Creams Cafe Franchise

About the Creams Cafe Franchise

Creams Cafe is the UK’s leading dessert restaurant brand. Founded in 2008, Creams celebrates the fun, colourful, and delicious.

Customers can enjoy a wide range of freshly prepared desserts ranging from waffles and crêpes to hot puddings and sundaes, an innovative doughnut range and extensive plant-based desserts, alongside savoury hot pockets and popcorn chicken waffle bites - a UK first.

All desserts feature Creams’ own gelato which is produced daily using Italian-sourced ingredients in it’s own facilities in London. On average, Creams serves more than 4 million customers, dishing out over 50 million scoops of gelato and 1 million milkshakes annually

Franchise Characteristics:

• Financing assistance
• Training provided
• Part-time or full-time
• Home-based
• F&B operator
• Full time managing business
• Training provided
• Marketing support
• Menu development
• Commercial planning support

Franchise offer

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Detailed franchise description

High quality, home made gelato, waffles, crepes and cookie dough, with innovative, award-winning dessert creations. Creams café will help the franchisee to setup local production of gelato, to ensure a high margin on product, and bigger contribution to EBITDA.

How much does the Creams Cafe franchise cost?

Initial investment: $200,000
Royalties: 6%
Franchise fees: $25,000
Average turnover per month: $80,000
Payback period: 36 months

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Business model

Creams can offer different models for new market entry, including Exclusivity for Master Franchisees, Development agreements, and in some markets (UAE / KSA) also a potential for Joint Ventures.

Franchise advantages

Creams Cafe’s focus on quality and innovation has been recognised with several awards including ‘Best menu Innovation’ at the QSR awards 2024, ‘Most innovative Business at the UK hospitality awards 2024, and ‘Best Brand Partner’ at the Menu Innovation and Development Awards (Midas) and ‘Best Family Restaurant’ at the Deliveroo Restaurant Awards in October 2021. It has been also recognised as one of the top ten most loved Eating Out brands in the UK in 2021 by Savanta Research.

Size of area

Store sizes vary from 50sqm – 200 sqm

We have flexible formats to cater to different markets and differing customer profiles in various retail environments.

Requirements to buy franchise

1. Ideally, franchise partner will have food & beverage experience.
2. Needs to pass anti-money laundering checks as per UK regulations.