Creams Cafe
Covers developments from a dessert-focused hospitality brand specialising in indulgent sundaes, waffles, crepes, and shakes. Updates include new store openings, menu launches, seasonal specials, and marketing campaigns, alongside insights into brand expansion strategy, investment activity, and consumer trends shaping the UK dessert café and casual dining sectors.
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Jan- 2024 -23 JanuaryCafes and Coffee Shops
Creams Cafe reveals record festive trading
Creams Cafe has announced that it saw record trading over the festive period with like-for-like in-cafe sales up 5.8% in December against the same period in 2022. The company also revealed that its delivery sales experienced an uplift with an increase in sales of 2.5%. The year-on-year growth comes following…
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Oct- 2023 -16 OctoberNews
Today’s news in brief – 16/10/23
Loungers reported H1 total revenues of £149.6m, marking a 22.3% increase from the previous year. They achieved one-year like-for-like sales growth of 7.7% over the 24 weeks ending 1 October, showing an acceleration from the 5.7% growth reported for the 12 weeks ending 9 July. The company opened 16 new…
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16 OctoberRestaurants
Creams Cafe appoints new COO
Creams Cafe has announced the appointment of Oliver Rodbard as its new chief operating officer, as the company heads for international expansion. Rodbard brings over 16 years of experience gleaned in the food and hospitality industry within franchise models. He joins Creams Cafe from Soul Foods Group, a global franchisee…
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Aug- 2023 -2 AugustBusiness
Creams to open in Tesco cafés
Creams has announced that it has reached an agreement with Tesco Family Dining to put Creams cafes into Tesco Café outlets. This deal is the first nationwide franchise agreement for Creams and will see Creams launching within Tesco Cafés as shop-in-shop spaces, a first for both brands. The first Tesco…
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Apr- 2023 -3 AprilNews
Creams to open two new locations under new partnership
One of UK’s leading dessert destinations, Creams Cafe, is set to further extend its reach with two openings agreed under a new partnership with Park Garage Group. The sites will open in Wigan and Blackburn in April and come in response to seeing a rapidly increasing demand for the brand…
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Jan- 2023 -23 JanuaryCafes and Coffee Shops
Salonica Maroon increases Creams shareholding
Investment firm Salonica Maroon has announced that it has acquired further shareholdings in Creams Cafe. Salonica Maroon co-invested in the dessert business alongside majority shareholder Pistachio Holdings in December 2020. Creams opened a flagship store in Manchester Arndale Centre in December 2022 and has 15 new locations in the pipeline…
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Dec- 2022 -14 DecemberPeople
Creams Cafe appoints new product development manager
Dessert restaurant brand, Creams Cafe has announced the appointment of Bethany Stone as its new product development manager. Stone joins the brand with over 10 years of experience from Fuerst Day Lawson LTD, where she held the position of group innovation manager. In that role, she was responsible for short…
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Sep- 2022 -23 SeptemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Creams launches emergency support package for franchisees
Creams has announced it has launched an emergency franchise partner support package to help and guide its partners through inflationary pressures, the cost-of-living crisis and other ongoing economic and societal challenges. The full support package includes financial incentives such as a reduction on royalty fees from October 2022 until February…
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Aug- 2022 -16 AugustRestaurants
Creams Cafe to open four new regional restaurants
Creams Cafe has announced it will open four “key” regional openings in the next quarter in a bid to strengthen its market position, located in Manchester, New Haw, Sheffield and York. The Manchester restaurant is set to be the newest flagship for Creams Cafe. Situated within Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre,…
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Jun- 2022 -27 JuneCafes and Coffee Shops
Creams Cafe to open at Manchester Arndale
Dessert restaurant brand, Creams Cafe, will be opening at Manchester Arndale later this year with a new 2,325 square feet store at the centre. The store, which has been let on a 15-year lease, will offer the full Creams Cafe experience with the brand’s menu of desserts for dine-in, takeaway…
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