Boston Tea Party (café chain)

Boston Tea Party is a British family-owned independent café group headquartered at its first café in Park Street, Bristol, which opened in 1995. The business has 22 cafés, predominantly in South West England.[1][2] Each location adopts a unique interior design and the company emphasises the ethical sourcing of local produce.[3]

Boston Tea Party
TypePrivate limited company
IndustryCafé
Founded1995 (1995) in Bristol, England
Headquarters75 Park Street,
Bristol
,
England
Key people
Sam Roberts (CEO)
ProductsCoffee beverages, tea, smoothies, ales, cooked meals, sandwiches

Charity

In 2011, the company created a partnership with Coffee Kids, a charity which supports coffee farmers and their children. Boston Tea Party also supports KeepCup, the manufacturer of a reusable coffee cup.

The company is very active in supporting local charities. Each cafe is active in choosing and supporting charities to support. Teams from Bristol attended Cock and Bull festival in 2018, raising £6,000 for Jamie's Farm, a charity which supports vulnerable inner city children.

The company further support charities by donating 10p from the sale of each coffee to charities local to each cafe.

Sustainability

The company was the first coffee chain in the world to stop issuing single use coffee cups on 1 June 2018, in order to impact on the global plastic crisis. Customers wishing to have a takeaway coffee must now either bring their own cup, borrow a loan cup from the cafe, using a fully refundable deposit, or buy one.[4] Boston Tea Party now offer reusable bamboo Ecoffee Cups at wholesale price to ensure there are no barriers to customers getting a takeaway coffee.

The cost saved from the use of paper cups – 10p per cup – is donated to charities local to each cafe.[5]

They have run talks and workshops sharing their learning and practices with other companies wishing to be more sustainable.

All food is ethically sourced from sustainable resources.

Awards

In 2015, Boston Tea Party won the award for Best Café in Food Magazine and best chain café in Café Life. In the same year it was also nominated for the Society, Large Group and Innovation awards at the Sustainable Restaurant Awards.[6]

Locations

The company's head office is based in Park Street, Bristol, England.

Current

There are currently 23 cafés within England.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Friendly urban retreat on Bristol's Park Street". food-mag.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  2. "Boston Tea Party". bostonteaparty.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  3. "Better Relationships". bostonteaparty.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  4. "Boston Tea Party becomes first café chain to announce ban on disposable coffee cups". Bristol Post. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  5. "Community Project Support". bostonteaparty.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  6. "Boston Tea Party on awards trail". hospitalityandcateringnews.com. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  7. "Our Cafés". bostonteaparty.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2020.

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