Costa Coffee

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Costa Coffee
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Locations:	52 MSAs
Predecessors:	Cafe Continental, Caffe Ritazza, Little Chef
Successors:	none
Website: costa.co.uk

Costa Coffee "Italian about coffee" can be found in most stylish towns and shopping areas, including RoadChef motorway services and now most Moto ones. They started off in London back in 1971 and have proven very popular since.

It is RoadChef's coffee provider, after they used it to replace their self-branded Cafe Continental. Until recently Moto only used Caffe Ritazza, but they have started introducing Costa. Welcome Break use their own Coffee Primo.

RoadChef have refurbished most of their outlets, and even changed their operating logo to read 'RoadChef Costa Coffee', sneakily allowing them to advertise Costa from the motorway. Moto later decided to go one better, changing their headboard to 'Costa M&S' or 'Costa Burger King' where appropriate.

Costa Coffee also offer a Costa Card, giving customers the option to pre-pay for their drinks. Coffee Primo are currently trying this idea. They take pride in fair trade, and every year they finance programmes to help the communities providing their stock.

Locations

• Annandale Water (A74(M))
• Bothwell (M74) (southbound only)
• Blyth (A1(M)/A1)
• Bridgwater (M5)
• Cardiff West (M4)
• Cherwell Valley (M40/A43)
• Chester (M56)
• Chieveley (M4/A34)
• Clacket Lane (M25)
• Doncaster (North) (M18/M180)
• Donington Park (M1/A42/A50)
• Durham (A1(M))
• Exeter (M5)
• Ferrybridge (M62/A1)
• Frankley (M5) (northbound only)
• Hamilton (M74) (northbound only)
• Heston (M4)
• Hilton Park (M6)
• Killington Lake (M6) (southbound only)
• Kinross (M90)
• Knutsford (M6)
• Leigh Delamere (M4)
• Lancaster (M6)
• Lymm (M6/M56)
• Maidstone (M20)
• Markfield (M1)
• Medway (M2)
• Northampton (M1/A43)
• Norton Canes (M6 Toll)
• Pont Abraham (M4)
• Rownhams (M27)
• Sandbach (M6)
• Sedgemoor (South) (M5) (southbound only)
• Severn View (M48)
• Southwaite (M6) (northbound only)
• Stafford (North) (M6) (northbound only)
• Stafford (South) (M6) (southbound only)
• Stirling (M9/M80)
• Strensham (M5)
• Swansea (M4)
• Tamworth (M42/A5)
• Taunton Deane (M5)
• Thurrock (M25/A13/A282)
• Tibshelf (M1)
• Tiverton (M5)
• Toddington (M1)
• Todhills (M6)
• Trowell (M1)
• Washington (A1(M)) (northbound only)
• Watford Gap (M1)
• Wetherby (A1(M))
• Winchester (M3)
• Woolley Edge (M1)

Costa Coffee haven't closed any units at motorway services.

A-road Services

• Calcutt (A419) (northbound only)
• Dover Port (A20)
• Finavon (A90)
• Grantham North (A1)
• Scotch Corner (A1/A66)
• Whiddon Down (A30)

Comments and Reviews

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Author: Message: Anonymous Costa will be replacing Caffe Ritazza at Toddington, not in addition to. Opening date is 28th January. Posted: 22 Jan 2009, 20:32 Chris For people who like Costa coffee if you are an RAC member you can get 15% discount Posted: 17 Dec 2008, 13:56 Amanda. costa is going into most little chef units now! The one in ferrybridge is changing in 2 weeks! Posted: 18 Oct 2008, 11:54 airborne The quality of you coffee leaves a lot to be desired. You forgot to any arabica bean in with the robusta. Producing a tasteless adourless cup of black water and have the ordacity to charge £2.40. When we burnt the beans at Lyons they were better tasteing tha yours. I wont be stopping at Costa Coffe again Posted: 30 Jul 2008, 15:48 Johnny I don't have a clue how well rolled out Costa is because their website still says that their new stores will be opening on the 31st March. Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 15:15 MatthewB6323 The comment about Costa not necessarily replacing Ritazza at all outlets was from me, before I remembered that I had a login here... Interesting. The roll out of Costa at Moto isn't yet complete, I think, so let's see what happens... Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 15:02 Johnny Interesting that you should say that, because there is absolutely no reference to Caffe Ritazza at Cherwell on their website, so I presumed it had gone. I'll have to find out what's going on in their minds, and I can ask about EDC at the same time. Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 19:11 Anonymous Moto don't seem to be directly replacing Cafe Ritazza with Costa, as the two sit alongside each other comfortably at Cherwell Valley. Costa appear to be moving into former Little Chef units. Cafe Ritazza isn't necessarily being phased out, either, as its space was recently expanded at Tamworth. Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 13:09 Admin Post your comments and reviews on Costa Coffee here, or you can return to Costa Coffee. Posted: 06 Sep 2005, 17:01
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