Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day

Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day

More and more people are choosing to have their first meal of the day out-of-home; swapping their Weetabix for a “proper” coffee and a full English. One reason that consumers go out to eat is...

Five Winning Ways Coffee Shops and Restaurants Can Boost Sales and Profitability

Five Winning Ways Coffee Shops and Restaurants Can Boost Sales and Profitability

We Brits spend at least £76 million daily on breakfast or brunch. More than one third of us are eating out at breakfast more frequently than we were two years ago and as many as 15% of us...

Tips For Capitalising on British Appetite for Speciality Coffee

Tips For Capitalising on British Appetite for Speciality Coffee

According to research by Mintel, millennials are driving an increase in coffee shop sales, which are expected to rise a further 10% by 2022. In 2017 alone, the market was valued at...

The Latte Levy – 25p tax on disposable coffee cups

The Latte Levy – 25p tax on disposable coffee cups

The Government is under a huge amount of pressure to reduce the amount of plastic in our oceans – and so they should be. There are 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste on Earth and...

Traditional Tea Facing Stiff Competition

Traditional Tea Facing Stiff Competition

When it comes to young Brits, it seems that your average builder’s brew just isn’t their cup of tea. A new report from consumer analysts Mintel revealed that more than one-third of 25 to 34-year-olds...

Coffee outperforms tea in UK Coffee Shops

Coffee outperforms tea in UK Coffee Shops

Tea sales in the out-of-home coffee shop market are worth £308 million, according to the latest report in the Project Café UK Series by Allegra World Coffee Portal. Sounds good, right? What if...

Why pubs, bars and restaurants need to be serving great tea and coffee!

Why pubs, bars and restaurants need to be serving great tea and coffee!

Tea and coffee is a revenue generator like no other and new research from UCC Coffee UK and Ireland, performed by Allegral World Coffee Portal, has highlighted an extraordinary opportunity for...

A slice of the coffee shop market

A slice of the coffee shop market

Whilst it once seemed a very “Parisian” thing to do, visiting coffee shops is increasingly becoming a big part of British culture. Indeed, it seems that we Brits are full of beans because two thirds of us...