With the winter months now firmly upon us and Christmas just weeks away, it’s a season packed full of opportunity. One great way of driving up spend per visit is to take a fresh look at your seasonal coffee and chocolate serves. Who doesn’t love a warming, indulgent drink after a day Christmas shopping?

A little effort and some careful presentation can help boost sales and margins throughout the day and Booker has everything you need to maximise that seasonal serve opportunity.

Booker offers a full range of fantastic-quality and amazing-value coffee beans to help you serve those mouth-watering bean-to-cup specialities. From our bestsellers like Lichfields Italian Espresso Beans and Lavazza Qualità Rossa beans to premium options like Lichfields Fairtrade Gourmet Espresso Beans and Lavazza La Reserva de Terra Selection beans, we have the perfect option to provide great quality platforms for stunning, Insta-worthy seasonal serves.

We have also recently added some new options from Union Roastmaster which can help take your coffee serves to a new level.

When it comes to chocolate-based seasonal serves, Booker is delighted to offer our catering customers fantastic exclusive deals on the UK’s number-one chocolate brand. The Cadbury Chocolate deals feature prices of up to £5 off which are being held all the way through to 7th January 2025.

Choc full of deals

Booker catering customers can save £5 a case on 6 x 2kg cases of both Cadbury Hot Chocolate and Cadbury Instant Hot Chocolate and can save £3 a case on a 5kg tub of Cadbury Hot Chocolate.

These lines make the perfect base for some indulgent, warming serves and will boost your profits into the bargain.

Stunning serves

To help inspire you and your team, Booker has created some striking suggested serves which look fantastic when served but which are quick and simple to prepare.

Elevate a simple hot chocolate for instance by trying the Oreo Hot Chocolate or the Pistachio Hot Chocolate and you’ll make a cash profit of £2.02 on every serving at a sell price of £3.00.

Add a little extra zing – as well as extra profit – by serving a luxury Baileys Double Hot Chocolate, perfect on a chilly winter’s evening. Sell it for just £5.00 and you’ll make £3.17 in cash profit.

Perhaps you have your own ideas for adding a little glamour to a humble hot chocolate, but a little extra effort invariably goes a long way.

The options are similarly endless when it comes to coffee-based seasonal serves. A simple Biscoff Coffee brings some theatre to the table, as well as over £2.00 in cash profit when sold at £3.00, while a Chai Latte also brings some Indian sub-continent style to a coffee menu.

Or consider a Gingerbread Frappé or a Pumpkin Spiced Latte to make your coffee menu stand out. And for those who still fancy something a little cooler in winter, why not try a Milk Chocolate Crackle Iced Latte? It looks spectacular, costs just 56p a serving and generates £1.94 in cash profit from a sell price of £3.00.