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Most states have a Cottage Food Act. This will generally allow you to see your roasted coffee direct to consumers without licensing. What that means is you can roast and sell in your community. What you canʼt do is sell to a retail establishment or online. One CO website puts it this way:

White Label Coffee: This is a more generic, ready-made coffee product that multiple businesses can rebrand as their own. The supplier produces the same blend for different brands, with little to no customization beyond packaging and labeling.

To do this legally, you should be getting permission to rebrand anotherʼs product as your own and this is typically done through the use of a White Label Agreement. A white label product is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if

A Breakdown of Coffee Roasting Profit Margins Roaster-retailers (those who roast their own coffee) benefit from 65% gross margins and 8.79% profit margins. Wholesale roasters operate on 44% gross margins but generate $750,000+ in annual sales due to long-term, high-volume accounts.

You buy it, make it your own and sell or distribute the product under your own brand. ​Essentially, you are buying the product from someone else, namely us, and taking ownership of that product with your own branding. ​Your Private Label coffee will be delivered directly to your door.

A food handlerʼs permit is typically required when dealing with consumable goods, such as coffee or coffee beans. This license demonstrates that you have completed the necessary training and understand safe food handling practices.

Most small coffee shops aim for a profit margin of 10% to 20%. Anything higher might be difficult to achieve, due to the high startup and operating costs involved in running a coffee shop.

Branding: One of the key advantages of choosing to sell private label coffee is the ability to repackage a product and sell it as your own. However, in order to do this youʼll need to think about branding and consider what sort of custom labels youʼll want for your coffee packaging.