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17 jobs created as new Starbucks store opens in Bradley Stoke

17 jobs created as new Starbucks store opens in Bradley Stoke

Tuesday 13 December 2022, UK:A new Starbucks®store, operated by regional licensee Cobra Coffee, will be opening tomorrow in Bradley Stoke, creating 17 new jobs in the local community.

To celebrate the opening, the store will be offering 50 lucky customers complimentary reusable cups every day for the first week.

This will be the sixth Starbucks®store in and around Bristol which is part of a regional co-operative family that also runs several retail stores including The Co-operative Food in Long Down Avenue.

Customers are invited to enjoy the Holiday menu including the new Praline Cookie Hot Chocolate, or try Starbucks new holiday food items, including the Pigs under Blanket Roll and Toffee Nut Muffin. Starbucks UK proudly serves a broad range of dairy alternative options, including oat, soya, almond and coconutfor free.

Bradley Stoke Store Manager, Simone Guerreiro, said: "I joined Cobra Coffee two and a half years ago as a supervisor and worked my way up becoming an Assistant Manager and now Store Manager. We are excited to open our new store in Bradley Stoke and look forward to welcoming the local community."

The new store, based in Willow Brook Shopping Centre, will offer Too Good To Go from 18 December - a leading surplus food app connecting customers to restaurants and stores that have unsold food.

Andy Wynn, Centre Manager at Willow Brook, said: "There has been a lot of people looking forward to the opening of this new Starbucks store which will bring a new flavour to shopping at Willow Brook. The regional licensee operating this branch has a great team of people who have worked incredibly hard to get to this point and I'm looking forward to trying the festive range of food and drink."

The Drive-Thru store has a contemporary design, with a selection of indoor and outdoor seating, offering customers the opportunity to enjoy a handcrafted cup of coffee and relax with free wi-fi.

Customers can order via the Starbucks UK App, available foriPhone® and Android™, to order ahead, skip the queue and collect to takeaway.Delivery will also be fully available within the month to all customers via Uber Eats and Deliveroo.

Starbucks is committed to 100% ethically sourced coffee in partnership with Conservation International. The cornerstone of its ethical sourcing approach to buying coffee is Coffee and Farmer Equity(C.A.F.E.) Practices.

Starbucks offers a25p discountto all customers who bring a reusable cup when purchasing a drink.

The new store is located at Willow Brook, The Mall, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 8BS and will be open from 6:30am to 8:00pm Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 8:00pm Saturdays, and 8:00am to 6:00pm Sundays.

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Contact:

Felicity Hay, Press and PR Officer, Southern Co-op
press@southerncoops.co.uk/ 02392 222995

Notes to Editors:

About Cobra Coffee Ltd

Founded in Sussex, the Starbucks® franchisee Cobra Coffee (cobracoffee.co.uk) operates more than 60 stores in Berkshire, Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Somerset. In October 2018, it became part of the Southern Co-op family - a large, regional, independent co-operative. Southern Co-op (southernco-op.co.uk) operates more than 300 food, funeral and Starbucks coffee branches across the south of England. Owned by its 150,000 members, it has an annual turnover of over £490m and more than 4,000 colleagues. Southern Co-op's sustainable business approach underpins a commitment to providing a fair, fresh approach, for all.

AboutStarbucks®Coffee Company

Since 1971, Starbucks® Coffee Company has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting high-quality arabica coffee. Today, with more than 33,000 stores around the globe, Starbucks® is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through our unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we bring the unique Starbucks® Experience to life for every customer through every cup. To share in the experience, please visit us in our stores or online athttps://stories.starbucks.com/andwww.Starbucks.com.