Thousands of Costa Coffee shops will be opening their doors by the end of June.
The retailer announced 1,100 of its 2,700 branches will reopen for takeaway and delivery customers within the next two weeks, after nearly three months of closure. Some shops in certain locations have already reopened.
Customers visiting the reopened Costas will be greeted with hand sanitiser stations, perspex screens at counters, and two-metre floor signs reminding them to social distance.
Baristas will only accept contactless car payments.
Drive-through lanes will also open and customers will pick up their orders through serving hatches to limit contact.
McDonald’s and Starbucks started reopening British stores in May, and sausage roll supplier Greggs is reopening around 800 stores for takeaway customers today.
Jill McDonald, chief executive of Costa Coffee, said she is “delighted” the outlets will reopen at the end of June.
She added that Costa Coffee has delivered more than 861,000 cans of coffee to key workers across the country since the start of lockdown.
