Coffee consultant · Lahore, Pakistan
Ahmed Hussain plans, builds and trains specialty coffee businesses across Pakistan, from the first sketch of your bar to the thousandth perfect flat white.
Meet your consultant
Opening a café in Pakistan is a hundred decisions at once: the lease, the machine, the grinder, the beans, the menu, the people. Most owners make them alone, and pay for the wrong ones twice.
Ahmed works beside you from the first idea to the weeks after opening. He is based in Lahore and works on site in every major city of Pakistan, so the advice fits local rents, local suppliers, local power and local taste.
Lahore based
On site across Lahore, and in every major city by plan.
Hands-on
Training happens at your bar, on your machine, with your team.
Independent advice
Equipment and beans are chosen for your café, not for a catalogue.
Numbers first
Every recommendation comes with its cost and its effect on margin.
Ahmed HussainCoffee Consultant, Lahore
More about AhmedTrack record
Ahmed started young, from washing cups to running bars, across Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Today that experience goes into every café he sets up.
Café launch · Lahore
Months of planning, tastings, trials and staff training before the doors of Retrograde Coffee opened in Lahore.
Beverage expert
Signature drinks and flavour work as a beverage expert at Monin events and café opening days, including The Point in Lahore.
Teams and training
Years of hands-on work in both countries: training teams, building coffee programmes and planning bar workflows.
Services
Book one service or the whole journey. Each comes with a written deliverable you keep.
01
From concept and location to opening day: a complete plan for a café that works from the first cup.
02
Hands-on training for your team in espresso, milk, latte art, hygiene and speed of service.
03
Signature drinks and a menu priced for margin, with recipes your team can repeat on a busy evening.
04
The right espresso machine, grinders, water filtration and brewers for your volume and budget.
05
A bar layout that lets two baristas serve a queue without crossing paths, inside a room guests remember.
06
Planning a small-batch roastery: roaster choice, ventilation, roast profiles and quality control.
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Choosing beans and roasters that suit your menu, with cupping, blend design and supply continuity.
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Investment, running costs, cost per cup and break-even, written so you can decide before you sign a lease.
How a consultation works
Coffee consulting should feel like a plan, not a mystery. This is how every engagement runs.
We talk through your idea, budget, timeline and site. You leave with an honest view of what it takes.
Call notes and next steps
Ahmed visits the space (or your running café) to check the bar position, utilities, flow and competition nearby.
Site and workflow audit
A written plan: concept, bar layout, equipment list, menu direction, costs and a dated roadmap to opening.
Café plan with budget
Equipment specified and checked, beans cupped and chosen, recipes written, and your baristas trained on your own bar.
Recipes, specs and trained team
Ahmed is there for the soft opening and follows up in the weeks after to fix what real service reveals.
Launch review and follow-ups
What you walk away with
Every engagement ends with tools your team uses daily. These are samples of three of them.
Flat white
180 ml ceramic
Purge, tamp level, pour within 10 s of extraction.
Flat white · PKR
| Coffee 18 g | 108 |
|---|---|
| Milk 130 ml | 42 |
| Cup, lid, sleeve | 0 |
| Waste allowance 5% | 8 |
| Cost per cup | 158 |
| Menu price | 650 |
Station: espresso
4 of 5 signed off
Coffee consultant in Lahore
From MM Alam Road and Gulberg to DHA, Johar Town and the Walled City, Lahore has become one of the most exciting places in Pakistan to open a café. It is also one of the most competitive.
Being based in Lahore means Ahmed can be at your site the same week, meet your contractor, test your machine on installation day and train your team in the days before you open.
Working across
Across Pakistan
Lahore is home. Karachi, Islamabad and the rest of Pakistan are a planned visit away, with remote support between visits.
Who it’s for
A clear path from idea to opening day, without paying for mistakes twice.
Better coffee, faster service and a menu that earns more per cup.
A coffee programme that matches the rest of your kitchen.
Roastery planning, profiling and a quality routine you can trust.
Coffee bars and equipment for staff and visitors.
Feasibility, budgets and a model that can open a second site.
Ready when you are
Tell Ahmed where your plan stands today. You get a clear next step within one working day.
FAQ
Still unsure? Ask Ahmed on WhatsApp.
A coffee consultant helps you plan, open and run a coffee business: concept and location, bar layout, equipment, beans, menu and pricing, and barista training. The aim is a café that serves great coffee consistently and makes money doing it.
Ahmed is based in Lahore and works there on site any week. He also works on site in Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Sialkot and other cities by planned visit, with remote support by call and WhatsApp in between.
Yes. Many engagements start with a running café: an audit of the bar, the coffee and the numbers, followed by retraining, a menu and pricing update, or an equipment change where it pays back.
It depends on size, location, fit-out and equipment, so the honest answer comes after a short discovery call. The feasibility and business plan service puts a full budget and a break-even point on paper before you sign a lease.
The consulting is about choosing what is right for your café. Ahmed specifies equipment and beans, compares quotes from suppliers in Pakistan and checks the installation, so you buy with confidence.
A new team usually needs several days of hands-on sessions on their own bar before opening, then follow-up sessions after launch. The plan depends on the menu and on the team’s experience.
Send a message on WhatsApp or use the form on this page with your city and where your plan stands. Ahmed replies within one working day to set up the discovery call.
From the blog
Location, licences, budget, equipment, team and launch: the full path to opening a coffee shop in Lahore, from a consultant who does it on the ground.
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How to budget a café in Pakistan: start-up costs, cost per cup, rent-to-sales ratio and the break-even maths that decides whether to sign the lease.
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Groups, boilers, grinders, water and voltage: how to choose café espresso equipment in Pakistan that suits your volume, power supply and after-sales.
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