I'd love to see you review Garden Centre coffee shops, because that's a tradition that lots of people get caught up in.

Honestly a Sainsbury’s cafe absolutely saved me when my partner was in hospital after major surgery. It felt like a safe and comfortable place to go. Not even sure it’s there any more as I moved away but thanks to the Sainsbury’s Cafe in Deepdale, Preston!

Ex-sainsburys cafe employee here, most of the cafes in south east got closed down after covid. It was very strange when it was announced. Their reasoning was that it was no longer profitable… this was a couple months after it re-opened from covid. Still unsure who’s idea it was as they gave it hardly any time to get back up and running again. They started closing cafes down whilst everyone was still wearing masks, a lot of people were still scared to go outside. My cafe is still open but i unfortunately had to leave as I wasn’t being appreciated there! It was kind of like the manager knew we would be closing down soon so they gave up with helping us etc. turns out my cafe has around 6 months left until it closes down. Feel for all those people who lost their jobs from someone making a very bad decision as the cafes that did shut and moved over to Starbucks and costa have not been going so well!

Would love a video where you have the same breakfast in each supermarket cafe. That's what I've been doing with my local cafes. You're not the only geek out there 😂

I live in north Wales and Asda and Tesco stores in my area have cafes! You need to add those two to the review! They definitely have the classic supermarket cafe vibes ☕️

This is the video no one asked for but we all needed ❤❤❤

Im in west midlands and supermarket cafes have definitely had a resurgence.. I personally think its because of the offers for the kids. My asda cafe does £1 lunch box (drink, sandwich, snack and piece of fruit) every day not just school holidays and its incredibly popular!

Grace I feel your pain! Such a British staple and also so great for parents with young kids who need feeding. I love dunelm for their cafe it can be a bit hit or miss but their vegetarian paninis are quite nice and who doesn’t love a look round dunelm! *my first comment as a silent viewer :) thank you for being my comfort KZfaqr xx

your my kinda person grace: one that gets excited over trying supermarket cafes ❤❤

Used to take a 10 minute walk to the Tesco cafe with my mum on a Sunday for a fry up when I was in primary school. It’s the only time we had alone when dad was working weekends and a nice treat - such a nice memory. So sad to see these cafes disappear! Loved the video ☺️

Our local Sainsbury’s in the Midlands has had a Starbucks in place of its cafe for quite a while. I think I remember reading a while ago that they were restructuring and partnering with certain other big brands

Not quite a supermarket cafe, but close enough vibes - I have such fond memories of going to the woolworths cafe with my auntie when I was little, it was massive, it felt like a full on canteen. And she would always buy me those miniature cans of pop there, what a treat 😌

Love your videos grace...As a brit living in Portugal this is 100% the vibes from home I need!!!! Wishing you all the best for your upcoming nuptials :) x

I loved this, I am a big fan of supermarket cafes, when im in the UK, I usually hang out at Tesco's supermarket cafe, which always did not disappoint😊 it did sadden me to hear the supermarket cafes are on the decline 😢

Both of the Sainsburys in our area (midlands) have Starbucks now in place of a cafe so maybe that is the way they are going? I am surprised by the morrisons cafe, ours is great, however they didn't have hot drinks last time we went and my friends had to go into the store to the hot food counter to get their drinks.

M&S is the underdog of the cafe world. I was in Oxford street at Christmas, impossible to find a seat in any Costa, Starbucks or Nero, then had a brainwave! M&S! Plenty of seats and had a cracking slice of cake and cup of tea ❤

Loved this! From working in Morrisons in the past, the ‘brew bar’ / barista bar part is just the place to get a coffee & snacks (it’s separate from the actual Morrisons cafe in most stores). Maybe you missed the cafe? X

❤ My mum works in a sainsburys cafe in North Devon, food is still delicious there 👍 also i had a yummy breakfast in Morrison's last week- very good value for money.

