Mobile Coffee Franchise Doubles Turnover
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 11:59AM 
Mobile coffee franchise Cafe2U has doubled turnover in the six months to August 2008.
The Leeds-based company is on its way to beating its 2007 turnover of £750k and expects to top £1.5m in just its third year of trading.
The coffee franchise, which was originally formed in Australia, was brought to the UK by Leeds Metropolitan University hospitality graduate Tom Acland in 2005, when he fell in love with the coffees he bought from a van in Sydney.
Acland negotiated the European rights to operate the coffee franchise, which is now the UK’s largest mobile coffee brand.
There are plenty of opportunities to buy a Cafe2U franchise given its rapid growth.
“We expect to at least double in size this year and we are currently recruiting a new francise every two weeks," says Acland.
So why has this coffee franchise proven so popular with customers?
"The concept of high quality coffee delivered to your workplace is easy to understand, and this simplicity is one of the factors driving our growth.
“We train all our franchisees to excellent Barista standard, and our coffee blends are carefully selected to ensure we serve restaurant quality coffee wherever we arrive at office parks, factories and workshops - in fact anywhere people ask us to go to.”
Cafe2U now operates 42 custom-built coffee vans selling gourmet coffee and snacks to tens of thousands of customers in the UK every week.
A Cafe2U franchise costs £15k, with owners requiring a further investment of around £34k for the specially designed Mercedes vans equipped with coffee grinders, coffee machines, awnings, fridges and pie warmers.
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