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Hello guys, I haven't been on here in a while so I thought I'd come back :D

So, there is a primary school on my road and every school day at 3:30 hundreds of pupils there walk up my road, usually with their parents (pupils are aged from 1-11).
My idea would be to turn my front garden or garage into a mini shop of vending machine area and maybe even a claw machine. I have done the research into purchasing the products I'd need. Of course, this wouldn't just have to be for school days, it could be run on the weekends as well. One of the flaws with this plan is that I'm not really expecting these kids to carry money with them to and from school :/ this is a big downside to my idea although once they see it I believe they could convince their parents to bring money or bring it themselves. The kind of thing I'm going for here is a store that sells snacks and drinks or a vending machine place with the odd arcade game maybe that has vending machines filled with snacks and drinks, I am leaning more towards vending machines as it would mean it'd be able to be running when I'm not at home as I go to my school 30mins away.

Another thing I thought of while writing this is starting a mobile snack and drinks store at my high school so people would place orders before I go to school in the morning and I would get the stock that people have ordered for that day and deliver the products ar school in the morning to my customer and have one of those mobile credit card readers as well. A negative is getting caught running this idea and potentially being punished at school (isolation, detention, exclusion etc.)

Anyway, what do you guys think of these two ideas? Do you think these would be worth it and what suggestions do you have?




Thanks,
James.

Parents would pounce all over you if you try to fleece money from their kids either 1) In the form of a claw machine (lol), or 2) Via poisoning them with junk food.  I'm not saying the kids aren't deserving of you stealing their lunch money from them, but I'm telling you...parents don't like that kind of stuff.

Hey James why you don't try your ideas? I think it is more good than looking for opinions in here, because only you who know about the condition at there. I think you can apply your ideas soon of course with low capital for first time and with you can lost it, there are not business who growing up only one minute.

i think if just a small time business then you won't be needing some permit?. i think you can also add some homemade food or anything that is not bought so that it can be viewed as i said a small time business.

good luck bro it's just my opinion.

I think the way for you to know if it is a good idea or not is try to do it. You will know if your idea is working or not and then you can have the adjustments or variations in your business along the way. It would also be good if you ask the opinion of your neighbors because they are the ones who can see your place and maybe they can even add some idea to yours and if you know someone who already did it before then try to ask him how he did it.

Hello guys, thank you for your input and I will definitely take your suggestions on board during this journey.




Thanks,
James.

Instead o junk food machines maybe you will try to purchase arcade games machine or pinball and put in in front of your garage?
Kids would love that idea and you won't be targeted by their parents as 'that horrible person who sells unhealthy food to our children'.

I really like your idea but there would be an issue of funding as I don't have that much money to play with for this, I have ~£100 to start out and that won't really buy an arcade machine. Thanks for your suggestion.

Thank you.

   You budget is low for any business in my opinion. For anything you plan to open, depending from where you live, you need some documents, you need some licenses for any kind of shop, you need to pay tax for anything you do.
   If you have good spot, where people pass a lot, kids and their parents, think about just to build something and then rent it. You will not have to worry about anything, just rent it and report that and someone else with money will start some business. That is maybe safest money, what ever you build will stay for you, and when one guy get out, you can rent it again. Good Luck.

I know I have a low budget, I'm not planning on building a building - I'm in high school lol.

It means that you just want to be a worker that is governed by the regulations of the company..?? . If that's true, then I think you will not be able to enjoy life properly. for if you merged into companies that have very long working hours then it will ruin your life. Because when this occurs, you will focus on work and not on your family.
Dream wake up as high as possible, you can't do that now. But if indeed you have great willpower surely it will manifest with either

What? Why would I work at a place when I'm the one with the fucking idea.

You don't need to hurry up for doing your business but looking at your environment you can make a polling for that, what the most buying. but dealing with the negative effect you can get maybe better for talking about this to your teacher.

Most important thing would be to gain the trust of these kid's parents - else you'll be labeled a pedophile the first day you open up shop

Ignorance and fear run rampant these days, unfortunately...

don't take the risk if it's about your education,if you're will be punished after being caught,then avoid to do that thing
if you want to go with your first idea,don't just serve crappy unhealthy drinks or anything else,atleast serve a healthy things which could bring their parent's interest so their mummy will be fine to spend some money for the sake of their children

I totally agree with your idea, that if you are serving some thing nutritious food or drinks then i dont think that parents or any other authorities will be having any problem in your setting up a shop near school.

Once again, thanks for your input guys.

This is pretty good idea, just i think their parents would give their kids money for that if you would sell some fruits like apples, not junk food,  or maybe even water in bottles too

A guy getting kids into his garage with candy? Sounds creepy!

