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Being able to offer high quality products at a reasonable price in a friendly atmosphere helps us serve the kind of affordable luxuries that customers want and allows us to deliver a truly unique café experience that’s often copied, but never equalled.

You can find out more about us and our concept by using the menu on this page. We will also share with you our BB’s Coffee & Muffins cafés philosophy for success and what types of retail environments we design and build to further promote our business and build awareness for our brand.

history

At BB’s Coffee & Muffins we provide the foundations that enable entrepreneurs to build a healthy business in a controlled, measured and proven way. Here are just a few of the milestones from the BB’s story.

History of BB’s Coffee & Muffins

1975
The first BB’s Coffee & Muffins café opens in Australia

1996
Phil Abbott brings the BB’s Coffee & Muffins concept to the UK

1997
First company café opens in Maidenhead

1997
First franchised café opens in Blackburn

1997
First café to stock New Zealand Natural opens in Bury

1999
BB’s Coffee & Mufins Café opens in Bluewater Shopping Centre

1999
First BB’s café in Ireland opens up at Liffey Valley

2002
European exclusivity deal is reached

2002
First BB’s café in Scotland opens at the Forge Shopping Centre, Glasgow

2004
First BB’s coffee cart opens in Dagenham

2004
Injection of capital from Irish investors leads to accelerated store opening programme

2005
BB’s opens its 100th café

2005
Contract awarded to BB’s Coffee & Muffins to open two fixed units and six coffee carts in October in National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham

2005
BB's first high street store opens in Ireland

2006
BB's first UK high street store opens in Feltham and BB's opens 25 new stores

 

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