Cutting the costa your coffee – £1 cafes coming to Britain

JAMES ANDREWS
2 JULY 2015
MIRROR UK
Imagine a cafe that sells everything for £1… It’s about to be reality. A major chain offering that is coming to the UK – and you don’t even have to wait that long
Look at almost any high street and you’ll see a string of cafes and pound shops – but when you can pay £3.95 for a Starbucks’ coffee and more than that for a sandwich at Pret, you could rightly ask why there aren’t any pound cafes?
Well, good news! Not only do they exist in huge numbers overseas, but there’s already one in the UK and a major chain is looking at setting up business here too.
In late 2013 Cofix launched in Israel, less than two years later its got 80 outlets and is looking to expand to Britain.
“It is a significant saving because I can go to – I won’t mention any names – these other fine coffee shops in Jerusalem but I can wind up spending four five times as much money for basically the same thing,” one happy customer told Reuters.
“Here I get quick service, I can sit down and relax, the coffee is just as good, very consistent and cheap,” Yaakov Goldman said.
Cofix has plans to launch in London, but they’ve already been beaten to the punch by copycat coffee shop Caffix.
Caffix opened in late May this year and sells everything from baguettes to muffins to fresh juice and noodle salad for £1. And coffee of course.