SBA 7(a) Coffee Shop Feasibility Study in South Dakota

What SBA's own loan files show about SBA 7(a) lending to coffee shop and snack bar projects in South Dakota, and what a feasibility study for an SBA 7(a) loan there has to test.

What South Dakota adds to the national coffee shop and snack bar picture

Set beside the country, South Dakota contributes 35 SBA 7(a) loans for coffee shop and snack bar projects, $11.0 million overall, FY2017 to FY2026. In South Dakota the class stands 3 of 39, and South Dakota itself ranks 43 among states for coffee shop and snack bar. The $184,000 median is 0.82x of the coffee shop and snack bar median nationwide under SBA 7(a), so South Dakota sits below what coffee shop and snack bar tickets show elsewhere. In South Dakota, half of coffee shop and snack bar loans fall from $87,550 to $341,250, and franchising marks 42.9% of South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar loans.

The coffee shop and snack bar holder table and map for South Dakota

The First National Bank in Sioux Falls (10 loans, $2.7 million) and First Bank & Trust (6 loans, $4.5 million) head the South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar holder table. South Dakota names follow SBA's current-holder field. Minnehaha County, 14 loans, Pennington County, 10 loans, Lincoln County, 4 loans, Brookings County, 2 loans and Brown County, 1 loan: those are the leading South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar places.

Year-by-year volume in South Dakota

The South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar record opens at 1 loan and $259,000 in FY2017, peaks at 9 loans ($2.6 million) in FY2025, and South Dakota closes the series at 3 loans and $1.1 million in FY2026.

Floors for coffee shop and snack bar lenders to read

The South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar cancellation rate is held back: coffee shop and snack bar approvals are too few, so this South Dakota page offers no coffee shop and snack bar figure for it. For South Dakota coffee shop and snack bar loans, no South Dakota charge-off rate is shown for coffee shop and snack bar funded FY2017 to FY2021: the South Dakota cohort is under the threshold, and for coffee shop and snack bar that is not zero.

South Dakota cafes: the study behind the loan

A small-market cafe must live on repeat visits. A South Dakota study should count morning and afternoon traffic, nearby cafes, bakeries and convenience stores, and test the average ticket and visits per day the menu needs. Equipment, build-out and any lease terms go beside loans around $184,000, with coverage tested through a slow winter. Franchise affiliation, flagged on 42.9% of loans, brings fees and standards that must be in the budget.

South Dakota cafes and the silent loss column

Coffee shops and snack bars have no coding caveat, yet the South Dakota loss rate is withheld, and lenders should lean on the study's downside case.

SBA 7(a) coffee shop and snack bar loans in South Dakota

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202635
Gross dollars approved$11.0 million
Median loan$184,000
Middle half of loans, from$87,550
Middle half of loans, to$341,250
Franchise share of loans42.9%
Rank among states for SBA 7(a) coffee shop and snack bar loans, by number of loans43
Rank of coffee shop and snack bar among classes in South Dakota3 of 39
Median loan against the national SBA 7(a) median for the class0.82x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor) not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA 7(a) coffee shop and snack bar loans approved in South Dakota, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 1Loans, FY2018: 1Loans, FY2019: 3Loans, FY2020: 4Loans, FY2021: 2Loans, FY2022: 2Loans, FY2023: 2Loans, FY2024: 8Loans, FY2025: 9Loans, FY2026: 3
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20171$259,000
FY20181$349,500
FY20193$444,600
FY20204$762,500
FY20212$302,000
FY20222$811,000
FY20232$2.5 million
FY20248$1.8 million
FY20259$2.6 million
FY20263$1.1 million

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
The First National Bank in Sioux Falls10$2.7 million
First Bank & Trust6$4.5 million

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
MINNEHAHA14
PENNINGTON10
LINCOLN4
BROOKINGS2
BROWN1
CODINGTON1
LAWRENCE1
MOODY1
UNION1

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; Loan Analytics loan-outcome cell SAP-SD-C39-7A.

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