Pistachios Café Consultancy · AI Café Design Studio
Following
your dream?
You've got the dream. Perhaps you've even found the place. From layout and equipment to your menu, your costs and even a business plan — let more than four decades of real café experience help you work out what comes next.
New to the café world? Download our free Coffee Shop Owner's Handbook →
Pistachios in the Park
The Ultimate Coffee Shop Owner's Handbook
Strategies for Success in the Café Industry
Aysin Djemil
Free download · Our gift to you
The Ultimate Coffee Shop Owner's Handbook
Written by our founder Aysin Djemil, drawing on four decades in the café trade, this is the honest, practical guide we wish we'd had when we started — from your first business plan to opening day and beyond. And it's completely free.
- ✓Plan your business, choose the right location & get your licences in order
- ✓Find your niche — eco-friendly, vegan, locally-sourced or community-led
- ✓Design, equip & market your café the right way from day one
- ✓Build a loyal customer base and keep your café profitable long-term
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Since 1983
More than four decades of real café experience — now powered by AI.
We don't just design cafés. We know how cafés actually work. We've designed, fitted out, opened and operated cafés for real — through queues, coffee production, refrigeration, staff movement, washing-up, wastage, margins and seasonality.
The technology simply makes that experience more accessible to you.
Then the questions start
So many questions.
That's where Pistachios can help.
The Pistachios journey
Dream → Open → Operate
Dream
Design
Cost
Plan
Finance
Review
Open
Operate
See it before you spend a penny
Simple, honest steps.
Step 1 · See it
View our complete sample café
Step 2 · Try it
Free personalised taster for your premises
Step 3 · Design it
Complete AI Café Plan for your premises
Step 4 · Plan the business
AI Business Plan & 5-Year Forecast
Step 5 · Run it
Cafe Ops — your day-to-day & compliance system
Need something more bespoke?
Every café project is different. If your requirements go beyond our Café Design or Business Plan services, you're welcome to contact Pistachios to discuss your project.
Contact UsWhere are you starting from?
Three ways we can help.
Want to open a café?
See a full sample café, try your own premises free, then get a complete AI Café Plan, an optional business plan, and an expert review.
Start Your Café Journey →Just need a business plan?
Already have your own design, plans or equipment quotes? Create a bespoke business plan & 5-year forecast — no need to buy the café design.
See a Sample Business Plan →Just need help with compliance?
Already trading? Go straight to Cafe Ops for temperature records, food-safety logs, allergens, cleaning schedules, opening/closing checks and staff documents. No design or consultancy purchase required.
£10/month · Full access · Cancel anytime
Start Using Cafe Ops →The Pistachios ecosystem
AI Design Studio
Plan it.
AI Business Plan
Plan how to finance it.
Café Consultancy
Help make it happen.
Cafe Ops
Help run it.