Retail Profiles

World Tea News celebrates success. If you operate a successful tea room or are a tea merchant in business for at least a year, World Tea News is interested in sharing your secret to success.

To qualify, the venture must be profitable with revenue principally from the sale of packaged teas, teaware, herbals, baked goods and beverages. Full service restaurants rarely qualify.

To be featured, send a one paragraph description to editor@worldteanews.com.

In the interest of making these business profiles useful to other shop owners, interviewers will ask about average daily ticket and traffic, equipment and staffing and will include information about benchmarks such as labor expense as a percent of revenue and compare sales of merchandise to consumables.