Honestly a Sainsbury’s cafe absolutely saved me when my partner was in hospital after major surgery. It felt like a safe and comfortable place to go. Not even sure it’s there any more as I moved away but thanks to the Sainsbury’s Cafe in Deepdale, Preston!
Ex-sainsburys cafe employee here, most of the cafes in south east got closed down after covid. It was very strange when it was announced. Their reasoning was that it was no longer profitable… this was a couple months after it re-opened from covid. Still unsure who’s idea it was as they gave it hardly any time to get back up and running again. They started closing cafes down whilst everyone was still wearing masks, a lot of people were still scared to go outside. My cafe is still open but i unfortunately had to leave as I wasn’t being appreciated there! It was kind of like the manager knew we would be closing down soon so they gave up with helping us etc. turns out my cafe has around 6 months left until it closes down. Feel for all those people who lost their jobs from someone making a very bad decision as the cafes that did shut and moved over to Starbucks and costa have not been going so well!
I have seen the same here in Glasgow. almost everywhere has closed their cafe, or shrunk it the seating down to a third or a quarter. All the Sainsbury's I've been in have expanded their Argo area, and the one nearest me seems to have given over some space to the regular and Chop-chop delivery service, to store their carts or something I suppose. Which makes me think they didn't give the customers time to get back to cafe habits, but that they don't expect people will because so many more people just order for delivery. From what I recall, the cafe was mostly filled with older folks, which I wonder how much of that customer base is no longer shopping for themselves, or at all.
They closed our sainsburys cafe down and after it opened after the pandemic it was absolutely packed out with older customers ,they told us its fine we are getting a star bucks,we got a machine...😒 Feel so sorry for mainly the employees who lost their jobs and also the elderly who lost their place to socialize
It makes me so sad reading all of the comments about Sainsbury's cafes closing. I work at a Sainsbury's and I remember when they told us that they were closing ours. It was near the start of Covid so emotions were high. We all cried! Our cafe was a little hub for our elderly customers and was so much more than just a cafe. Terrible decision on Sainsbury's part I feel, only thinking about profits! Plus, I really miss the toasted fruit bread, it was so so delicious!
Would love a video where you have the same breakfast in each supermarket cafe. That's what I've been doing with my local cafes. You're not the only geek out there 😂
I live in north Wales and Asda and Tesco stores in my area have cafes! You need to add those two to the review! They definitely have the classic supermarket cafe vibes ☕️
Grace I feel your pain! Such a British staple and also so great for parents with young kids who need feeding. I love dunelm for their cafe it can be a bit hit or miss but their vegetarian paninis are quite nice and who doesn’t love a look round dunelm! *my first comment as a silent viewer :) thank you for being my comfort UA-camr xx
Im in west midlands and supermarket cafes have definitely had a resurgence.. I personally think its because of the offers for the kids. My asda cafe does £1 lunch box (drink, sandwich, snack and piece of fruit) every day not just school holidays and its incredibly popular!
Fully agree with the west midlands (and shropshire to my knowledge) having a strong supermarket café presence. I wondered whether it's partly down to the lesser competition from chains like Pret and Leon?
Used to take a 10 minute walk to the Tesco cafe with my mum on a Sunday for a fry up when I was in primary school. It’s the only time we had alone when dad was working weekends and a nice treat - such a nice memory. So sad to see these cafes disappear! Loved the video ☺️
Not quite a supermarket cafe, but close enough vibes - I have such fond memories of going to the woolworths cafe with my auntie when I was little, it was massive, it felt like a full on canteen. And she would always buy me those miniature cans of pop there, what a treat 😌
I loved this, I am a big fan of supermarket cafes, when im in the UK, I usually hang out at Tesco's supermarket cafe, which always did not disappoint😊 it did sadden me to hear the supermarket cafes are on the decline 😢
M&S is the underdog of the cafe world. I was in Oxford street at Christmas, impossible to find a seat in any Costa, Starbucks or Nero, then had a brainwave! M&S! Plenty of seats and had a cracking slice of cake and cup of tea ❤
Our local Sainsbury’s in the Midlands has had a Starbucks in place of its cafe for quite a while. I think I remember reading a while ago that they were restructuring and partnering with certain other big brands
As far as I’m aware Sainsbury’s plan was essentially to close all their own cafes, or at least the majority, and eventually put third party cafes in instead. I used to work at my local Sainsbury’s cafe until they closed ours last year. Not just the south east either we’re losing supermarket cafes in general and I’m in the north.
@@carlymurtagh2472 yeah that’s the plan for a lot of them I think. They can’t do it for a certain length of time after making colleagues redundant however so a lot will just be empty for a couple of years I expect.
