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AN M&S café is to close its doors for good later this week.
The in-store café at M&S Food Beverley will serve its final customers on Saturday, August 8, as part of a wider decision by Marks & Spencer to shut cafés located within its smaller food-only outlets.
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In October, an M&S spokesman said: "As we look to modernise our food business and offer the best of M&S Food to more people, more often, we’re investing in our store estate to give our customers the widest possible product range.
"This includes opening brand-new coffee shops offering delicious food and barista-made fairtrade coffee, including at our brand-new Bristol Cabot Circus store.
"In some of our small Food stores, where customers want a greater range of M&S Food, our transformation also involves repurposing cafe space across 11 small food stores, out of over 300 M&S cafes, coffee shop and coffee to go locations."
The company said the decision would not result in job losses, with affected staff remaining in-store.
The changes are part of a £300m investment and store rotation programme, which will see M&S expand its network to around 420 food stores by the end of 2028.