Gather & Gather, Mitie’s catering business, has launched Bench, its first high street café, located in the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Farringdon.
Launched under the strapline of ‘coffee, kitchen, craft’, the concept features coffee from Bristol roasters Extract Coffee and a menu of hot sandwiches, salads and daily changing main dishes.
Artisan cakes and breakfast patisserie are all available from 8am on the 72-cover café’s ‘bench’, a large table in the centre of venue.
Allister Richards, managing director of Gather & Gather, said: “Bench is a really exciting project for us because as well as taking the Gather & Gather concept into the high street arena for the first time. Bench exemplifies Gather & Gather’s approach of bringing food and people together and the importance of creating a collaborative space for the local community to interact with each other over food and coffee.”