Having to work in one of these types of cafes (department chain store, not supermarket) your description of them being stuck in time is soooooo real lmao 😭 also idk if it’s the same for supermarkets but there were loads of rumours that ours was gonna close bc of covid. The operational costs are too high, training is too much and the management rather would outsource to like Costa/Starbucks instead. Sadly ours stayed open lmao

Here in Northern Indiana (USA) Most supermarkets have something they call a Cafe but they don't compare to the ones in your video. Often the offerings are heated up from frozen, served on Styrofoam with plastic utensils and are literally a last resort before expiring from hunger. One partial exception is a regional chain, Martin's, which have "quick" food which they actually make, plus a Starbucks. I'm older than your generation and when I was a kid many stores, grocery and pharmacies in particular, had "lunch counters " with quick to make sandwiches, coffee, etc. I worked in a pharmacy with a lunch counter and that's where I tried, I honestly tried, to learn to like coffee. Nope. Never going to happen, and this from a fellow who grew up with parents who weren't even mobile until they had the second mug of coffee in their morning hands. 😢

Ooo yes Grace this is right up my street! Can’t wait to watch

Really interesting video! Yes, I'd like to see you reviewing the same breakfast in each supermarket! I feel like you might have better luck at Tesco or Asda! :)

I would LOVE a podcast ep with you and Mikes Mic 😭😭 The vibes would be IMMACULATE

Thanks to another great upload by Grace, feeling a tad inspired to visit at least one supermarket cafe. Don't even think I've ever visited one, if I have, it is... possibility many 'moons ago.

omg the Tesco & Asda kids lunch boxes were the absolute highlight of any shopping trip as a kid, I hope they still do them🥺

As far as I’m aware Sainsbury’s plan was essentially to close all their own cafes, or at least the majority, and eventually put third party cafes in instead. I used to work at my local Sainsbury’s cafe until they closed ours last year. Not just the south east either we’re losing supermarket cafes in general and I’m in the north.

You are such a burst of positive energie can't enough watching

M&S always comes throughhhhhhh.. the one near me has such a wonderful vibe, I love it

Asda? Tesco? How could you miss these?! We need a part 2...

This is the sort of hard hitting journalism I live for!

I swear every Sainsbury’s that I go to that’s supposed to have a café has closed it down, I wonder why tbh because they’re still very popular in Europe.

I love the motivational sticker on your bedroom mirror!! I need to find one!

Funnily enough, the Sainsbury's in my town recently opened a food court featuring Harry Ramsden's and Slim Chickens and a few other chain restaurants. Definitely came out of leftfield and I certainly wouldn't have expected them to do so - especially given how there's dozens of fast food places practically on their doorstep.

Grocery store cafes were some of my most eagerly anticipated destinations when I first visited the UK in '93. I never knew they existed before then and couldn't get enough of them! (Nothing like that in the US, save for Whole Foods and maybe some specialty shops.)

I'm a store manager for Sainsburys in West Yorkshire and we have a Café 😮 must be a South East thing 🤔 Loved the video Grace, as always ❤ I'd say it's down to the current economic situation and people having less disposable income, but I'm just speculating here

Love a supermarket cafe, so loved this video! I live in West Yorkshire and my local Sainsbury’s has a café but it’s open weird hours 😬

In South Africa grocery stores also had restaurants when I was younger but now they have been replaced by the popular takeaway coffee & deli/treat kiosk.

We still have them in the Midlands. Our local Morrisons just go updated and is now food court style with multiple options. We have Asda and Tescos cafes too.

you should absolutely come up north and re-film this video, we have cafés in almost all of our supermarkets!!

I live in Portugal and we have some decent supermarket cafes here, usually Continente, Pingo Doce and Apolonia (which is like Portuguese Waitrose, fancy and expensive!). There are normal cafes everywhere too so a lot to choose from 🙂

I have some weird memories of the BHS cafe in Bromley. My mum used to take me there all the time for their breakfast and it was great! But why was the room SO BIG (I don't know if it was just because I was small). Also the corridor to get to the toilets on that floor terrified me!

