop needs a great location, great coffee, fantastic service, and…commercial insurance.

Insurance is not the most exciting thing about opening a coffee business, but it's probably among the most important. Your coffee shop business insurance is a fundamental aspect of maintaining a healthy and sound coffee business.

Starting and opening a coffee shop requires a lot of expertise.

For example, you need to be familiar with:

• Serving coffee
• Coffee equipment
• Laws and regulations
• Property leases
• Marketing
• Hiring

But what about commercial insurance?

Many coffee shop business owners often forget about this utterly important aspect of their business. The reality is that most coffee shop owners need to take steps to secure and protect their coffee shop business – and have adequate insurance policies.

Insurance may usually be required from several sources, including cities, states, banks, property managers, investors, etc. But it is vital to protect your investment.

Getting insurance for your coffee business is an absolute necessity and shouldn’t be overlooked. While we here at Coffee Shop Startups are not insurance brokers, there are a few things that we would like to mention – as a courteous, educational discussion. 

When it comes to your coffee business, adequate business insurance is a must-have. It doesn't matter which city, state, or country you wish to open your coffee shop in. Having business insurance is vital, and it's often required before you do any business. 

“There is nothing sexy about insurance, but we're going to bring this subject up anyway – because it's important!”

There are several local and regional insurance agents in your area that can help you address many specifics. We want to cover the basics of why you need insurance and possibly what kind of insurance.

All we want to do here is to get your mind primed and ready to tackle many of the multiple issues that you will need to be familiar with when you open your coffee business.

To be sure, we strongly encourage you to look into separating your business by establishing a legal structure. This may include setting up your coffee business as a partnership, a corporation, or a Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Establishing a coffee shop LLC in your state will help you establish your bank account and other vital business legal documents that you need to have. Additionally, operating under an LLC, for example, may prevent you from being personally responsible and risking your personal assets during the ordinary course of business dealings.

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Types of Insurance Elements To Consider For Your Coffee Shop

Note: Coffee Shop Startups does not offer legal advice. Information is for educational purposes only. 

General Liability Insurance for Your Coffee Business

General liability insurance is a must-have policy for any business, especially the coffee business, which engages patrons in frequent contact. Basically, general liability insurance protects you when/if you, your baristas, your coffee, or any other products might cause harm to other people.

You will certainly want to ask your insurance agent about the specifics of this coverage, but having a blanket liability coverage for your entire business will be worth the money. This is especially true if you have any employees – any of their actions (intentional or not) that may harm your customers – who can turn around and look to you for compensation or even a lawsuit.

Business Property Insurance (Interior and Exterior Coverage)

Protecting your physical business property is critical. We’ve seen several occasions where business owners had their property damaged and/or stolen – only to be so grateful that their insurance covers it. You will need to work out the details with your insurance agent. Still, it should include any outdoor or exterior property, such as signage (signs), railings, umbrellas, decks, patios, lighting, etc.

To learn how to protect your coffee shop, please read our post How to Protect Your Coffee Shop Business.

Business Income Coverage

Depending on your situation and your coffee shop location, you may consider getting business income coverage. Business income coverage will help you maintain your ability to pay for necessary fixed and variable coffee shop business expenses. Remember to get prudent, detailed coverage information from your agent.  By doing so, you can assess whether or not you actually need this coverage.

Coffee Equipment (Breakdown) Coverage

As you will soon find out (if you haven’t already done the research), coffee equipment can/will be expensive. Having your equipment covered by insurance (especially while you may still be financing your equipment) is essential. You may be thinking that you don’t have to get insurance because your equipment is brand new and probably won't break down. However, your employees can often unintentionally break your equipment. Accidents happen. Get the full skinny on the matter with your insurance agent.

Coffee Commercial Auto Coverage

If you have a mobile coffee business, you will most likely need to decide on a commercial auto policy. This will protect your coffee truck, coffee van, or coffee trailer.

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