❤ My mum works in a sainsburys cafe in North Devon, food is still delicious there 👍 also i had a yummy breakfast in Morrison's last week- very good value for money.
Love your videos grace...As a brit living in Portugal this is 100% the vibes from home I need!!!! Wishing you all the best for your upcoming nuptials :) x
Here in Northern Indiana (USA) Most supermarkets have something they call a Cafe but they don't compare to the ones in your video. Often the offerings are heated up from frozen, served on Styrofoam with plastic utensils and are literally a last resort before expiring from hunger. One partial exception is a regional chain, Martin's, which have "quick" food which they actually make, plus a Starbucks. I'm older than your generation and when I was a kid many stores, grocery and pharmacies in particular, had "lunch counters " with quick to make sandwiches, coffee, etc. I worked in a pharmacy with a lunch counter and that's where I tried, I honestly tried, to learn to like coffee. Nope. Never going to happen, and this from a fellow who grew up with parents who weren't even mobile until they had the second mug of coffee in their morning hands. 😢
Both of the Sainsburys in our area (midlands) have Starbucks now in place of a cafe so maybe that is the way they are going? I am surprised by the morrisons cafe, ours is great, however they didn't have hot drinks last time we went and my friends had to go into the store to the hot food counter to get their drinks.
As someone who works in a supermarket cafe, I think so many are shutting down because we have the lowest profit margins of all the departments in the whole store. Whereas clothing and home can take tens of thousands with only 4 staff to man the whole floor, and with electricity as the only outgoing, the cafe has to have lots of staff to cook, clean, serve, make coffee, do the till, etc. So already, for a department where the average customer spends less than in other departments, there’s more staff to pay. Add on to that the huge cost of the ovens, microwaves, coffee machines, industrial dishwashers, other water, and the fact that your stock can only last until the use by date and can’t be kept and just put on sale over and over, it means that even on a good week, your profit is normally way less than half of any of the other departments. It’s also the biggest hassle for management as there’s loads of hygiene and food safety requirements and assessments, and cafes tend to be open to worse reviews as customers go in expecting you to wait on them hand and foot, whereas just a smile can get a good review in other departments. My cafe is very busy all of the time and yet there’s often discussion about whether maintaining it is worth it.
I'm a store manager for Sainsburys in West Yorkshire and we have a Café 😮 must be a South East thing 🤔 Loved the video Grace, as always ❤ I'd say it's down to the current economic situation and people having less disposable income, but I'm just speculating here
It’s interesting because I’ve been seeing so many ads about how the supermarkets have got you covered for cheap meals with the kids because of the cost of living crisis!
I swear every Sainsbury’s that I go to that’s supposed to have a café has closed it down, I wonder why tbh because they’re still very popular in Europe.
From a former sainsburys cafe employee, we were told that most of the cafes will be closing in the south east and being moved over to food chains. Not really sure why though as pre-covid, the cafes were so so busy!!
Really interesting video! Yes, I'd like to see you reviewing the same breakfast in each supermarket! I feel like you might have better luck at Tesco or Asda! :)
Loved this! From working in Morrisons in the past, the ‘brew bar’ / barista bar part is just the place to get a coffee & snacks (it’s separate from the actual Morrisons cafe in most stores). Maybe you missed the cafe? X
Funnily enough, the Sainsbury's in my town recently opened a food court featuring Harry Ramsden's and Slim Chickens and a few other chain restaurants. Definitely came out of leftfield and I certainly wouldn't have expected them to do so - especially given how there's dozens of fast food places practically on their doorstep.
Having to work in one of these types of cafes (department chain store, not supermarket) your description of them being stuck in time is soooooo real lmao 😭 also idk if it’s the same for supermarkets but there were loads of rumours that ours was gonna close bc of covid. The operational costs are too high, training is too much and the management rather would outsource to like Costa/Starbucks instead. Sadly ours stayed open lmao
The cafes in Sainsburys have closed. I work in one that I would say is 20-25mins from you (ish) and we have replace the cafe with branded restaurants. So Slim Chickens, Harry Ramsdens etc xx
Thanks to another great upload by Grace, feeling a tad inspired to visit at least one supermarket cafe. Don't even think I've ever visited one, if I have, it is... possibility many 'moons ago.
Grocery store cafes were some of my most eagerly anticipated destinations when I first visited the UK in '93. I never knew they existed before then and couldn't get enough of them! (Nothing like that in the US, save for Whole Foods and maybe some specialty shops.)
