A COFFEE shop’s organic sourdough bread is so popular with its customers that the owners have made a whopping 1,500 deliveries of it and other groceries since lockdown came into place.
Lynwood & Co owners Kats and Rob Broadbent have been busy delivering the freshly baked bread, along with fresh fruit and vegetables, cakes, eggs and milk to customers in West Oxfordshire.
The couple, who own shops in Burford and Carterton, have not allowed coronavirus to stand in the way of their business.
In fact, the coffee shop chain is making on average, over 60 deliveries a day.
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“We’ve done about 1,500 deliveries in the last four weeks, so we’re doing a lot of mileage,” explained Mrs Broadbent, 47.
“We’re delivering six days a week, within a 15 mile radius of our central production kitchen.
“It got so busy we had to hire another van.
“We’ve got two full time drivers, three full time bakers and three doing other bits, so we’ve managed to keep eight on full time.
“We’re lucky to be able to do this.”
The new initiative has proven so popular that the couple are aiming to try and keep an aspect of the delivery service going once normality resumes.
The duo were fortunate to already have a van, which was used to distribute freshly baked produce from the production kitchen in Hatherop, Gloucestershire to the shops in West Oxfordshire.
The couple also own shops in Lechlade and Fairford in Gloucestershire.
“It’s been really well received and enabled us to keep going,” Mrs Broadbent added.
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“A lot of the orders come from repeat customers but we’re getting new ones as well through word of mouth and social media.
“The ordering system on the website allows people to order away.”
Earlier this year, the Australian couple celebrated five years since the first shop opened in Lechlade.
The first Lynwood & Co opened in Oxfordshire at the Burford site in July 2018, while the Carterton store opened in August last year.
The couple met in Sydney in 1998 and have now been married 18 years, and have two children.
It was in the Australian city that the inspiration for the coffee shop came.
Mr Broadbent’s mum owned a cafe with the same name, with Mrs Broadbent describing it as a ‘beautiful old building’.
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