Coffee houses of the United Kingdom

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Caff%C3%A8 Nero

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Caff%C3%A8 Ritazza

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Carpenter%27s Coffee House

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The Cat%27s Whisker

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Coffee 1

Coffee#1 is a British coffee house chain that originated in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. Since 2011 it has been owned by Cardiff brewery company SA Brain. Coffee#1 now has outlets across Wales and southern England.

Coffee#1 started in 2001 with the opening a coffee shop on Wood Street, Cardiff, by entrepreneur James Shapland. By 2011 it had 15 outlets across South Wales and South West England and had twice won the Cafe Society's Coffee Bar Chain of the Year award.

In the autumn of 2011, Coffee#1 was bought by the Cardiff brewery company SA Brain, who wished to diversify from their successful pub business. The move was seen as a symptom of the tough trading conditions in the beer market. Brains had previously had Costa Coffee outlets in several of its pubs.

In 2013 another nine outlets were added and in 2014 sales grew by 55%.

In April 2015 the company opened their 50th outlet, in Fareham, Hampshire, giving them a total workforce of 380. At the end of 2015 the chain included 57 coffee shops across Wales and parts of southern and central England. It planned to open another 15 in 2016.

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Coffee Republic

Coffee Republic Trading Ltd.

Coffee Republic is a British coffee bar and deli franchise chain founded in 1995.

In 1995 Coffee Republic was founded by brother and sister team Bobby and Sahar Hashemi. It opened its first site in London's South Molton Street.

In 1996 Coffee Republic Ltd was founded in Greece by Kostas Dalakouras and partners, and still operates in Horeca market all over Greece, providing gourmet coffee products and services. The company is Coffee Republic S.a. now and owns the national trademark for Greece.

By 1997 Coffee Republic had opened a further 7 stores in London and opened its first stores in Newcastle and Manchester.

The group was listed on AIM in 1998 by reversing into Arion Properties. The group grew to 24 branches after opening 17 new sites between March and November and had expanded to York, Birkenhead, Newcastle and Manchester.

Coffee Republic switched from AIM to the full list in July 2000. At this point, it had 61 coffee bars and cafés and announced plans to open 80 more by 2002.

Bobby Hashemi stepped down as chief executive in March 2001, but continued as a non-executive director; he returned as executive chairman in the summer of 2002.

Coffee Republic bought the GoodBean coffee bar chain in December 2001, thus gaining 12 outlets in south-east England and seven further sites under construction. The acquisition took the group to 108 outlets.

In July 2002, the group announced plans to halt its expansion programme, sell underperforming bars and launch a strategic business review as annual losses grew. A number of takeover talks ensued with easyGroup, Benjys and Caffè Nero but all offers were rejected. Coffee Republic sold 13 sites to Starbucks and returned to an AIM listing.

In August 2003, Coffee Republic unveiled a survival plan to convert itself into a New York-style deli-bar chain called Coffee Republic Deli and whittle its numbers down to a core of 50 outlets. It piloted the concept at Baker Street and Exchange Street in London.

In June 2004 Coffee Republic sold eight outlets in Cardiff and southern England to Caffè Nero. The group signed its first franchise deal in November 2005 and ended the year with four franchised outlets. It intended to retain just 10 to 15 bars under company ownership.

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Costa Coffee

Costa Coffee

Costa Coffee is a British multinational coffeehouse company headquartered in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Whitbread. It is the second largest coffeehouse chain in the world behind Starbucks and the largest in the UK.

Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the Costa family as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. Acquired by Whitbread in 1995, it has since grown to 3,401 stores across 31 countries. The business has 2,121 UK restaurants, over 6,000 Costa Express vending facilities and a further 1,280 outlets overseas (including 395 in China).

Italian immigrant brothers Bruno and Sergio Costa founded a coffee roastery in Lambeth, London, in 1971, supplying local caterers. The family had moved to England in the 1960s. Costa branched out to selling coffee in 1978, when its first store opened in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London.

In 1985, Sergio bought out Bruno's share of the company. Bruno went on to found a tableware company. By 1995, the chain had 41 stores in UK. In 1995, the business was acquired by Whitbread, UK's largest hotel and coffee shop operator, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. In 2009, Costa opened its 1,000th store in Cardiff. In December 2009, Costa Coffee agreed to acquire Coffee Heaven for £36 million, adding 79 stores in central and eastern Europe.

Costa Coffee operates 2,121 outlets in the United Kingdom as of May 2016. Internationally, it operates 1,280 stores throughout the world in 31 countries. The first Costa store outside the UK opened in Dubai in 1999.

As well as high street locations, Costa Coffee outlets can be found in airports and in Waterstone's bookstores, WHSmith, Homebase branches, larger Next stores, Marriott Hotels, Odeon Cinemas, some Premier Inn hotels, Waitrose, Debenhams and Tesco stores, Pizza Hut branches, Beefeater pubs, Moto and RoadChef motorway services and in some hospitals and the Newcastle and Manchester Primark branches. Smaller sub-units are also set up in railway stations and airports throughout the UK. Many of Costa Coffee's branches located in airports, cinemas and hospitals are either individual or corporate franchises. Costa Coffee also has small outlets positioned on out-of-town business parks, often among other food retailers, and on-site at various businesses.

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Cyberia, London

Cyberia, London was the first internet café ever established, providing desktop computers with full Internet access in a café environment. Founded in 39 Whitfield Street, Fitzrovia London, in September 1994 by Eva Pascoe, David Rowe, Keith Teare and Gene Teare, the space served as an early hub for those with an interest in computing and the Net. The Cyberia franchise expanded to encompass a range of cafés in the UK and around the world.

Cyberia was intended to be a women only venture, providing a space in which women could learn and play with new technologies in their own space. After launching the space however, Cyberia soon became very popular and this was no longer feasible. The internet café offered training sessions in key digital skills, notable alumni include Gary Barlow, David Bowie and Kylie Minogue.

Cyberia London basement spaces were also a thriving hub of activity. Subcyberia, home to the post-rave Sunday morning breakfast club and the café's gamer space, was frequented with gamers 24/7 such as Richard Bartle. Transcyberia, a "semi-nerd lab room creative technology centre" for software developers and designers, played host to a range of organisations including Michael Gurstein's Community Informatics Research Network.Ivan Pope's Webmedia, one of the first web design and build companies, was a tenant occupying part of the basement.

Cyberia enjoyed superfast internet access as a result of their partnership with the Easynet ISP founded by Rowe and Teare, who operated from the same building as the internet café. In turn Cyberia marketed Easynet products and services and were often the first port of call for Easynet customers looking for support for their new systems. Other early investors in Cyberia included Mick Jagger and Maurice Saatchi.

Around a dozen branches, some of which were franchises, were opened both in the UK and abroad, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, Rotterdam, Bangkok, Manilla, Tokyo and Paris. Cyberia Paris is of particular note, having been the first and last British enterprise to have leased space within the prestigious Pompidou Centre. By 1996, some 200 cybercafés had opened around the world, emulating the success of Cyberia.

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Forest Caf%C3%A9

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Freeth%27s Coffee House

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