As someone who works in a supermarket cafe, I think so many are shutting down because we have the lowest profit margins of all the departments in the whole store. Whereas clothing and home can take tens of thousands with only 4 staff to man the whole floor, and with electricity as the only outgoing, the cafe has to have lots of staff to cook, clean, serve, make coffee, do the till, etc. So already, for a department where the average customer spends less than in other departments, there’s more staff to pay. Add on to that the huge cost of the ovens, microwaves, coffee machines, industrial dishwashers, other water, and the fact that your stock can only last until the use by date and can’t be kept and just put on sale over and over, it means that even on a good week, your profit is normally way less than half of any of the other departments. It’s also the biggest hassle for management as there’s loads of hygiene and food safety requirements and assessments, and cafes tend to be open to worse reviews as customers go in expecting you to wait on them hand and foot, whereas just a smile can get a good review in other departments. My cafe is very busy all of the time and yet there’s often discussion about whether maintaining it is worth it.

Loved this video! ❤ This is so interesting to see, because we don’t have cafes in supermarket here in the Netherlands. Supermarkets are quite small actually compared to some other European countries 😢

Could try Tesco - our local big one in Horley has 2 cafes!! A coffee shop type vibe downstairs, and more of a canteen vibe upstairs! Could make a whole day of it! 😂

Fun video… and what a great explanation of how it feels in them 😂

Grace!! if you have time, TK max has a wild amount of snacks that must! be reviewed

An all day breakfast at Sainsburys cafe was my treat growing up 🥰

Grace!! I'm from Germany and traveling to London tomorrow. So I have one question and one question only: what are these favourite olives from Tesco? I really want to try them!!❤🌻

Seeing the M&S cafe in The Glades gave me whiplash, never expect to see local places popping up in KZfaq videos. Always a welcome surprise, pointing it out like SpongeBob in the episode with the Krusty Krab advert.

loveee this video

Best breakfast/brunch in central London 👀 I'm always looking for good brunch spots. Would love to see! Preferably ones that cater to various diets too🩷

The cafes in Sainsburys have closed. I work in one that I would say is 20-25mins from you (ish) and we have replace the cafe with branded restaurants. So Slim Chickens, Harry Ramsdens etc xx

Some Wilko shops have cafés! I often wonder what they're like. The one here in Newcastle has one but it constantly seems empty.

So garden centres and garden centres cafes! 😊

they are DEFFO still a thing up north, my local morrisons, asda and M&S all have cafes :)

Can't believe one day I'd see Waitrose selling dry cake🤨 wish there'd be a short video of you taste testing percy pig and colin slush🤩love your videos🥰

I’m in Yorkshire and we have all the supermarket cafes except the Asda near me closed around Covid time. I don’t rate Sainsbury’s but M&S,Morrison’s ,Tesco and Waitrose are always busy. I think Morrison’s is probably best value and has a lovely vibe if you happen to catch their Age Concern morning with a lovely cornet player doing show tunes-so good.

All the Sainsbury’s by me changed their cafes to a Starbucks!

I currently work in a Morrisons cafe! The cafes are all still open it’s the brew bars that have been closed down in a lot of stores! So you may have just gone to a store that doesn’t have a cafe but they are definitely still a thing!!

It's the same here in the US, a lot of supermarket cafes closed for pandemic and a lot didn't reopen or they scaled way down....

My grandad used to take me to Sainsbury’s cafe after my orthodontist appointments. It was great

Hi grackle, I'm from blackpool and my local sainsburys cafe has shut down too! I was sad cos it was so good! RIP sainsbury's cafe 😢

You should try a 10k dessert challenge with all your favourites sweets😊😊😊

You need to come to the Midlands! Our local Sainsburys has a GBK, Harry Ramsden, Ed's, Carluccios and some fancy wings place in their cafe now!

You should review all the common hotel breakfasts!

Sainsbury’s near me has a eds diner, harry ramsdens and many more

M&S cafes are 100% my favourite supermarket cafe, especially at Christmas!

