Transforming our stores  

 

 
 
  The “coffee shop”, serving an indifferent range of cooked food and soft drinks for consumption in a nondescript environment, has long been a standard feature of superstores in the UK. At the end of March Safeway broke with this tradition by launching Café Fresco, an in-store restaurant offering top quality fresh food cooked on site.  
       
    Café Fresco features a Mediterranean-style menu, offering fresh juices, freshly-brewed espresso and cappuccino, and main courses such as grilled salmon or lobster, fresh pasta and pizza. All the food is prepared to order and cooked in front of our customers by experienced chefs.

The restaurant has a Mediterranean look, with ceramic and wooden floors and wooden raffia chairs. It is licensed and is open from 8.00am to 10.00pm, even when the store is closed.

The first Café Fresco opened in our High Wycombe store at the end of March and the second in our new superstore at Woking. Others will be opened in selected stores during the year.
 
   
     
Top, diners can choose from a mouth-watering menu of freshly made pasta and sauces at Café Fresco.

Left, our first Café Fresco at High Wycombe has transformed the in-store eating experience for our customers.

Right, Stacey Holloway, pizza chef and Richard Mundy, development chef, prepare freshly cooked pizza in an authentic stonebake oven – the centrepiece of our Café Fresco restaurant.
 
 
       
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