Costa Coffee reopening: Over 300 stores now open for takeaway and drive thru services - customer rules explained and how to check if your local branch is open

Costa Coffee has announced that a total of more than 300 stores will be open for either takeaway, delivery and drive thru services.

Here’s what you need to know.

Which Costa Coffee shops are reopening?

Taking to Twitter, Costa announced: “We’re opening a further 97 stores today [28 May] including 58 Drive-Thru, and 39 trialling takeaway only, taking the total amount of stores open to 316.”

In an announcement, Costa stated: “Our store teams have responded well to our new ways of working, which has given us confidence that we can reopen more stores.”

You can see the full list of 316 Costa stores that have opened across the UK here.

Is it safe for Costa to reopen for takeaway?

Costa has also revealed new social distancing and hygiene measures at its reopened stores in order to keep workers and customers safe.

“To keep our store teams and customers safe, we’ve made a lot of changes to how we serve our coffee, introducing social distancing and enhancing our hygiene procedures,” the customer notice explained.

What are the new rules for customers?

For customers looking to get their caffeine fix from Costa, there are some new rules you should be aware of that are being implemented in store.

For takeaway orders, you’ll need to look out for and follow the floor signs that indicate safe, two metre distancing. These signs will be found both inside and outside of the store. You’ll be called up to the counter to order, one customer at a time, and a member of the team will greet you from behind a perspex screen. Your order will be then collected from the counter.

A hand sanitiser station has also been placed near every store entrance for customers to use.

Customers cannot sit in the cafes, and payments must be cashless and contactless.

For drive-thru orders, the lanes will be open as usual. To support social distancing, you’ll see that a new extendable shelf has been installed, which allows for baristas to pass you your order with no contact.

How to check if your local branch is open

To check if your local branch is opening for drive-thru or takeaway, you can use the Costa store locator tool.

You can let the tool use your current location to search for branches, or you can enter your location manually.

The Costa map will then show you all available Costa machines in supermarkets, express stores and drive-thru stores.

Which Costa branches are delivering?

Costa also has 14 stores available for delivery only via UberEats.

If you head onto the UberEats app or website and see Costa available, just tap on the cafe and you’ll be able to see the menu available for delivery.

You can order hot drinks, iced drinks and food items as well such as pasties and sandwiches.

Add your desired items to your basket, go to the check out and a delivery driver will contactlessly drop off your items.

These are the stores available for delivery:

- Avonmeads Retail Park, BS2 0SP

- Birmingham, Navigation Street, B2 4BS

- Edinburgh South Bridge, EH1 1HN

- Leeds Crown Point Retail Park, LS10 1ET

- Leicester, St George's Retail Park, LE1 1SG

- Manchester Oxford Road, M13 9BL

- Newcastle Gallowgate Wellbar, NE1 4TD

- Peckham Rye Lane, SE15 5EW

- Peterborough Brotherhood, PE4 6ZR

- Plymouth New George, PL1 1RJ

- Richmond, TW9 1DN

- Romford Pavillion, RM1 1AU

- Tooley Street, SE1 2RS

- Whitechapel, E1 7PU

Thank you to the NHS

As part of the process of reopening stores, Costa wants to keep supporting “everyone who’s keeping the country moving”.

Costa said: “Over the past week we have delivered another hundred thousand Ready-to-Drink Costa Coffee cans to key workers, providing a well deserved coffee break to those working in hospitals, police and fire stations and NHS call centres, to name a few.”