All the Tesco I’ve been to now have Costa instead BUT the big Sainsbury near me (Norfolk) still has the cafe open 🤷‍♀️

Our Sainsbury's café in the South East closed down too, the only supermarket café left near me is Tesco - or the Asda has a McDonald's but that doesn't count 😂

Come to Maidstone there’s sainsburys cafe in the Aylesford branch and an M&S down the road from it lol and a Morrisons cafe in Maidstone too x

Also, if you’re in the south east, try Westwood cross in Thanet, they’ve 100% got a Sainsbury’s cafe and Tesco cafe

booths just opened their new cafe concept and I feel like you need to make a trip up north to experience it

Hannah Marling did a video like this 2 years ago! (her nan is the best)

I love tesco and Morrisons cafe. Xx

Marks and Spencers smoked bacon ciabatta is SO good you should definitely go back and try that

Morrisons near me is definitely the busiest supermarket cafe! I hardly ever see anyone in asda or tesco cafes. One of the tesco 20 mins away from me has a Costa in it and seems to always be busy though! My local sainsburys cafe has shut down! I’m in Scotland btw x

omg my family were def a department store cafe family - M&S, Debenhams, House of Frasier, John Lewis.. most have shut down now but we alwaysss used to pop into the M&S cafe in town for a cup of tea or a sandwich with my nanny if we were out and about

Many supermarkets here in the US have cafes that range in style, price point etc. Some markets are adding them complete with a bar and live music. (And by supermarket I’m thinking groceries only). Nordstrom has always had good cafes but I haven’t been to one in a while)

lots of sainsburys cafes have shut but loads reopening with several eateries in ours has coffee place harry ramsdens and gourmet burger

we still have all our supermarket cafes up here in the south of scotland lol, though some do leave much to be desired (looking at you asda)

Oh my gosh! You were in my childhood town! I didn’t realise that you lived so close to where I grew up. My inner teen is screaming the fact I wasn’t there when you were! Xx

My 2 local sainsburys in south wales are thriving!! They’ve refurbished and rebranded it as a restaurant hub rather than a sainsburys cafe and serve food from Ed’s Easy Diner, Carluccios and Harry Ramsdens! Nice but not authentic I miss that traditional sainsbirys cafe feel 😢

Ahh that’s such a shame you had a bad experience with some of the restaurants.. I live in Devon and have such great supermarket restaurants near me!! My fave being Morrisons😁

I think Sainsbury's are moving towards a food hall kind of concept which randomly apparently was trialed in one near my family home.

Plssssss do a comparison of an M&S fry up, Wetherspoons and then an independent cafe!! I'd love this hahaha

In the Highlands I stay in we have a cafe in Asda a cafe in Morrisons ( Love it ) a cafe in Tesco and Marks and Spencer’s supermarket cafes are still a thing up here but we don’t have Waitrose or Sainsburys

My local Sainsbury’s have just opened their café which is rather surprising for being from the Welsh valleys.

Maybe it's cost of living? I don't think alot of the cafés reopened post covid. I think supermarket food is so expensive now people just aren't staying for a coffee ( I very rarely did anyway) Sainsbury's has reduced their free parking to 2 hours so you wouldn't have enough time to shop and have lunch.

they did close down all the sainsburys cafes nationwide :((( my mum used to work in one, it's so sad!! apparently they're planning to open mini food courts where they used to be with starbucks and an italian chain

I had the same thing happen to me with sainsburys!! I walked there and was so disappointed when I found out!

Awwww my first big girl job was BHS too :) ❤

I’m pretty sure if M&S food PR saw this, they would be raging you wasn’t allowed to film! They are so pro filming, sounds you got a Karen!

Grace, you're a top gal, but this video was an unmitigated disaster 😂

Absolutely gutted also! I love cafes, full stop, and have used one Waittose cafe on the regular in the past. Hey, why not Tesco's? I think they all have Costa Coffees inside them but it's still a supermarket cafe. I've had many a good time in different locations. Xxx

My Sainsbury’s cafe has shut but it has now changed to like a mini food court where you get slims chicken and harry ramsdon and something else

There is a good Sainsbury's cafe in Sydenham in South east London. Has Ed's dinner, honest burger and Harry ramstons with in it!

In Auckland the supermarket cafes were a lot simpler but they too have disappeared

Our Sainsbury’s cafe closed and turned into a food hub, which is Harry ramsdens, carluccios cafe, slim chickens and gourmet burger.

Grace you need to come back to the states and come to Texas! We have H‑E‑B and it’s one of the best grocery stores ever! They just opened a 4 story one in Austin that has a 2 story bbq restaurant.

Sainsbury by me have opened a cafe again but it’s Harry ramstons fish’s and chips & caluccios in it too