Costa Coffee
We’ve been crafting the finest quality coffee for almost 50 years. From our carefully roasted signature blend—chosen after the Costa brothers blind-tested 112 variations—to our iconic Flat White and many other options. We are proud of Costa’s premium coffee offering. After the first sip, you’ll see why Costa is the perfect cup, every time.www.costacoffee.com
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Sep 11, 2026
Emily SladeHOST
If you've been struggling to get work experience, this could be good news.
Emily SladeHOST
Some of the UK's biggest retailers, including Tesco, John Lewis, Waitrose, Costa Coffee and Currys, have launched a new scheme called Opening Shift.
Emily SladeHOST
The aim? To create thousands of work experience placements and eventually help create around 100,000 jobs for young people.
Emily SladeHOST
Even if retail isn't your dream career, don't overlook these opportunities.
Sonya MoranGUEST
kind of like a thing where, you know, like when you go into an airport or somewhere like that, like you need to have all these kind of screens and things like that where, You know, you have QR codes and we direct you.
Sonya MoranGUEST
Like you could be sitting in Costa Coffee in the airport and you scan something and give a little digital route down to your gate.
Sonya MoranGUEST
And, you know, so we're kind of looking at lots of, you know me, Sharon, anyway, I can make a few, Bob.
Sonya MoranGUEST
But no matter what I do, I have to make sure I do it right though.
Fionnuala CorbettGUEST
Number two, how do I know if chicken is cooked? And number one, can you send me €20? So you're more likely to be texting your mum and dad looking for €20 than €100, which probably is going to go down well.
Fionnuala CorbettGUEST
It's a Costa Coffee survey commissioned by them and they spoke to 2,000 parents whose children have gone to university in the last five years and 1,000 teenagers and basically the teenagers can't do anything without texting mum or dad looking for help.
Anton SavageHOST
Well, can I add to the one that you said as number two, which was how do I know if chicken is cooked? Number 12 is can I eat chicken if it's a bit pink?
Fionnuala CorbettGUEST
Should we use this time as a public service announcement? The answer to that is no.
Craig WilkinsonHOST
So things that you don't want them to do, you have to tell them, "Listen, I don't want anyone sat in passenger seat of my van with their boots off, the stinky socks and the feet on my dashboard.
Craig WilkinsonHOST
With McDonald's cups and Costa Coffee cups and Greggs wrappers all in window.
Craig WilkinsonHOST
Because when you pull up at a traffic light, someone's gonna look and see our branded van.
Craig WilkinsonHOST
And apprentice has got his f- stinky feet up on dashboard, and you've got clutter and mess all over.
Dodge WoodallHOST
CVs are gone and they're dead.
Dodge WoodallHOST
And I feel sorry for people who are currently graduates who are working at Costa Coffee right now and they're 50 grand's worth of debt.
Dodge WoodallHOST
And even to get a job in Costa Coffee is hard at the moment because all the jobs we used to get growing up, all that hospitality jobs, your weekend jobs, your bar, your hotel, your restaurant, your waiter, you know, your whatever, they're all gone.
Dodge WoodallHOST
So there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a real lack of skill set out there where people know how to deal with people.
Sean StanderwickGUEST
Yeah.
Jo WilliamsHOST
From that headline, you could conclude that Sainsbury's no longer believed cafes justified the space.
Jo WilliamsHOST
But in May 2026, the company also announced the opening of its 50th Costa Coffee inside a Sainsbury's store.
Jo WilliamsHOST
It said that the partnership had created more than 400 jobs, involved nearly £16 million of combined investment, and they would add at least another 14 more locations during the year.
Jo WilliamsHOST
The same release said Sainsbury's operated more than 150 cafes, all with external providers.
Jo WilliamsHOST
We often go to the Sainsbury's at Lee, and they have a Costa coffee shop there too.
Jo WilliamsHOST
We do the same routine, and it's great.
Jo WilliamsHOST
So Sainsbury's have understood the customer need.
Kevin BonifaceHOST
The gloopy and blackened remains of a burnt-out wheelie bin and its contents block the entrance.
Kevin BonifaceHOST
[dog barks] 20-yard litter survey: a plastic takeaway box, a McDonald's cup, a wet wipe, the wrapper from a Cadbury's fudge, a dented old galvanized bucket, a washing-up bowl, another McDonald's cup, a section of foam pipe lagging, a Pepsi can, a parking ticket, some foil packaging, some plastic pre-packed sandwich packaging, an Orange Eboom can, a Budweiser can, a Kinder Bueno wrapper, a plastic bag, a Costa Coffee cup, a cardboard box, an Irn-Bru can, the contents of a burst bin liner, two unbranded takeout cups.
Kevin BonifaceHOST
"Fuck off," says the thin man to his dog at the house that smells of piss.
Kevin BonifaceHOST
A young man in a tracksuit refuses to take in a parcel for his neighbor because he doesn't really like him.
Craig SlaterGUEST
remember which was on the McLaren at the start of the 2010s season and that was called the F-Duck because it came out at the F in Vodafone the sponsor so this is called the H-Wing because it activates around the H of a sponsor's name on the car which is the name of a well-known I was going to say football stadium sponsor I've
Ted KravitzHOST
mentioned Costa Coffee and various others are they still
Craig SlaterGUEST
going Vodafone
Ted KravitzHOST
but it doesn't But it doesn't rotate around anything because it's the Macarena wing.
GaryHOST
While Mero was learning to pull pints, what was your first experience of, and where, and when, and why of hospitality? Yeah.
Liana OsterGUEST
I'm going to sound incredibly cliche Australian here, but my first hospitality experience was at, if you can imagine, the Australian version of Costa Coffee.
Liana OsterGUEST
That was me.
Liana OsterGUEST
And in Australia, you can get a job at the age of 14 and nine months.
Carmen ButcherHOST
Oh, my God.
Carmen ButcherHOST
That has reminded me of, I was in a Costa Coffee once and this guy came up to me.
Carmen ButcherHOST
I was a bit like, and he was like, excuse me.
Carmen ButcherHOST
And I was just like, I'm really sorry.
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