Really Awesome Coffee is building a community of business-minded coffee lovers. Between our in-house barista training academy, bespoke-built cafés on wheels, and dedicated support officers at HQ, it’s no wonder we’re the UK’s largest mobile café franchise, with a network of 115+ vans on the road.
Really Awesome Coffee will be exhibiting at:
The National Franchise Exhibition
Bringing the café to the customer
Really Awesome Coffee vans bring the café to the customer. Each franchisee operates in their own territory, serving delicious food and drink directly to professionals, event goers, and more. There are no brick-and-mortar bills to pay or fixed rent draining your takings each month. Instead, our hyper-mobile coffee vans are profit-makers on wheels.
Custom-built cafés on wheels
Since 2010, Really Awesome Coffee has grown into the UK’s largest mobile café franchise, with 115+ vans on the road and counting. Our custom-built Mercedes vans are constructed at our in-house workshop, where a team of engineers install the details that keep you trading year-round: an awning that gets you serving in seconds and frost protection so a cold snap doesn’t cost you a day’s takings. Each van is fitted with our bespoke RAPoS EPoS system, a touch-screen till that alerts customers to your arrival and sends live data straight back to Head Office, so support reaches you before you know you need it.
Available territories across the UK
Despite having 115+ vans on the road, we have plenty of territories still available, particularly in Wales, Scotland, the midlands, south and east coasts of England. All territories are mapped and vetted in-house, and, thanks to the hyper-mobility of our vans, daily rounds can be adjusted based on demand. If a stop on your round is underperforming, for example, we help you replace it with another, more profitable location. As demand for coffee rises across the UK, we’re releasing new territories to keep pace with it.
Are you our next really awesome franchise partner?
We’re looking for franchise partners who are really passionate and really hardworking, because that’s what makes us (you guessed it) really awesome. Maybe you want to be your own boss; maybe you want to start your own café. Career change, redundancy, early career professionals, entrepreneurs, it doesn’t matter where you’re starting from. All we ask for is a friendly attitude (and a valid driving licence!). We provide all the training, so you don’t even need a background in coffee to join the Really Awesome Coffee franchise network.
In business for yourself, never by yourself
Speaking of training, our conveniently-located Head Office in Coalville, Leicestershire boasts a Barista Training Programme, which our recently launched Castle Vale franchise partner called, “thorough and comprehensive”. There you will learn how to own and operate a successful mobile café, getting you trained and trading in just two weeks. And while your dedicated Franchise Development Manager maps a profitable route and runs the numbers through RAPoS, you can focus on serving a growing customer base, backed by a name people already trust. We also host a lively franchise partner discussion forum, where you can converse with other business owners, lending support and asking for advice. Because at Really Awesome Coffee, you may be in business for yourself, but you’re never in business by yourself.
Let’s talk numbers (franchise investment)
For under £10,000 (subject to status), we’ll get you and your branded van on the road with everything you need to run a successful mobile café, including a complete Trading Starter Kit worth £5,500. From there, the full franchise package is £22,950 +VAT. Most franchisees fund this through trusted finance providers we work with rather than paying upfront. Additional costs include a weekly management fee of £87 and the charges associated with running a coffee van, like stock and insurance. Importantly, our team is on-hand to help you through the process.
15 years of Really Awesome Coffee
In 2010, our Managing Director Kevin got behind the wheel of the first coffee van. Fifteen years on, that one van has grown into the UK’s largest mobile café franchise. Whether it’s our proven business model or bespoke-built vans that earned us the title, we’re more focused on what happens next. You, who could be the next mobile café owner on the road. And isn’t that just really awesome?
Come say hello!
Heading to The National Franchise Exhibition on 2 & 3 October at the NEC, Birmingham? Come and talk to us at our stand (LC40); just look out for our pink flags!
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