I called in Costa Coffee today to grab a gluten free cake for my journey home from Wigan.
I picked up 2 GF Cherry Bakewells for £1.55, Costa is normally good for Gluten free and also sells a brownie.
I asked the man if I could use my loyalty card, and indeed he let me and I did, I had 95p on my loyalty card and I wanted to use that on my transaction but he told me, it had to cover the whole item which I know from past experience and the Costa website isn't true.
It is hard to review a place where you only went in for pre-packaged food which wasn't made on site, a flying visit like this one but it looked like a nice store as you come in from the Crompton Street car park.
It certainly isn't the best cofee shop in this shopping centre and on the streets just outside, I much prefer Starbucks and Caffe Nero to Costa and would rather visit smaller businesses like Muffin Break, rather than the UK giant as they have better cofee, a wide array of gluten free muffins and they are a smaller giant, with under 50 stores, I am sure Costa has this many in Greater Manchester.
I feel it is unfair to give this store 1 star, but I don't want to give it higher than 2 because of the following reasons
- They is much better a short walk away from here in the Arndale, or on the surroinding streets
- Barista could of appeared to be more friendlier
- He could of gave me the 95p off that really should of been used on my loyalty card
- No Gluten free sandwiches avaliable which really upsets me as Costa and Starbucks used to have a GF wrap until the Christmas period, where they changed for a festive one and since then, not one store has reverted back to an old or different non-christmas wrap based on my numerous visits, if you read my reviews you know how often I go Starbucks so I am surprised to see this is also happening with Costa. read more