M&S cafe

Source: M&S

Tills have been fitted with screens and hot drinks will be served through a hatch for “contactless collection”

M&S is reopening its cafés, with 49 to serve takeaway hot drinks from tomorrow (14 May).

The 49 have been chosen because they are all next to Food Halls, so customers can grab a coffee to drink while they shop, M&S said. The takeaway hot drinks are all they will serve.

They include cafés branded Marketplace and Coffee to Go.

The move follows a trial at five locations including Maybrook retail park in Canterbury and a Coffee to Go on London’s High Street Kensington.

Social distancing measures had been put in place including Perspex screens at tills, M&S said in an update to customers. Only one member of staff would be on hand to both make drinks and take payment, and floor markings and signage would be in place encouraging shoppers to stay two metres apart.

Hot drinks and lids would be placed in a hatch at the bottom of the screen for “contactless collection”. Customers could then fit the lid themselves, M&S added.

The 49 locations are:

Anlaby

Ashbourne

Bankside (Marketplace)

Beverley

Bishop Auckland

Blackrock

Bluewater

Boucher Rd Belfast

Braehead

Braintree

Brent Cross (Marketplace)

Bridge of Don

Canary Wharf (Marketplace)

Central Falkirk

Cheshunt

Clapham (Coffee Bar)

Congleton Cramlington

Dunblane

Finsbury (Marketplace)

Handforth Dean Conservatory

Heathfield Ayr

Hedge End (Coffee Bar)

High St. Kensington (Coffee Bar)*

Inveralmond

Kingston (Marketplace)

Kingstown Park Carlisle

Manchester (Coffee Bar)

Marble Arch (Marketplace)

Martlesham Heath

Maybrook Canterbury*

Mayflower

Meadowhall Meole Brace Shrewsbury

Northallerton

One New Change (Marketplace)

Pantheon (Marketplace)*

Pontarddulais

Portfield Chichester

Sears Solihull

Stratford (Marketplace)

Summertown

Sweetbriar Norwich

Victoria Cardinal Place (Marketplace)*

Waterside (Marketplace)*

Westbridge Park Stone

Whitstable

Woodley

*Trial locations

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