Café owner sparks debate after revealing how much he makes in a year

People are wondering whether they're in the wrong job after hearing how much a cafe owner in Australia is making in a year.

Granted, he owns a total of four cafes and spent a long time as a chef before managing to own his own places, but it's still an impressive haul.

This all came about after he appeared in a TikTok posted by recruitment app Getahead as he was asked what he did for a living and how much he earned.

He said: "I’m a cafe owner/operator and I earn around the AUS$300,000 (£155,000) mark.

"I used to be a chef so I have been cooking for 20 years. But I own four cafes now, they’re called Commitment Issues."

As if that didn't sound like a sweet enough gig, he then said that work didn't really feel like it and he'd be happy doing it all days of the week.

"I don't really feel like I work, I can work every day of the week, wouldn't bother me.

"Get up in the morning, it's not work to me any more."

Lucky so-and-so.

Anyhow, his comments have caused quite a split over people who think they're in the wrong line of work and folks who reckon he ought to be making even more.

One commenter claimed that coffee shops made 'about 20 cents' profit from each drink, which would mean he sold an insane amount of drinks.

Of course he has four coffee shops and probably sells other stuff with a much better profit margin, and being a chef it's possible that his real money-spinner is his food.

Others questioned where they were getting that idea from, with a former cafe worker being pretty confused at the idea of such a meagre margin of profit.

Someone else took the entire other end of the discussion and said that for four shops the amount he was earning in a year 'isn't that profitable'.

Another Aussie crunching the numbers claimed the 'industry benchmark for cafe net profit is 50k', and so if the bloke had four cafes that were doing decently well it wouldn't be straining belief that he might be earning what he claimed.

Whether it is a good haul or not for what he has, it's a tidy amount of money to take home each year and he seems to be really enjoying it.

Does anyone else feel like trying to open up a cafe?

Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@getahead.app

Topics: Australia, Money, TikTok

Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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