Self-Serve OJ

Fresh, great value, self serve orange juice machine seen in Darling Harbour shopping centre in Sydney.

Tea on Tap

Self-serve raw fermented Kombucha tea on tap at Wholefoods Market

Self-Serve Cafe

 Good example of low cost, volunteer-run, customer self-service cafe at the Allen Gallery, Alton in Hampshire

 Self-service automatic coffee machine and hot water for teas

 Variety of self-serve cakes

 Pay volunteer at reception desk

 Cold drinks and ice cream available

 Seating areas both outside

and inside

Totally Self-Serve

 Interesting new John Lewis restaurant at New Street Station, Birmingham with two striking self-serve hot drink stations.  This will certainly bust those queues and keep the labour costs down.

Video Coffee

WMF now have a self-service bean to cup coffee machine with video screen so that you get the whole story about the coffee - where it is grown, etc, etc - while your coffee is prepared.

Costa Competition?

Will Lavazza challenge the UK market leader?

Make Your Own Waffles

Make your own waffles at Cornwall's Watergate Bay hotel breakfast buffet plus step by step guide on the menu.  The kids adored it. Machine and mixture from The Malted Waffle Company www.waffles.co.uk

Simple Self-Serve

 Pay at the till where you are given a mug and then serve yourself.  It works well at an Asda cafe and the calorie count is clear.

Flunch

Impressive good value displays at a very busy Flunch cafe restaurant in Lille.

Fruit Bar plus quality displays

Self-service food, drinks and beer.

All ages are catered for.

Kids order via a screen.

Little Waitrose: Big Offer

The "Little Waitrose" in the City has tempting displays, fresh unrefrigerated baguettes ....

.... and free take-out coffee for Waitrose card holders.

Breakfast Bar None

 All you can eat breakfast bar at Yorks Bakery Cafe, Birmingham - another reason they get our Cafe of the Year accolade.

 £5 per person for unlimited porridge, cereal, fruit, toast and bagels available until midday (2pm at weekends).

Queues Please

Howler at the Vatican Museum where boxed salads are in customer accessible shelves and queues are long. See more at http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/cafe-howlers/

Glimpse of the Future

We have always said it is perfectly possible to have a (high volume) cafe where customers can serve themselves .... until the till.  See how the Donq bakery has now sorted this out at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9761797.stm using software recognition equipment.

Seriously German About Bread

Bakehaus' bakery cafe in Hammersmith has some interesting ideas including out front production.

Self-serve hot drinks and quality tea

Some new pastries that may be common in Germany but aren't usually seen over here

Simple, Self Serve, Hot Food

Heinz Soup

Baked off pies and sausage rolls

Toast & preserves (and Nutella)

Simple, high quality, self-serve hot food at the Beach Cafe, Wells-next-the-Sea and what a volume it can deal with.

Self Service Tutti Frutti

Self-service frozen yogurt at Tutti Frutti in Covent Garden - "the largest frozen yogurt brand in the world"

Instructions

Health benefits of their soybean yogurt

Self-Serve Hot Drinks

Yes we can ...... serve ourselves hot drinks. 

Only relevant to the larger cafe and where queuing is a potential problem but the elderly and the disabled do cope and some actually prefer to serve themselves.