Campus Convenience Store Planning Manual

Product Description

During the past decade, various forms of convenience stores, known as campus convenience stores--or c-stores--have come into their own. There are now an estimated 1,200 campus c-stores with predictions of more than 5,000 stores on campus by the turn of the century. If you are planning to open or improve an existing c-store, why not save yourself time, energy, and cost. Let two of America's most respected authorities bring you up-to-date on one of higher education's most exciting student service concepts and on of its least understood: Campus Convenience Stores. Here, at last, is the first complete guide to this important new development. It brings you the latest and most successful profit planning, merchandising, inventory control, physical planning, and equipment to make c-stores work. It explains the kind of services, sidelines (non-food items), hours of operation, and management required to succesful and profitably operate the unique kiosk, mini, maxi, and super c-stores described. In the Campus Convenience Store Planning Manual, you'll have all the information you need at your fingertips. You'll learn for example: The impact of site c-store location on student safety in urban settings. Characteristics of campus c-stores. Merchandise gross margin analysis, merchandise planning, operating, and cash plans. Top six volume product classifications, gross margin, standard food classifications. Popular fast food classifications and gross margins, refrigerated and frozen food classifications. Investment requirements to build and inventory mini, maxi, and super c-stores. Industry sales volume guidelines. Housekeeping planning check list. Campus c-store planning and design, store architecture of "down and dirty", generic, and up-scale campus stores is fully explained. Equipment selection and options to control cost presented. Franchising, a more cost effective alternative to leasing campus c-stores is described. And much, much more!

About the Author

Ken White, ISP, is a recognized consultant and lecturer in all phases of college and university convenience stores, bookstores, food facilities, and student union planning and merchandising. Mr. White is the author and co-author of numerous articles, Bookstore Planning & Design and Display & Visual Merchandising.