Home Sweet Home

Konditor & Cook's Victoria Sponge cakes look fabulously home made - the others somewhat factory finished. Which appeals more? We always yearn for home and what mum made.

Store with Your Eyes

Storing your produce out front starts a message from the very beginning plus it cuts down on expensive back of house storage space.



It's no surprise that we start our London Cafe Tours at the much mentioned Albion Caff.

You're Framed

Eye-catching menus in gilded frames at a stall in Spitalfields

In Your Face Crisps

Caffe Nero clearly sells more crisps when they (almost) hit you in the face when buying a sandwich. Clipped onto the multideck chiller, these work a treat.











Pret do it slightly differently http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/03/that-extra-sale-crisps.html

Brolly Brilliant

Neat way to both advertise and keep (some) rain off your customers. Cafe Costes in Birmingham

Best Sausage Roll in Town

Peyton & Byrne claim their Londoner sausage roll is the best in town. Certainly a huge improvement on the processed pink 'meat' factory products of old. A great staple product (like quiche) that is being re-discovered in cafes throughout the land as quality is improved.

Slurp with a Spoon

Itsu and M&S are providing those spoons to make it all seem easy. It invites that 'eat me now' reflex. Good idea.