Cafes and Coffee Shops

The latest news and updates on cafes and coffee shops, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.

May- 2020 -

14 May

M&S Cafés begin to reopen for takeaway

Marks and Spencer has revealed plans to reopen 49 café locations across the UK today (14 May). The local cafés will be opening for takeaway hot drinks only, and the chosen locations to open are all based on the café being located next to the in-store Foodhall – meaning customers…
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13 May

Starbucks to reopen 150 UK stores for takeaway and delivery

Starbucks has announced the reopening of 150 of its UK sites from tomorrow (14 May), amid the Covid-19 pandemic. With the easing of restrictions allowing more travel on roads, beginning 14 May it will begin a phased reopening of Starbucks drive-thru locations across the UK as well as a handful…
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Mar- 2020 -

24 March

Caffè Nero to close all sites temporarily

Caffè Nero has said all of its stores will close temporarily by the evening of Wednesday 25 March until further notice, amid the Covid-19 outbreak sweeping the UK. The chain said that in the face of this “unprecedented challenge” it’s priority now is to “ensure the safety and wellbeing” of…
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24 March

Tim Horton announces temporary closures to all UK sites amid Covid-19 virus outbreak

Coffee chain Tim Hortons has announced temporary closures at its UK restaurants amid the Covid-19 virus outbreak. The chain, which released a statement on social media confirmed it will close all 25 of its stores by midnight today (24 March). The statement read: “At Tim Hortons, our priority is the…
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23 March

Krispy Kreme UK and Ireland closes sites temporarily amid Covid-19 outbreak

Krispy Kreme has announced the temporary closure of all its UK and Ireland stores amid the recent Covid-19 virus outbreak. In a recent statement, CEO Richard Cheshire said the company took the “difficult decision” to close all its stores from 6pm today (Monday 23 March 2020) for “a little while.”…
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23 March

Costa Coffee announces closures of all UK sites amid Covid-19 outbreak

The Costa Coffee chain has announced the closure of all of its branches amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, resulting in over 2,000 of its stores closing until further notice. The closures, which will take effect from today evening (Monday 23 March), follows the government urging all restaurants, pubs and…
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13 March

London Coffee Festival postponed amid coronavirus fears

Organisers of The London Coffee Festival have confirmed that the event will be postponed amid the recent coronavirus outbreak. The event, which was due to take place next month, is now scheduled to take place between 23-26 July. Jeffree Young, the London Coffee Festival founder and CEO of Allegra Group,…
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Dec- 2019 -

11 December

The Breakfast Club appoints Charlie McVeigh as chairman

The Breakfast Club has appointed Draft House founder and chairman, Charlie McVeigh as chairman. The news of the appointment follows the restaurant reporting record sales and “positive” like-for-like growth for the year. It revealed the first seven months of the current financial year ended with £9.7m worth of sales, increased…
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4 December

Loungers eyes expansion plans as revenues jump 22%

Loungers has announced it is planning to increase its portfolio by 25 properties every year to around 500 sites, after it reported a 22% jump in revenues for the 24-week period ending 6 October 2019. The company, which operates 161 café/bar/restaurants across England and Wales under two Lounge (133 sites)…
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Nov- 2019 -

21 November

Costa Coffee appoints Jill McDonald as CEO

Costa Coffee has appointed Jill McDonald as CEO, after revealing Dominic Paul will step down on 30 November. McDonald will start her new role from 2 December. She started her career as a graduate trainee at Colgate-Palmolive in 1987 and has held three positions in McDonald’s Corp from 2006 to…
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