I'm not a 40 year old pedo.

Yeh, this is the first one, thanks for your insight.

Well is that considered as kidnapping or marketing strategy at all?



This must be set to be one of your priorities james so that you are going to consider your and their safety at all. But upon reviewing your ideas, you have a good idea.

Well i feel every plan worth a try, you wont get arrested by the police or get beaten by anyone for doing that i guess, so i think you should go for it and see if how it goes with you.
Best of luck.

Thanks

Lol its funny to hear these kind of commentary here. As a business idea we can start bitcoin to initiate in our business and for overseas trade.

I must say your area is a good for a cafeteria/ canteen type of business. As 3:30 kids usually tend to be hungry that time, your target there is groups of friends and parents who pick up their kids from school.

A canteen that serves food differently from what the school serves will make your business be profitable. Try researching what their canteen usually serves and more research on what your options are for the area you have.

for now I think the business can be profitable and comfortable is to make your own business such as trade, yes if we are dealing with the Internet it becomes very easy, because a lot of ways to promote our merchandise, terms critically important to trade is always to innovate merchandise we, our merchandise must be made different from the others though brang the same but has its own characteristics so that people will always be interested in our merchandise.
kalu for virtual business related, I think investing through mining sites, trading was the right choice, especially during this era bitcoin in particular has become a popular thing to do transactions. :)

Franchising is a good business because it is hard investment

Franchising is a good business but you really need to consider  Location. As location is the main factor that can either make or break your business. For example thousands of Mcdonalds closed every year due to the fact of having a bad location. Also are you really considering investing big money when your target market are just kids across the road? Do you think they have the allowance to buy branded fast food? I think not. And I don't think a company will let you carry there name when your building it at your garage.

He's not a guy, he's a high school boy.
I like the idea of you selling snacks in your front yard as the children come back from school. You won't get punished for absconding from class.

if you think its a good idea and you can work with this, so i think you can do this as you want. but before you implemented your idea, better you tell your parents about your idea and ask them to agree with you and you can give statement that this will not disturb your high school.

continue with what you think you can, don't let it stop without applying your idea and good luck for your good idea.

Sounds creepy but it's not as there would be a lot of students at the same time crawling all over the street also OP mentioned about parents picking up their kids , the shop would be the first place to be considered by the police to be involve when related to missing kids or somethimg related to what creepy means to you.

I think you have a good idea.every business is good if it is done for living but you should provide them with best product so they can remain healthy.you can also open book store/stationary if you want ,it can also help them in study.

That would be good idea as long as you have some fruits for sale

In my perspective I believe bitcoin is found over almost each and every business present, but the true fact is that only very few have got popularized. For this reason we can select one such business and popularize to earn better in the future.

LOL,

anyway on topic, I think your idea is good, it is normal for businessman or entrepreneur to take advantage of the  population.  This kind of stuff is normal outside the school premises.  I am near to 3 elementary school and two high school establishment, and I see how kids buy on the street vendors outside their school.  If you can manage to make your business compliant to your area regulation, I dont see any problem you setting with this kind of business.

The crucial thing is the final part of your idea. If it will be like a informal shop/store/company whatever, and the things you're offering will be like candies and games (in my own view, because I'm little old and I have kids), it will gives you lotta trouble because some parents surely gonna do complaints in police station just to f*** up your "game" (that's what they will say about your business). It doesn't depend only of your neighborhood.. kids will come from other places and tell to others, and so on... Well, particularly I won't mess up with kids, it's a double problem. And just to finish... The strangest thing is the place you will transform. I mean, your garage or your garden? WTF? This will be the key to rase your plans. If the problem don't take big proportions, it will gives you just a headache because some 10 year boy will tell his parents without intention and they will think you're doin' wrong stuffs there plus the rights (like play pinball and smoke marijuana). It sound stupid but I saw this here in my town maybe 15 years ago. In that time I was the marijuana guy in the otherside of the street and in the otherside but in the corner a guy with ~18 years opened a place like you are planning. Some f**** up retarded kid who want to screw up the owner because of something personal told his father. Then, until the guy proved that they only played street fighter, he saw the judge couple of times and when I talked to him, he was shitting in his pants because he could have taken one year in jail and it was absolutely clear that the marijuana smell was from our group and we were like 30m from kids playing death metal. AHihaoihOAI it was a very fu*** up situation bro. You should analise it first.

Well this is going to be a good idea if a store is going to sell some fruits and going to receive payments with bitcoin. And I hope op is going to include fruits too and it is going to be a plus also if he is going to offer free delivery for the people who are just nearby to him. That is going to make his business boom.