Costa Co ee now serving M&S Food.

Costa Coff ee now serving M&S Food

Costa Coff ee has revealed a tasty new range of breakfast, lunch, snacks and treats, courtesy of a unique food collaboration with M&S Food.

Launched on Thursday 3 March, the new menu complements Costa Coff ee’s perfectly crafted coff ee, drinks and food favourites and is described as “like your two best friends getting married” and is a UK fi rst for both retailers. Costa Coff ee Now Serving M&S Food, features 33 much loved M&S Food classics, ranging from porridge, sandwiches and salads, to iconic sweet treats such as Yumnuts™ and everyone’s favourite – Percy Pigs™.

Available across England, Scotland and Wales, from over 2,500 Costa Coff ee stores and Click & Collect, the Costa Coff ee Now Serving M&S Food menu builds on Costa Coff ee’s own food off ering and provides customers with an even greater range of quality, great value food across breakfast, lunch, and break-time occasions. The new menu sits alongside its famous Mocha Italia Signature blend, which when created over 50 years ago by the Costa brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, took 112 attempts to perfect and is still a closely guarded secret.

Suitable for all dietary choices, it also features food from M&S Food’s Plant Kitchen, Taste Buds, Eat Well and Made Without brands.

For breakfast and snacks, the range includes M&S Bircher Muesli (Vegetarian), M&S Porridge with Berry Compote (Vegetarian) and M&S Crunchy Green Apple with Peanut Butter (Vegan). Hot and cold lunch options feature M&S BLT Sandwich, M&S Prawn Mayonnaise Sandwich and M&S Chicken, Tomato & Basil Pasta Salad. Sweet treats include M&S Billionaire’s Yumnut™ (Vegetarian) and M&S Percy Pigs™ (Vegetarian) and for kids, there is M&S Taste Buds Cheesy Pizza (Vegetarian), M&S Taste Buds Cheese Sandwich (Vegetarian) and M&S Taste Buds Ham Sandwich.

In addition to M&S Food, Costa Coff ee is also adding its own range of delicious new food items to the menu, including its new Vegan Burrito Meal Box, made with a mix of rice, vegan meat-free chilli sauce, mixed beans and roasted red peppers, all enclosed in a soft tortilla wrap that is topped with fajita sauce, vegan cheeze and jalapenos. And for a limited time until 5 May, the British Bacon Mac & Cheese Bloomer Toastie, which combines Mac & Cheese and British Maple Cured Smoked Bacon in a cheese and parsley crumb topping on malted bloomer bread will be available.

The M&S Food collaboration is part of Costa Coff ee’s ambition to become the fi rst choice for customers buying food and coff ee on the go. Signifi cant investments are being made in food that is in addition to the M&S Food range, including product innovation in own range and refreshed store environments. This investment also coincides with the relaunch of the Costa Club customer loyalty programme last year, aimed at giving members even more rewards.

Adrian Cook, UK & Ireland chief operating offi cer of Costa Coff ee, said: “The launch of the Costa Coff ee Now Serving M&S Food menu is an exciting fi rst step in our collaboration with M&S Food. As we look to continue crafting new coff ee-experiences, we are building a new food off ering that will provide an even greater range of quality and great value food for all customers – making Costa Coff ee the fi rst choice for customers on-the-go.

“The collaboration launches with iconic M&S Food and we’ve exciting plans ahead, using our joint expertise to develop better food and drink experiences for customers to enjoy throughout the day, alongside their favourite Costa coff ee.”

Stuart Machin, chief operating offi cer and M&S food managing director, added: “M&S Food is famous for great quality food on the go at fantastic value and even more customers will be able to enjoy our wide range of delicious sandwiches, salads and snacks in over 2,500 locations across the UK - not just on the high street but in neighbourhood locations and retail parks.

“Bringing together delicious, great quality M&S Food and the nation’s largest chain of coff ee shops is great for customers as it extends our reach and supports our strategy of making M&S more relevant, more often for families.”

The M&S Food range will also be available as part of Costa Coff ee’s ongoing partnership with the anti-food waste app, Too Good To Go, which allows people to buy and collect unsold food from going to waste. In 2018, Costa Coff ee became the fi rst large-scale UK coff ee chain to partner with Too Good To Go and since then has seen almost 630,000 Magic Bags, as they are known, collected across stores.