Sustainable Café Chain, Venus, to Open at the Shops at Dartington

The Venus Company has announced the planned expansion of its award-winning, environmentally-friendly café chain with a new Venus Café and Takeaway at the Shops at Dartington in Devon.
 
April 13, 2011 - PRLog -- The Venus Company has announced the planned expansion of its award-winning, environmentally-friendly café chain with a new Venus Café and Takeaway at the Shops at Dartington.

Twice winners of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development, Venus’ expansion will see its beach-side café offering become available for the first time in a non-beach location.

From April, Venus will take over the running of the former Cider Press Café and Takeaway at the Shops at Dartington. The new location will provide an all-year, non-weather-dependent addition to the Venus food & beverage operation.

The expansion into the Shops at Dartington will be a welcome addition to the local economy. A long-standing champion of local food and drink, Venus will be looking to increase the variety of local produce on offer through the Café and Takeaway. Serving breakfast from 8:30am, it is hoped that the new food facilities will benefit the shop owners, with customers visiting Dartington earlier in the morning.

The new opening is the result of Venus’s wish to expand and the Shops at Dartington’s desire to offer a new catering experience.  Venus proved to be the obvious choice due to the synergy in the sustainability mission and values of the two businesses.

Barbara King, Shops at Dartington Managing Director commented: “We’re very excited about welcoming Venus to the Shops at Dartington. The company has many values in line with the core values of Dartington, so it’s a natural fit between the two companies”.

Venus has consistently integrated environmental and social care into every business decision in support of its mission to be the greenest café and shop operator. The company strives to minimise any harmful effects whilst maximising the beneficial influences of its activities on the environment and the community.

Venus have received numerous awards for its sustainability and environmental endeavours. Their most recent accolade of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development recognised the ‘company’s impressive commitment to progressing the sustainability of its operations’ and described the company as ‘a rare example of a sustainable café chain’.  

Michael Smith, Managing Director of Venus said: “The opportunity to expand the Venus chain with an opening at the Shops at Dartington provided us with a great way of bringing the much-loved Venus beach café concept to the high-street.  Our shared commitment to sustainability issues will ensure that we continue to provide the best quality café experience whilst balancing the customers’ needs with both the environmental and social considerations."  

Established in 1995 by Michael Smith, Louisa Newman and Lee Porter, Venus serves local and organic produce to over 650,000 customers a year and sources products from 71 quality local producers in Devon and Cornwall. Aside from its new outlet at Dartington, Venus Cafés are located at Blackpool Sands, East Portlemouth and Bigbury on Sea in Devon and Tolcarne and Watergate Bay in Cornwall.

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