Turn Takeaway Into Take-Home: How Branded Capsules & Retail Coffee Can Add $15K to Your Café’s Bottom Line

For many cafés, the focus is (rightfully) on the cup — serving great coffee, building relationships, and creating a consistent customer experience.

But one area that’s often overlooked is what happens after your customers leave.

We’ve noticed a clear pattern among many Ublend® partners: cafés that offer a small range of branded retail coffee and Nespresso®-compatible capsules often generate between $10,000 and $15,000 in additional revenue per year.

And the surprising part? It doesn’t take much to achieve that.

One Box a Week, A Few Bags on the Shelf

Most cafés doing this aren’t turning into retail shops. They’re simply offering:

• A few 250g bags of their house blend

• Occasional single origins or decaf

• Around one box per week of Nespresso®-compatible capsules

It’s a quiet, low-effort addition that customers appreciate. People enjoy taking home the coffee they already love, and it deepens their connection to your brand outside the café.

Why It Works

It meets a common need. Many café owners have heard the same question again and again:

“Can I buy this coffee to take home?”

Offering retail options helps:

• Build customer loyalty

• Strengthen your brand presence

• Drive repeat visits

• Generate additional revenue without operational changes

Ublend® partners who’ve tried this say it’s easy to implement. The coffee is already being roasted and packed — it’s just a matter of making some shelf space and letting your customers know it’s available.

From the Café Floor

One of our café partners shared this:

“We started slowly — a few 250g bags and a box of capsules a week. It didn’t feel like a lot, but by the end of the year we’d added around $15,000 in retail sales. The packaging looks great, the coffee quality is spot-on, and our customers are genuinely excited to take it home.”

A Natural Extension of What You’re Already Doing

If you’re already serving great coffee under your own label, offering a take-home option is a natural next step. It's a simple way to give your customers more of what they love — and see the return flow back into your business.

Want to explore what this could look like for your café?

We’re here to help.

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