The Cat Cafe

We Started The First Cat Cafe In Southern California ($40K/Month)

September 17th, 2024
Tony Wang
Founder, The Cat Cafe
$40K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
The Cat Cafe
from San Diego, CA, USA
started January 2015
$40,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
2
Employees
market size
$208B
starting costs
$18.9K
gross margin
43%
time to build
270 days
growth channels
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time investment
Full time
pros & cons
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

My name is Tony Wang, and I’m the general manager of The Cat Cafe in downtown San Diego. We are the first cat cafe to open in Southern California and we are the fourth oldest continuously operating cat cafe in the United States.

Our business opened in January 2015 and we were stunned at the amount of business coming in. While that initial pop of people wanting to enjoy handcrafted drinks with friendly adoptable cats was nice, after it faded, we had to build our business out the hard way.

It took years to grow the business to where it is now, but we’re now seeing revenue of up to $50K a month. That’s a long way from the days when we first opened when we’d see less than a third of that.

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How did you come up with your business idea?

We first learned about cat cafes when we saw an article about Le Cafe de Chats in...

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