Welcome
Hello…and welcome to our second Café Life issue of 2025 – and it feels like summer already. Let’s hope it isn’t a brief warmer spell, with July & August descending into cloud cover, a la 2024! Either way, café operators are well aware of opportunities around increased footfall.
And all our coverage is reflective of the incredible resilience in our sector. It’s a challenge sometimes just finding the time to arrange interviews with everyone I wish to speak to. However, there’s always further opportunity in our bumper autumn edition – which is already in planning!
So, whether it’s coffee machines or chocolate & biscuits, shopfitting & design or recycling initiatives, iced tea & decaf coffee, RTD on the rise and tasty pies… there really is something for everyone.
We are over one year in as a ‘seasonal’ publication. I felt it would give the brand a more distinctive identity, helping operators & advertisers/subscribers gain further print and digital traction. And it would be remiss of me not to thank everyone who continues to make CL such a success. I hope you enjoy the issue… and some shockingly good weather!
Cheers!
Alex Bell - Editor
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Contents
REGULARS
4 Lifestyle – Featuring: Birch / Lost Sheep Coffee / Blue Turaco / Kimbo / Lincoln & York / Kaytea / Beyond the Bean / Bridor / BRITA / Phat Pasty / Bears Ice Cream / The Udder Way
COFFEE MACHINES
34 Franke
38 Schaerer
40 Gaggia Milano
CHOCOLATE & BISCUITS
42 IBC Simply
46 Eversys
48 Biscoff
50 Ferrero
RECYCLABLE PRODUCTS
52 Vegware
SHOPFITTING & DESIGN
54 Nisbets