If you are in Eastern Massachusetts, the wonderful Market Basket does have cafes. Going to Market Basket is always an adventure, and one you can feel really good about (see the Wikipedia article Market Basket (New England) if you want to know why). They don't do meals, tho, just pastries and ice cream and coffee, but I think you can buy stuff from their prepared foods and eat them in the cafe... It's not M&S, but...
I have some weird memories of the BHS cafe in Bromley. My mum used to take me there all the time for their breakfast and it was great! But why was the room SO BIG (I don't know if it was just because I was small). Also the corridor to get to the toilets on that floor terrified me!
Maybe it's cost of living? I don't think alot of the cafés reopened post covid. I think supermarket food is so expensive now people just aren't staying for a coffee ( I very rarely did anyway) Sainsbury's has reduced their free parking to 2 hours so you wouldn't have enough time to shop and have lunch.
My 2 local sainsburys in south wales are thriving!! They’ve refurbished and rebranded it as a restaurant hub rather than a sainsburys cafe and serve food from Ed’s Easy Diner, Carluccios and Harry Ramsdens! Nice but not authentic I miss that traditional sainsbirys cafe feel 😢
Morrisons near me is definitely the busiest supermarket cafe! I hardly ever see anyone in asda or tesco cafes. One of the tesco 20 mins away from me has a Costa in it and seems to always be busy though! My local sainsburys cafe has shut down! I’m in Scotland btw x
In South Africa grocery stores also had restaurants when I was younger but now they have been replaced by the popular takeaway coffee & deli/treat kiosk.
I live in Portugal and we have some decent supermarket cafes here, usually Continente, Pingo Doce and Apolonia (which is like Portuguese Waitrose, fancy and expensive!). There are normal cafes everywhere too so a lot to choose from 🙂
Seeing the M&S cafe in The Glades gave me whiplash, never expect to see local places popping up in UA-cam videos. Always a welcome surprise, pointing it out like SpongeBob in the episode with the Krusty Krab advert.
I`m in the South and alot has changed in the past year.Our Sainsburys first lost all their pharmacies ,then ,one by one ,the cafes.To be brutally honest i`m not surprised at the cafe closures ,as they were lacking badly in both what they had on offer ,and the quality of it. Tea and coffees just hot water and a spoonful of coffee or a tea bag shoved in a cup. Tea spoons for both shared and dirty.No sweetners for those who don`t like/can`t have ,sugar and generally pretty unhygenic too.Our nearest M&S has a small cafe ,offering very little in the way of food ,and is expensive also.Wouldn`t go out of my way tbh. I think i`d have to opt for Tesco ,who have a Costa and a decent variety of both food and drink.
Grace you need to come back to the states and come to Texas! We have H‑E‑B and it’s one of the best grocery stores ever! They just opened a 4 story one in Austin that has a 2 story bbq restaurant.
Absolutely gutted also! I love cafes, full stop, and have used one Waittose cafe on the regular in the past. Hey, why not Tesco's? I think they all have Costa Coffees inside them but it's still a supermarket cafe. I've had many a good time in different locations. Xxx
I’m in Yorkshire and we have all the supermarket cafes except the Asda near me closed around Covid time. I don’t rate Sainsbury’s but M&S,Morrison’s ,Tesco and Waitrose are always busy. I think Morrison’s is probably best value and has a lovely vibe if you happen to catch their Age Concern morning with a lovely cornet player doing show tunes-so good.
In the Highlands I stay in we have a cafe in Asda a cafe in Morrisons ( Love it ) a cafe in Tesco and Marks and Spencer’s supermarket cafes are still a thing up here but we don’t have Waitrose or Sainsburys
We still have them in the Midlands. Our local Morrisons just go updated and is now food court style with multiple options. We have Asda and Tescos cafes too.
😢 Feeling sad for you Grace, we in the usa where I live no longer have the supermarket cafe's nor the stores that had them. First Tops moved away, then the P and C closed. I don't travel far from where I live, no car and set income at 66 years of age. Kind puts a cybash on fun things to do. My town thinks walking the two bridges is a tourist attraction and the little spring fed lake looks like pea soup because it's so polluted. And even wild life either dies or stays away. A dog swam there a few years back, and died shortly afterwards. It's run off from farms that make the water bad. And they try to fix it but it always fails. Sad to say .... life holds many disappointments.
