Mangobean, the franchised coffee shop operator, has a pipeline of openings planned for 2015 across the country to build an estate of 125 shops, M&C has learnt.
Sites have been secured in Birmingham, Bolton, York and Harrogate to open before the end of the year and in Bromley and Newcastle’s Metro Centre in 2016.
Founder Shane Saunders told M&C the opening schedule will be “relentlessly aggressive” to grow the pipeline to 125 over five years.
There are currently 22 franchisees signed up looking for suitable sites and he expects to have 15 open by this time next year.
To achieve the growth plan the group will consider all types of locations to open Mangobeans on including high street and shopping centres.
Saunders said: “The coffee market is booming at the moment so as long as we have sites where the footfall is high the bigger the store the better the awareness.”
Mangobean’s ethos is to be the UK’s most affordable coffee shop for both its franchisees and customers.
The most recently opened coffee shop for the brand is in Horsham, West Sussex, which is the fifth for Mangobean and showcases its “second stage” of evolution – Saunders said this is a more refined menu that includes frappes, waffles, smoothies and non-alcoholic coffee cocktails.
The third stage, which will be unveiled in the next phase of openings, will include on-site roasting to allow customers to customise their coffee flavour.
