Starbucks to offer coffee breaks on the motorway

Starbucks coffee shops are to open at motorway service stations for the first time after the chain unveiled a tie-up with Welcome Break yesterday.

The first sites at Oxford Services on the M40 and Hopwood Park on the M42 will open before Easter, with the partnership expected to result in a total of 29 Coffee Primo shops being rebranded as Starbucks over the next 16 months.

Starbucks, which has more than 600 outlets in the UK, operates a drive-thru site in Cardiff but does not have any outlets at UK motorway service stations.

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Welcome Break, which caters for 80 million people a year at its 24 sites, also features the brands Waitrose, Burger King and Days Inn.

In August, it will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first site at Newport Pagnell on the M1.

Chief executive Rod McKie said: "This will complement the expansion of the Waitrose estate within Welcome Break and is part of a significant investment by the company."