There was a really nice Budgens cafe in Hawkhurst. Aren't there any elsewhere? Also Jempsons have cafes. Jempsons are the best supermarkets! Worth a visit if you get the chance! 😊
they did close down all the sainsburys cafes nationwide :((( my mum used to work in one, it's so sad!! apparently they're planning to open mini food courts where they used to be with starbucks and an italian chain
Oh my gosh! You were in my childhood town! I didn’t realise that you lived so close to where I grew up. My inner teen is screaming the fact I wasn’t there when you were! Xx
The store finders on the supermarket websites usually tell you what facilities they have, including a café. So you could've looked at that first to save yourself the wasted journeys. I think a lot of the cafés shut during the pandemic and then just never reopened.
Our Sainsbury's café in the South East closed down too, the only supermarket café left near me is Tesco - or the Asda has a McDonald's but that doesn't count 😂
Weirdly enough, supermarket cafes are still pretty popular in Buffalo, NY. Like if you go to a local supermarket cafe in the early morning or on the weekends, they're pretty busy.
I currently work in a Morrisons cafe! The cafes are all still open it’s the brew bars that have been closed down in a lot of stores! So you may have just gone to a store that doesn’t have a cafe but they are definitely still a thing!!
Grace!! I'm from Germany and traveling to London tomorrow. So I have one question and one question only: what are these favourite olives from Tesco? I really want to try them!!❤🌻
I wonder if part of the problem is less footfall in supermarkets. A lot of us order groceries for delivery now. Less footfall = fewer people popping into the supermarket cafe. Perhaps.
Loved this video! ❤ This is so interesting to see, because we don’t have cafes in supermarket here in the Netherlands. Supermarkets are quite small actually compared to some other European countries 😢
I'd love to see you review Garden Centre coffee shops, because that's a tradition that lots of people get caught up in.
I thought this as I was watching too!
I work at a garden centre cafe and it’s also sooo busy not like these supermarket cafes
Honestly a Sainsbury’s cafe absolutely saved me when my partner was in hospital after major surgery. It felt like a safe and comfortable place to go. Not even sure it’s there any more as I moved away but thanks to the Sainsbury’s Cafe in Deepdale, Preston!
Ahhh Deepdale sainsburys brings back memories of when I went to Uclan uni, miss them days and that store and the huge asda 😭
The m&s cafe in Bromley is the absolute best 10/10
That Sainsbury's is still there
@@soniat6750I’m so sorry you had to go there
@@MynameisTMP- 😂😂😂it wasn't thaaat bad
Ex-sainsburys cafe employee here, most of the cafes in south east got closed down after covid. It was very strange when it was announced. Their reasoning was that it was no longer profitable… this was a couple months after it re-opened from covid. Still unsure who’s idea it was as they gave it hardly any time to get back up and running again. They started closing cafes down whilst everyone was still wearing masks, a lot of people were still scared to go outside. My cafe is still open but i unfortunately had to leave as I wasn’t being appreciated there! It was kind of like the manager knew we would be closing down soon so they gave up with helping us etc. turns out my cafe has around 6 months left until it closes down. Feel for all those people who lost their jobs from someone making a very bad decision as the cafes that did shut and moved over to Starbucks and costa have not been going so well!
I have seen the same here in Glasgow. almost everywhere has closed their cafe, or shrunk it the seating down to a third or a quarter. All the Sainsbury's I've been in have expanded their Argo area, and the one nearest me seems to have given over some space to the regular and Chop-chop delivery service, to store their carts or something I suppose. Which makes me think they didn't give the customers time to get back to cafe habits, but that they don't expect people will because so many more people just order for delivery. From what I recall, the cafe was mostly filled with older folks, which I wonder how much of that customer base is no longer shopping for themselves, or at all.
They closed our sainsburys cafe down and after it opened after the pandemic it was absolutely packed out with older customers ,they told us its fine we are getting a star bucks,we got a machine...😒
Feel so sorry for mainly the employees who lost their jobs and also the elderly who lost their place to socialize
It makes me so sad reading all of the comments about Sainsbury's cafes closing. I work at a Sainsbury's and I remember when they told us that they were closing ours. It was near the start of Covid so emotions were high. We all cried! Our cafe was a little hub for our elderly customers and was so much more than just a cafe. Terrible decision on Sainsbury's part I feel, only thinking about profits! Plus, I really miss the toasted fruit bread, it was so so delicious!
Also some cafes are going out of business as well and some have already gone out of business.
I feel like they're closed down their cafes to make space for Argos in-store. My local has anyway.
