Introducing Barista & Beyond
Following the incredible outcome of our Crowdfunding campaign, we have been able to begin the process of setting up our café!
Our Crowdfunding campaign managed to raise nearly £11,000 which was an incredible result that is fundamental in allowing our café plans to even go ahead. We want to thank everyone who supported this fundraising effort and helped us to raise this money for such an important project!
In a recent blog post by Reading Borough Council, they announced our partnership with New Directions College, who will be providing off-site education and training for our potential café staff. Of course, we are not the first people to set up a café with a view to helping people get jobs but we think this partnership is one of the things that sets us apart - learners and potential future café employees will have the opportunity to learn how to make the food products, drinks, and even use the till system in a learning environment before having to do it for real. This will make a huge difference to confidence levels and the customer experience in the café. We just can’t wait to get started now! To read more about what Reading Borough Council has to say on the project you can read their article here.
Last week we announced the name of our new café – Barista & Beyond! We ran a poll on social media to find out what the public’s favourite name was and Barista & Beyond was our clear winner gaining nearly 70% of the votes!
Barista & Beyond is located in the heart of Reading by the Broadstreet Mall, just off the Oxford Road. Our café space is yet to be designed and fitted with all our new café equipment, but thanks to the success of our Crowdfunding campaign we are able to begin this process. Here is our Managing Director Becky in the current café space which we are excited to develop and watch turn into Barista & Beyond very soon! We have begun meeting with designers and have started looking at the interior plans and designs for the café space. This week we also had a meeting with a branding agency and have started to design our branding for Barista & Beyond including our logo and other marketing designs. There will be lots more exciting information and updates coming soon so keep an eye on our social media channels!
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