Details

30 mins, 2000

The film tells how Dave and his brothers set up a cafe-bar. They get planning permission, they design the interior, open up and customers pour in.

But six months on, there’s a crisis. Money’s going out as fast as it’s coming in. And a lack of control means they don’t know where it’s going. The business comes close to going bust. Key staff resign, angry at not having been paid their bonuses.

Eventually the cafe bar weathers the storm. A new management regime is introduced, with tighter financial controls and a new stock control system. The key lesson: a new business needs a sound financial base.