Would love a video where you have the same breakfast in each supermarket cafe. That's what I've been doing with my local cafes. You're not the only geek out there 😂
Love this idea!
great idea
Yessss! I’ve been doing this with coffee on my university campus 😂
Knowing this is comforting. 🤍
I live in north Wales and Asda and Tesco stores in my area have cafes! You need to add those two to the review! They definitely have the classic supermarket cafe vibes ☕️
This is the video no one asked for but we all needed ❤❤❤
EXACTLY what I was thinking lol
Typical grackle w
Grace I feel your pain! Such a British staple and also so great for parents with young kids who need feeding. I love dunelm for their cafe it can be a bit hit or miss but their vegetarian paninis are quite nice and who doesn’t love a look round dunelm! *my first comment as a silent viewer :) thank you for being my comfort UA-camr xx
Im in west midlands and supermarket cafes have definitely had a resurgence.. I personally think its because of the offers for the kids. My asda cafe does £1 lunch box (drink, sandwich, snack and piece of fruit) every day not just school holidays and its incredibly popular!
Fully agree with the west midlands (and shropshire to my knowledge) having a strong supermarket café presence. I wondered whether it's partly down to the lesser competition from chains like Pret and Leon?
Used to take a 10 minute walk to the Tesco cafe with my mum on a Sunday for a fry up when I was in primary school. It’s the only time we had alone when dad was working weekends and a nice treat - such a nice memory. So sad to see these cafes disappear! Loved the video ☺️
That childhood memory made me smile :) thank you
Not quite a supermarket cafe, but close enough vibes - I have such fond memories of going to the woolworths cafe with my auntie when I was little, it was massive, it felt like a full on canteen. And she would always buy me those miniature cans of pop there, what a treat 😌
I loved this, I am a big fan of supermarket cafes, when im in the UK, I usually hang out at Tesco's supermarket cafe, which always did not disappoint😊 it did sadden me to hear the supermarket cafes are on the decline 😢
M&S is the underdog of the cafe world. I was in Oxford street at Christmas, impossible to find a seat in any Costa, Starbucks or Nero, then had a brainwave! M&S! Plenty of seats and had a cracking slice of cake and cup of tea ❤
your my kinda person grace: one that gets excited over trying supermarket cafes ❤❤
Our local Sainsbury’s in the Midlands has had a Starbucks in place of its cafe for quite a while. I think I remember reading a while ago that they were restructuring and partnering with certain other big brands
As far as I’m aware Sainsbury’s plan was essentially to close all their own cafes, or at least the majority, and eventually put third party cafes in instead. I used to work at my local Sainsbury’s cafe until they closed ours last year. Not just the south east either we’re losing supermarket cafes in general and I’m in the north.
All the ones in my area are now a star bucks instead of a sainsburys cafe 😖😢😖
@@carlymurtagh2472 yeah that’s the plan for a lot of them I think. They can’t do it for a certain length of time after making colleagues redundant however so a lot will just be empty for a couple of years I expect.
❤ My mum works in a sainsburys cafe in North Devon, food is still delicious there 👍 also i had a yummy breakfast in Morrison's last week- very good value for money.
Long live Barnstaple Sainsbury’s 😂
Love your videos grace...As a brit living in Portugal this is 100% the vibes from home I need!!!! Wishing you all the best for your upcoming nuptials :) x
I would LOVE a podcast ep with you and Mikes Mic 😭😭 The vibes would be IMMACULATE
Asda? Tesco? How could you miss these?! We need a part 2...
Here in Northern Indiana (USA) Most supermarkets have something they call a Cafe but they don't compare to the ones in your video. Often the offerings are heated up from frozen, served on Styrofoam with plastic utensils and are literally a last resort before expiring from hunger. One partial exception is a regional chain, Martin's, which have "quick" food which they actually make, plus a Starbucks. I'm older than your generation and when I was a kid many stores, grocery and pharmacies in particular, had "lunch counters " with quick to make sandwiches, coffee, etc. I worked in a pharmacy with a lunch counter and that's where I tried, I honestly tried, to learn to like coffee. Nope. Never going to happen, and this from a fellow who grew up with parents who weren't even mobile until they had the second mug of coffee in their morning hands. 😢
Both of the Sainsburys in our area (midlands) have Starbucks now in place of a cafe so maybe that is the way they are going? I am surprised by the morrisons cafe, ours is great, however they didn't have hot drinks last time we went and my friends had to go into the store to the hot food counter to get their drinks.
Yeah my local sainsburys in Manchester has changed their cafe to a restaurant hub, which has slim chickens, GBK, and carluccios!
