The UK Franchise Growth Index

Coffee Planet

Coffee Planet is a coffee roasting, supply and café brand established in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates. Its development began with fresh coffee vending for convenience locations and expanded into hospitality, foodservice and retail. The business subsequently developed its own roasting operation and an international franchise proposition built around specialty Arabica coffee.

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The customer and business offer spans cafés, coffee supply, equipment and support services. Published franchise profiles describe several outlet formats, including cafés, kiosks, modular pods, carts and vending. These serve different property sizes and customer occasions, so a compact coffee cart and a full café should not be treated as interchangeable investments.

UK franchise material records an early Cardiff operation and plans to develop regional clusters. Much of that published account refers to a 2020 strategy, so its proposed locations do not establish the present trading estate. The international website also invites distributor enquiries, which represent a supply relationship rather than necessarily providing rights to operate a branded café.

Coffee Planet's wider operating resources include equipment maintenance and training services, with its Campus programme covering coffee knowledge, brewing, barista skills and related subjects. These demonstrate specialist capability within the business. However, publicly available customer or professional courses should not automatically be assumed to form part of every UK franchise package without confirmation.

The published franchise proposition gives a local operator access to the brand, coffee offer and format-specific design guidance. The owner's role depends on whether the agreed operation is a café, kiosk or another retail format, with staffing, premises and service requirements changing accordingly. Current UK territory availability, contractual support and investment were not independently verified, and historic international figures should not be presented as a confirmed contemporary UK offer.

At a glance

Coffee Planet at a glance.

Industry: Food and Drink
Franchise category: Coffee
Sub industry: Coffee Shop
Founded: 2005
Approximate locations: 1
Headquarters: UAE
BFA member: Yes
UK origin: No
International brand: Yes
Recruitment status: Active

Investment

Franchise investment.

Management franchise: Yes
Retail premises: Yes
Executive franchise: Yes
Master franchise available: Yes

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Five Fibre assessment

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01 Assess Developing11.5/20

Assess: Coffee Planet has continuing international coffee operations and recent Cardiff venue evidence. The current UK franchise offer and representative owner economics remain uncertain.

Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. The official legacy update reports 2025 group revenue growth, and Cardiff has recent inspection and customer ordering evidence. Revenue growth and an operating venue do not establish UK franchise-owner net profitability.
Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. The scale of international production and specialist operating functions indicate delegation. A documented month-long founder absence or current UK franchise test was not verified.
Ideal franchise owner defined: Partially, 1.5/3. Historical recruitment seeks commercially capable, adequately funded operators with customer-service commitment and local knowledge. The equivalent current UK selection criteria were not confirmed.
Realistic owner money: Partially, 2/4. Published directory investment figures give an initial indication, but vary by format, date and scope. A complete current UK fee schedule, working capital and representative owner net-income model was not found.
Different opportunity: Yes, 3/3. Specialty Arabica coffee, an in-house roasting heritage and several café or compact formats define a recognisable proposition. Branded café rights are distinct from wholesale and distributor relationships.

02 Build Weak Foundation8.5/20

Build: Historical franchise documentation and current technical expertise support some repeatability. A current complete UK franchise operating infrastructure is not verified.

Documented operating playbook: Partially, 2.5/5. Whichfranchise describes design manuals, palettes and materials. A complete current UK café operations playbook, including service, people and commercial routines, was not inspected or specifically confirmed.
Structured onboarding: Partially, 2/4. Historical franchise coverage promises initial barista and café training. The current Campus curriculum confirms training capability, but does not establish a structured UK franchise-owner onboarding programme or its contractual inclusion.
Documented brand experience: Partially, 2/4. Design manuals and historical brand-auditing support are described. Current equipment maintenance and training also support consistency, without confirming a complete current UK franchise brand-standard programme.
One central resource location: No public verification, 0/3. No authenticated or explicitly documented current UK franchise hub consolidating operating manuals, templates, training and marketing resources was located. A public course catalogue is not equivalent.
Launch without constant founder involvement: Partially, 2/4. Technical, training and partnership functions exist, and past franchise material describes launch assistance. A current UK launch delivered through a complete delegated support team was not verified.

03 Launch Weak Foundation8/20

Launch: Historical franchise promotion remains available in directories. The current official UK offer and complete applicant journey need re-establishing.

Clear franchise proposition: Partially, 2.5/5. Directories distinguish café, kiosk, pod and cart opportunities, but the current official site foregrounds supply and distribution. A dated approved UK café-franchise offer was not located.
Targeted applicant attraction: Partially, 2/4. Historical exhibitions and investor-oriented directory copy evidence ownership targeting. Current UK campaign activity and refreshed messages for the available opportunity were not verified.
Clear ownership enquiry journey: Partially, 2/4. The BFA profile has an information-request form and the official site has a general contact form. Its UK website link failed to load and no complete current franchise enquiry-to-next-step journey was established.
Pre-acceptance discovery: No public verification, 0/4. Historical material offers discussions about agreement types, but a structured current UK discovery, due diligence, selection and approval sequence was not located.
Go-to-market plan: Partially, 1.5/3. The BFA profile and historical exhibition coverage record a UK cluster-development and promotional approach. A current dated UK opportunity launch plan was not verified.

04 Grow Critical Gap3.5/20

Grow: Public UK recruitment measurement is limited. Historical territory planning and a reported partnership-role succession do not establish current recruitment performance.

Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No monthly UK franchise enquiry volumes or qualified prospect trend was located. A listed opportunity or international expansion does not establish consistent monthly UK enquiries.
Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. Exhibition participation is described historically, without source attribution, comparative prospect quality, recruitment cost or evidence of the best-performing ownership channels.
Ownership conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No current UK enquiry-to-meeting, approval or signed-owner conversion rates were located. Group wholesale customer growth measures a different commercial relationship.
Next territories identified: Partially, 1.5/3. The BFA profile names historic UK regional and rail opportunities. No current ranked UK target map or confirmation of those territories' continuing availability was verified.
Recruitment beyond founder: Partially, 2/4. June 2025 trade reporting states Wesley Morrison would take over Scott Treasden's partnership brief. This supports professional delegation, without verifying current UK recruitment responsibility, resourcing or consistent delivery.

05 Amplify Weak Foundation8.5/20

Amplify: Historical marketing support and Cardiff customer channels provide partial evidence. Current support and measurement for every UK franchise owner remain unverified.

Local customer acquisition help: Partially, 2.5/5. Historical franchise coverage describes promotional planning, marketing and social support. Current delivery of those resources to UK franchise owners was not verified.
Every owner represented online: Partially, 2/4. The Cardiff venue has local Just Eat and Deliveroo menus and customer review listings. No current UK franchise-owner census and matching online-presence coverage was established.
Continuing local growth plan: Partially, 2/4. Historical material promises ongoing business development and promotion advice, but a current UK owner-specific marketing plan and review cadence were not located.
Individual owner enquiry and performance tracking: No public verification, 0/3. No current UK franchise-owner customer lead, conversion or commercial-performance dashboard was verified. Machine monitoring and maintenance reporting do not demonstrate customer acquisition tracking.
Customers beyond personal contacts and referrals: Partially, 2/4. Cardiff's public delivery channels and the brand's broader marketing demonstrate acquisition routes. Their systematic replication and results across current UK franchise owners were not verified.

40/100 Overall Five Fibre score

Coffee Planet scores 40/100, Fragile Foundation, from an unrounded weighted total of 40.0. Fibre totals: Assess 11.5/20; Build 8.5/20; Launch 8/20; Grow 3.5/20; Amplify 8.5/20. Assess is strongest; Grow is weakest. The score concerns publicly evidenced current UK franchise growth infrastructure, not the quality of its international coffee products or proof of an internally deficient business.

Priority 1, Grow: Confirm the current UK recruitment owner and available territories, then report monthly ownership enquiries, qualification, source quality and stage conversion. Keep distributor, wholesale customer and café-owner pipelines separate.
Priority 2, Launch: Publish or verify a dated UK franchise proposition, a working dedicated contact route and a complete discovery and selection process, with current format-specific fees and launch plans.
Priority 3, Build: Verify the complete UK operating manual, owner onboarding, brand checks and central resource access, including who delivers opening support and which current training and maintenance services are included contractually.

Research and discrepancies, 4 November 2026: The live BFA listing identifies International Member status, but its narrative explicitly discusses a 2020 UK development strategy. Its Cardiff and other proposed sites are historical plans, not proof of completed expansion. The current official international sales page seeks distributors; this is not automatically an offer of rights to operate a branded UK café. The BFA-linked coffeeplanet.co.uk returned a gateway error in this research, while coffeeplanet.com remained accessible. The general official contact form and BFA information-request form were inspected without submitting data; follow-up and applicant acceptance were not tested. Whichfranchise states that the brand is no longer featured there, while retaining historical copy.

UK trading counterevidence: The official Food Standards Agency record for The Kiosk, Newport Road, Cardiff shows an inspection dated 26 September 2026. Just Eat and Deliveroo expose local menus and ordering routes. This supports a continuing customer-facing Cardiff presence, without proving its current ownership structure, a new franchise sale, venue net profit or the number of UK franchisees. Point Franchise describes the 2018 Cardiff opening as company-owned. September 2021 Global Franchise coverage lists Cardiff and Tuxford, while June 2025 Propel calls Cardiff the only UK site at that date. The discrepancy is retained rather than selecting a convenient count. International outlet, vending-machine and distribution-country totals are not converted into UK owners.

Investment discrepancies: Point Franchise shows £20,000 minimum/admission fee and total investment from £175,000 with a 6% royalty. Whichfranchise describes approximately £50,000 for a cart, £80,000 for a kiosk and £180,000 café fit-out; the BFA field states £250,000 start-up cost. These reflect differing scopes and potentially older terms. None is presented as an approved current UK quotation or a verified owner earnings forecast.

Leadership freshness: The BFA and older promotional articles name Scott Treasaden. Propel, dated 6 June 2025 and using the spelling Treasden, reports his departure and says sales/marketing director Wesley Morrison would inherit the brief. This supersedes the old contact attribution for historical assessment purposes but does not independently confirm Morrison's exact role in November 2026. No current CEO or UK franchise director is invented. The current official legacy page identifies Allan Jones as Founder and Chairman and reports 2025 group revenue growth; these are group-level statements, not UK franchise profit evidence. The Companies House record for COFFEE PLANET LIMITED 05328300 is active, but a matching name does not alone prove it is the current franchise contracting entity.

Support evidence is qualified by scope and date. The Campus page describes specialist coffee courses and the service page describes equipment maintenance and reporting. They demonstrate operating expertise, not necessarily inclusion in a UK franchise agreement. Global Franchise's 2021 content partnership describes barista training, marketing and brand auditing; it is historical promotional evidence rather than an independent current delivery audit. No current UK owner resource portal, complete manual, onboarding record, local marketing calendar or recruitment/customer-conversion dashboard was inspected. Missing public verification does not mean these are absent internally. Existing publication status and other metadata remain unchanged; current UK opportunity status and contracting arrangements warrant separate verification.

Benchmark

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Overall, against the whole Index

This network40

UK Index average64

Overall, against Food and Drink (179 networks)

This network40

Industry average65

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