 Hey guys, today we're going to be talking about all the must-have equipments for your ice cream shop so then you can save tens of thousands of dollars on the mistakes that we have made. Previously I talked about how you open up your ice cream shop. Today we're going to dive right into all the technicals and all the equipments. So when we first started our ice cream shop we didn't know any better so we went to Google to find out what are some of the must-have equipments for our soft serve ice cream shop and of course they pointed us to Taylor which is one of the biggest manufacturers for soft serve ice cream. We donwolds used them, a lot of popper chains used them and during this process they sold us on a machine that they thought was sufficient for us and that machine cost us $20,000. We bought two of them because we thought it was sufficient. Within three months of time we had to buy a new machine because it wasn't producing the turnover that we needed to produce and in turn with them paying $40,000 for a brand new machine and retire one of our machine that was cost us $20,000 and in turn it just cost us a lot of headaches and troubles because it wasn't really what we needed at that time. So that's the reason why I'm shooting this video for you so then that way you can avoid these mistakes. You can avoid and save yourselves tens of thousands of dollars and after getting the machine we also had to pay additional to take apart this counter because our machine wouldn't fit into this counter and that cost us even more money. So at the end of the day that's the reason why we're shooting this video so to help you save tens of thousands of dollars mistakes that we have learned along the way and lessons that I'm going to be sharing with you right now. Lesson number one is that there are a lot of great secondhand equipment out there. If you want to start lean, if you want to try and improve your concept buying secondhand equipment is something that I personally would recommend. Some people don't like it because there's no warranty but if you go to your local secondhand shops a lot of them actually provide you with at least one to two years of warranty for your secondhand equipment. Do not go on Craigslist because at the end of the day you don't know what's going on so I would highly recommend you guys go into your local secondhand equipment shops. They have amazing great stuff and they do provide warranties. A second resource is that you can go on auction sites. A lot of companies actually go out of business and their equipment is so brand spanking new and you can definitely find some really good gems there. So definitely if you have an opportunity buy secondhand equipment until you're proven in concept, until you're proven the fact that your ice cream shop can scale, can have multiple locations. This would save you tons of money to begin with. Second lesson that we have learnt is to do your research. That's the reason why you're here. That's the reason why you're watching this video because you want to learn and I want to congratulate you on this because for us we didn't do enough research. That's the reason why we ended up cheaping out and buying equipment that didn't fit our needs right away. So for you find out what is your bottom line. Find out what is your moneymaker and do not cheap out on your moneymaker. The rest of the items, let's say for example coolers, let's say for example ice machine, those things you can actually cheap out on. But your moneymaker, the thing that is going to produce your real product, things that can prevent you to have bottlenecks within your business, that is something that you should not cheap out on. Do your research and you can save tens of thousands of dollars moving forward. Enough of the rants, enough of the stories. Right now we're going to dive right into all the equipment that you need. Right there. That's basically the machine that we're talking about that is the gravity machine. And that's going to cost you around 20,000 dollars. This machine is going to cost you 40,000 dollars and it's going to produce much higher output and these are the must have if you're looking into building a soft-serve ice cream machine. Business. I don't know like Patrick Cooler. This is something that is necessary because you're going to keep all your batches of goods, all your ingredients, basically everything you're going to be able to use on a daily basis during operation. This is going to cost you around 3,000 dollars. It's a must have for your ice cream shop. The third equipment that you need is the third type of equipment that you need is an upright cooler which is going to be around 3,000 dollars. This is we're going to be putting all your batch equipment, all your milk, all your batches and everything like that. So those were the operational pure basic equipment that you need for your ice cream shop. Right now I'm going to show you the second batch of equipment that you may potentially need because at the end of the day selling ice cream itself is only going to get you so much in terms of revenue. The average ticket cost is going to be too low for you to have enough margins to sustain your business. So if you're looking into making more money definitely include more variety of items in your food menu. So now we're going to dive right in. For you to be able to serve drinks it's going to definitely increase your average ticket cost and ticket item hence more margins and more profits for you. Right now we have blenders which is around a thousand dollars. Ice maker which is essential for you to make any drinks and serve any drinks. This is around 2,000 dollars. Hot water machine, another 500 bucks and taiyaki machine. So at the end of the day if you would want to offer food, taiyaki, waffle machine, whatever the case may be, quick items that your customers can grab and go is essential for you to be able to have a higher average ticket cost hence more revenue. This is around 2,000 dollars right here. So these are the second batch of must-have equipment for your ice cream shop. The third batch of equipment that you need for your ice cream shop I personally would really recommend for a to-go display counter cooler because the reason why is because people can grab these and they can grab it to go. They can grab your items to go. And why would they want to do that? Once again this will increase your average ticket cost and it will also increase your revenue. So this is something that I definitely must recommend. It's not a must-have but I would highly recommend that because in the long trajectory of your business this would make back your money in no time. This thing costs us 3,000 dollars and it has been an amazing investment and of course you would want to have your POS system so then that way you can people can create a credit card and everything and also camera system. The reason why we do want to have a camera system is for lost fat prevention. At the end of the day if you're running your business you're not always going to be there. You would want to have your team there to help you monitor your business and this is a really good way to keep track of them to make sure that they are doing things that they need to do. It is crucial for you to find all the equipments you need for your shop right from the get-go because you'll save you so much time, energy and money when it comes to dealing with city permits. The electricals for us we had to spend another 5,000 dollars when we had this new machine because the outlet was not the same and on top of that it just allows you to save so much in budgeting and that you won't be over budget. So at the end of the day I really hope this has helped you. I really hope that this has given you some insight into some of the equipments that you need for your shop. I've attached the checklist in the link below so then that way you can go over it for our ice cream shop and that way it will help you out. If you like this video give it a thumbs up. If you want to have any questions or if you want us to go over anything else in the future comment below. Otherwise subscribe along the journey. I'll see you guys in the next video.