As someone who works in a supermarket cafe, I think so many are shutting down because we have the lowest profit margins of all the departments in the whole store. Whereas clothing and home can take tens of thousands with only 4 staff to man the whole floor, and with electricity as the only outgoing, the cafe has to have lots of staff to cook, clean, serve, make coffee, do the till, etc. So already, for a department where the average customer spends less than in other departments, there’s more staff to pay. Add on to that the huge cost of the ovens, microwaves, coffee machines, industrial dishwashers, other water, and the fact that your stock can only last until the use by date and can’t be kept and just put on sale over and over, it means that even on a good week, your profit is normally way less than half of any of the other departments. It’s also the biggest hassle for management as there’s loads of hygiene and food safety requirements and assessments, and cafes tend to be open to worse reviews as customers go in expecting you to wait on them hand and foot, whereas just a smile can get a good review in other departments. My cafe is very busy all of the time and yet there’s often discussion about whether maintaining it is worth it.
you should absolutely come up north and re-film this video, we have cafés in almost all of our supermarkets!!
I'm a store manager for Sainsburys in West Yorkshire and we have a Café 😮 must be a South East thing 🤔 Loved the video Grace, as always ❤ I'd say it's down to the current economic situation and people having less disposable income, but I'm just speculating here
There’s around 8 cafes left in south east I believe! They closed a bunch down last year and moved them over to food chains.
Definitely not a south east thing. They’ve closed the majority of the cafes country wide.
@@womblemonkey that's really sad. Used to love a cafe breakfast. Most supermarkets around here still have them, so we're lucky
@@ellephi2583 you are lucky indeed! I think our asda still has a cafe and M&S. that’s about it here! 😞
It’s interesting because I’ve been seeing so many ads about how the supermarkets have got you covered for cheap meals with the kids because of the cost of living crisis!
I swear every Sainsbury’s that I go to that’s supposed to have a café has closed it down, I wonder why tbh because they’re still very popular in Europe.
From a former sainsburys cafe employee, we were told that most of the cafes will be closing in the south east and being moved over to food chains. Not really sure why though as pre-covid, the cafes were so so busy!!
Really interesting video! Yes, I'd like to see you reviewing the same breakfast in each supermarket! I feel like you might have better luck at Tesco or Asda! :)
Loved this! From working in Morrisons in the past, the ‘brew bar’ / barista bar part is just the place to get a coffee & snacks (it’s separate from the actual Morrisons cafe in most stores). Maybe you missed the cafe? X
Funnily enough, the Sainsbury's in my town recently opened a food court featuring Harry Ramsden's and Slim Chickens and a few other chain restaurants. Definitely came out of leftfield and I certainly wouldn't have expected them to do so - especially given how there's dozens of fast food places practically on their doorstep.
Same! My local Sainsbury's cafe is massive!
Same - can't beat Selly Oak Sainbury's
Having to work in one of these types of cafes (department chain store, not supermarket) your description of them being stuck in time is soooooo real lmao 😭 also idk if it’s the same for supermarkets but there were loads of rumours that ours was gonna close bc of covid. The operational costs are too high, training is too much and the management rather would outsource to like Costa/Starbucks instead. Sadly ours stayed open lmao
The cafes in Sainsburys have closed. I work in one that I would say is 20-25mins from you (ish) and we have replace the cafe with branded restaurants. So Slim Chickens, Harry Ramsdens etc xx
Thanks to another great upload by Grace, feeling a tad inspired to visit at least one supermarket cafe. Don't even think I've ever visited one, if I have, it is... possibility many 'moons ago.
Grocery store cafes were some of my most eagerly anticipated destinations when I first visited the UK in '93. I never knew they existed before then and couldn't get enough of them! (Nothing like that in the US, save for Whole Foods and maybe some specialty shops.)
If you are in Eastern Massachusetts, the wonderful Market Basket does have cafes. Going to Market Basket is always an adventure, and one you can feel really good about (see the Wikipedia article Market Basket (New England) if you want to know why). They don't do meals, tho, just pastries and ice cream and coffee, but I think you can buy stuff from their prepared foods and eat them in the cafe... It's not M&S, but...
I have some weird memories of the BHS cafe in Bromley. My mum used to take me there all the time for their breakfast and it was great! But why was the room SO BIG (I don't know if it was just because I was small). Also the corridor to get to the toilets on that floor terrified me!
BHS breakfasts are a key memory with my mum too! ❤
An all day breakfast at Sainsburys cafe was my treat growing up 🥰
omg the Tesco & Asda kids lunch boxes were the absolute highlight of any shopping trip as a kid, I hope they still do them🥺
Maybe it's cost of living? I don't think alot of the cafés reopened post covid. I think supermarket food is so expensive now people just aren't staying for a coffee ( I very rarely did anyway) Sainsbury's has reduced their free parking to 2 hours so you wouldn't have enough time to shop and have lunch.
