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Know your goals, market and area. Do you intend to get most of your business by being a destination or feature store, or will you hope for a lot of passing footfall?

Think about additional revenue streams, can you use parts of your facilities for other purposes?

Think about your opening hours and how they'll really work around your likely clientele.

Got two LGS and a GW,

GW is a pig to go to, it's open 11-13, then 14.30-19.30 Tues-Sat, closes Sun-Mon and Wednesday morning. Also has no parking within a 10 minute walk (though, to be fair almost the entire town is car free with good public transport and bike network. Just a pig for folk like me who live in a different​ city).

LGS #1 opens Mon-Sat, 9.30-12.30, then 15.30-19.30 (21.00 on Friday) and has a secondary school and college on the same block, both of which let the students out at 13.00.

LGS #2 doesn't do mornings. Opens Tues-Sun at 14.30 and closes at 20.00, apart from Tues, Weds and Friday when it's open till 2am.