Costa Coffee is reopening one other 29 stores tomorrow for deliveries and drive-thrus throughout the UK.
It comes after the excessive road espresso chain – which closed all branches when the UK went into lockdown on March 23 – opened two branches for supply and two for drive-thru final week.
Costa CEO Jill McDonald stated: “Last week we made the choice to re-open two Drive-Thru lanes and two stores for supply solely in step with the most recent Government recommendation.
“The security of our staff members and prospects is our primary precedence and forward of those stores re-opening, we put in place new social distancing pointers, enhanced hygiene procedures and are offering groups with private protecting gear.
“We have been actually happy with how effectively our stores groups have been ready to adapt to our new methods working, permitting us to serve nice espresso, as safely as potential.
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“We have additionally acquired some nice suggestions from our prospects and key staff profiting from having fun with a well-deserved espresso break while on important journeys to or from work.
“We can be growing the variety of Drive-Thru lanes and stores open for supply through Uber Eats from tomorrow (2 May).”
Over the previous month, the espresso chain has stored some stores inside hospitals open to serve NHS workers.
From May 2, 19 of the branches can be open for supply, whereas 14 can be drive-thru solely.
Mr McDonald added: “As a part of re-opening these extra stores, we’re persevering with to assist help everybody who’s preserving the nation transferring, delivering 1000’s of our Ready-to-Drink Costa Coffee cans to key staff close to these stores re-opening, together with hospitals, police and hearth stations and NHS name centres. It’s simply one in every of our small tokens of appreciation to the folks on the market who’re giving a lot.
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“Whilst most of our stores remain closed we continue to pay our store team members 100% pay and are incredibly grateful to those who have volunteered to work across these re-opening stores and to those who have been managing our first four stores this past week.”
This is the complete listing of Costa Coffee branches reopening:
April 24 (Already open)
- Manchester White City (drive-thru)
- Mansfield Sutton Road (drive-thru)
- Manchester Oxford Road (supply solely)
- Avonmeads Retail Park (supply solely)
May 2: Drive-thru
- Bodelwyddan
- Croydon
- Edinburgh Sharpdale
- Enterprise Swansea
- Faringdon
- Glasgow Braehead
- Harwich
- Ipswich
- Norwich
- Poole
- Sittingbourne
- St Ives
- Stowmarket
- Toddington North
- Toddington South
- Wakefield Snowhill
- Watford Arches Retail Park
May 2: Delivery solely
- Birmingham Navigation Street
- Edinburgh South Bridge
- Leeds Crown Point
- Leicester St Georges Retail Park
- Newcastle Gallowgate Wellbar
- Peckham
- Peterborough Brotherhood Retail Park
- Plymoth New George
- Richmond
- Romford Pavillion Retail Park
- Tooley Street
- Whitechapel