My 2 local sainsburys in south wales are thriving!! They’ve refurbished and rebranded it as a restaurant hub rather than a sainsburys cafe and serve food from Ed’s Easy Diner, Carluccios and Harry Ramsdens! Nice but not authentic I miss that traditional sainsbirys cafe feel 😢
This is the sort of hard hitting journalism I live for!
Grace, you're a top gal, but this video was an unmitigated disaster 😂
You are such a burst of positive energie can't enough watching
Morrisons near me is definitely the busiest supermarket cafe! I hardly ever see anyone in asda or tesco cafes. One of the tesco 20 mins away from me has a Costa in it and seems to always be busy though! My local sainsburys cafe has shut down! I’m in Scotland btw x
My local Sainsbury’s have just opened their café which is rather surprising for being from the Welsh valleys.
All the Sainsbury’s by me changed their cafes to a Starbucks!
Me too!
Also, if you’re in the south east, try Westwood cross in Thanet, they’ve 100% got a Sainsbury’s cafe and Tesco cafe
Grace!! if you have time, TK max has a wild amount of snacks that must! be reviewed
M&S always comes throughhhhhhh.. the one near me has such a wonderful vibe, I love it
In South Africa grocery stores also had restaurants when I was younger but now they have been replaced by the popular takeaway coffee & deli/treat kiosk.
I live in Portugal and we have some decent supermarket cafes here, usually Continente, Pingo Doce and Apolonia (which is like Portuguese Waitrose, fancy and expensive!). There are normal cafes everywhere too so a lot to choose from 🙂
I went to the algarve in April and Pingo Doce was amazing, so inexpensive and delicious bakery items😊
Seeing the M&S cafe in The Glades gave me whiplash, never expect to see local places popping up in UA-cam videos. Always a welcome surprise, pointing it out like SpongeBob in the episode with the Krusty Krab advert.
The Sainsbury’s cafe near me turned into a HUGE Starbucks 😂
They put fast food outlets where the cafe used to be in the Sainsbury’s near me. Never looks busy
I`m in the South and alot has changed in the past year.Our Sainsburys first lost all their pharmacies ,then ,one by one ,the cafes.To be brutally honest i`m not surprised at the cafe closures ,as they were lacking badly in both what they had on offer ,and the quality of it. Tea and coffees just hot water and a spoonful of coffee or a tea bag shoved in a cup. Tea spoons for both shared and dirty.No sweetners for those who don`t like/can`t have ,sugar and generally pretty unhygenic too.Our nearest M&S has a small cafe ,offering very little in the way of food ,and is expensive also.Wouldn`t go out of my way tbh. I think i`d have to opt for Tesco ,who have a Costa and a decent variety of both food and drink.
Grace you need to come back to the states and come to Texas! We have H‑E‑B and it’s one of the best grocery stores ever! They just opened a 4 story one in Austin that has a 2 story bbq restaurant.
Absolutely gutted also! I love cafes, full stop, and have used one Waittose cafe on the regular in the past.
Hey, why not Tesco's? I think they all have Costa Coffees inside them but it's still a supermarket cafe. I've had many a good time in different locations. Xxx
You should review all the common hotel breakfasts!
M&S cafes are 100% my favourite supermarket cafe, especially at Christmas!
I’m in Yorkshire and we have all the supermarket cafes except the Asda near me closed around Covid time. I don’t rate Sainsbury’s but M&S,Morrison’s ,Tesco and Waitrose are always busy. I think Morrison’s is probably best value and has a lovely vibe if you happen to catch their Age Concern morning with a lovely cornet player doing show tunes-so good.
In the Highlands I stay in we have a cafe in Asda a cafe in Morrisons ( Love it ) a cafe in Tesco and Marks and Spencer’s supermarket cafes are still a thing up here but we don’t have Waitrose or Sainsburys
We still have them in the Midlands. Our local Morrisons just go updated and is now food court style with multiple options. We have Asda and Tescos cafes too.
😢 Feeling sad for you Grace, we in the usa where I live no longer have the supermarket cafe's nor the stores that had them. First Tops moved away, then the P and C closed. I don't travel far from where I live, no car and set income at 66 years of age. Kind puts a cybash on fun things to do. My town thinks walking the two bridges is a tourist attraction and the little spring fed lake looks like pea soup because it's so polluted. And even wild life either dies or stays away. A dog swam there a few years back, and died shortly afterwards. It's run off from farms that make the water bad. And they try to fix it but it always fails. Sad to say .... life holds many disappointments.
There was a really nice Budgens cafe in Hawkhurst. Aren't there any elsewhere?
