Coffee Shops News – Page 15
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NewsCaffè Nero resumes UK openings programme
Caffè Nero is to open two flagship airport sites within Stansted and Belfast airports, with six further store openings in the coming months
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NewsWatchHouse builds pipeline
The speciality coffee shop operator will add a new cafe off Bond Street, on top of forthcoming sites in Marlybone and Covent Garden, founder Roland Horne told MCA
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NewsHeavenly Desserts targeting 50 stores this year
The premium dessert cafe has lined up its first site in central London as it expands in the capital, with other openings in Glasgow, Brighton, Canterbury and Bath, MD Yousif Aslam told MCA
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NewsCaffè Nero sales reach +90% of pre-Covid levels
The group achieved sales of £135.7m in the six months to November 2021 – an increase of 211% on the same period in 2020, with trade having strengthened further
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NewsStarbucks drive-thrus boost sales
Franchise business 23.5 Degrees posted profits of £10.3m last year after investing in new sales channels
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NewsNero Group acquires remaining stake in Coffee#1
The group has reached an agreement to acquire SA Brain’s remaining 33% stake in Coffee#1
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NewsGreggs to open concept cafe at Primark
Described as the “world’s most Instagrammable Greggs”, the 130-seater cafe will open in Primark’s Birmingham store at the weekend
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NewsBoston Tea Party to open three sites in 2022
Chief executive Sam Roberts told MCA the all-day cafe brand was gearing up to open its 25th restaurant next week in Torquay, as well as a cafe in the Milton Keynes shopping centre in June/July
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NewsKnoops plans up to 10 new stores
CEO Tori Nunn told MCA the focus for the boutique hot chocolate shop operator would largely be in the south of England for operational efficiency reasons
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NewsPret ups price of coffee subscription
Pret has increased the price for new subscribers by £5 to £25 from today, with the increase to apply to existing subscribers in March.
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NewsShaftesbury boosts F&B offering at Seven Dials
WatchHouse Coffee and Aspirational Brands are among the operators broadening the offering within Seven Dials.
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NewsPret signs up two further UK franchisees
Dallas Holdings and K&Z Group are to join Pret’s growing base of franchise partners as it looks to double the size of the business over the next five years.
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NewsPaul Campbell: ‘Plenty of room for specialty coffee expansion’
Speaking to MCA after joining 200 Degrees as chairman, he said there was scope to improve the coffee offering across the country
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NewsCarluccio’s coffee machines rolled out
Boparan has launched the branded self-service machines across 20 Sainsbury’s Local stores
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NewsThe Breakfast Club enters ‘accelerated growth’ phase
The ambition comes despite a shortage of chefs which it is tackling by opening a training academy at its Hoxton branch
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NewsCoffee shops facing significant cost pressures on beans
Increasing cost pressures on raw materials look set to force up the price of a cup of coffee for consumers
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NewsUrban Baristas restarts expansion
The speciality coffee shop group is set to open a 750sq ft unit in a former Caffe Nero site at 22-24 Wormwood Street, in the City
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NewsCosta announces M&S tie-up
The partnership will see 30 M&S food products available to Costa customers, including new lunch options, hot meal boxes, children’s foods, sandwiches and salads
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NewsBankers boosting sales at Pret
City workers are returning to their offices at rates outstripping Paris and New York if Pret’s sales are anything to go by.
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NewsBlack Sheep eyes 100 sites
Black Sheep Coffee is looking to double its estate of 50 sites by the end of summer 2022.