{"id":18994,"date":"2018-02-09T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:53:43","slug":"fear-for-local-cafes-as-coffee-chain-opens-in-roath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/fear-for-local-cafes-as-coffee-chain-opens-in-roath\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear for local cafes as coffee chain opens in Roath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An independent coffee shop owner says the recent surge of larger coffee shop chains in<br \/>\nCardiff could threaten business.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It comes after the Canadian chain Tim Hortons opened two city centre stores in just over six weeks, one on Queen Street and another on Working Street.<\/p>\n<p>A third store will be opening on Albany Road in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hortons will be the newest coffee shop to go alongside a number of chain cafes already on Albany Road, including Coffee #1 and Costa Coffee.<\/p>\n<p>But Trevor Hyam, barista and owner of the independent coffee shop The Plan, says competition from large chains in Cardiff means he has to take a different approach to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an independent coffee maker, our focus is making the best coffee for our customers. For example, I&#8217;m insistent on not using syrups and training our baristas to be of the highest quality, not just in Cardiff but in the UK. I&#8217;m confident that the wider public are knowledgeable enough to know when a high class coffee is placed in front of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hortons were unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent coffee shop owner says the recent surge of larger coffee shop chains in Cardiff could threaten business.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[1462,359,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19283,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions\/19283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}