Also Jempsons have cafes. Jempsons are the best supermarkets! Worth a visit if you get the chance! 😊
they did close down all the sainsburys cafes nationwide :((( my mum used to work in one, it's so sad!! apparently they're planning to open mini food courts where they used to be with starbucks and an italian chain
Yeah my local one has a Starbucks now!
I worked in the brew bar in Morrisons and they closed 65 of them end of April but ours still has a main cafe.
My Sainsbury’s cafe has shut but it has now changed to like a mini food court where you get slims chicken and harry ramsdon and something else
There is a good Sainsbury's cafe in Sydenham in South east London. Has Ed's dinner, honest burger and Harry ramstons with in it!
Up north here in Yorkshire, every single supermarket by me still has a cafe 🫣
In Scotland Sainsbury's cafe's are now Starbucks. Supermarkets were not making enough money in the cafe's so have outsourced them to other companies x
Come to Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, just down the M2 from Bluewater. New Sainsburys cafe and new M&S cafe with McDonald’s style ordering. Xx
I’m pretty sure if M&S food PR saw this, they would be raging you wasn’t allowed to film! They are so pro filming, sounds you got a Karen!
Oh my gosh! You were in my childhood town! I didn’t realise that you lived so close to where I grew up. My inner teen is screaming the fact I wasn’t there when you were! Xx
Come to Maidstone there’s sainsburys cafe in the Aylesford branch and an M&S down the road from it lol and a Morrisons cafe in Maidstone too x
Some Wilko shops have cafés! I often wonder what they're like. The one here in Newcastle has one but it constantly seems empty.
Hannah Marling did a video like this 2 years ago! (her nan is the best)
It's the same here in the US, a lot of supermarket cafes closed for pandemic and a lot didn't reopen or they scaled way down....
The store finders on the supermarket websites usually tell you what facilities they have, including a café. So you could've looked at that first to save yourself the wasted journeys.
I think a lot of the cafés shut during the pandemic and then just never reopened.
I had the same thing happen to me with sainsburys!! I walked there and was so disappointed when I found out!
I live in the midlands and within 10 minute drive I have an Asda, sainsburys, Morrisons and Tesco cafe x
lots of sainsburys cafes have shut but loads reopening with several eateries in ours has coffee place harry ramsdens and gourmet burger
Me watching this as I’m getting ready for my shift in Morrisons cafe 🫠
Our Sainsbury's café in the South East closed down too, the only supermarket café left near me is Tesco - or the Asda has a McDonald's but that doesn't count 😂
Honestly I’d never realised until this video how many supermarket cafés near me have shut down now. I think there used to be 8, now we have 1 😂
Weirdly enough, supermarket cafes are still pretty popular in Buffalo, NY. Like if you go to a local supermarket cafe in the early morning or on the weekends, they're pretty busy.
I love tesco and Morrisons cafe. Xx
I currently work in a Morrisons cafe! The cafes are all still open it’s the brew bars that have been closed down in a lot of stores! So you may have just gone to a store that doesn’t have a cafe but they are definitely still a thing!!
Grace!! I'm from Germany and traveling to London tomorrow. So I have one question and one question only: what are these favourite olives from Tesco? I really want to try them!!❤🌻
"There were no vibes. None! Cos it wasnt event THEEERE!" is my new favorite way to say I dislike something.
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I wonder if part of the problem is less footfall in supermarkets. A lot of us order groceries for delivery now. Less footfall = fewer people popping into the supermarket cafe. Perhaps.
Not surprised Grace watches Mike, they give off kinda similar vibes😂
Sainsbury’s near me has a eds diner, harry ramsdens and many more
My local Sainsbury's cafe has turned into a Starbucks
My local Sainsbury’s has a Starbucks attached now- weird choice I think!
My grandad used to take me to Sainsbury’s cafe after my orthodontist appointments. It was great
they are DEFFO still a thing up north, my local morrisons, asda and M&S all have cafes :)
Sainsbury by me have opened a cafe again but it’s Harry ramstons fish’s and chips & caluccios in it too
Fun video… and what a great explanation of how it feels in them 😂
Basingstoke still has supermarket cafes in every supermarket except Tesco
Ooo yes Grace this is right up my street! Can’t wait to watch
i live in scotland, just outside glasgow and all of the sainsburys cafes are gone too.
Loved this video! ❤ This is so interesting to see, because we don’t have cafes in supermarket here in the Netherlands. Supermarkets are quite small actually compared to some other European countries 😢
I’m from Lincoln and the cafe is still open in mine thankfully xxx