Our Story
Hi all, We’re Declan and Fiona, founders of Mr Cotton.
Here’s how our business came about…
OUR BRAINWAVE
Born out of our own experience of working in business parks for most of our working lives, Mr. Cotton’s brainwave was to provide a thing we always unknowingly longed for during that time.
A reason to leave the desk for a few minutes, get a bit of fresh air, have a leisurely chat and get a really good cup of coffee. This has been the core basis of Mr Cotton mobile café business since its foundation in 2006.
Our first day of trading was a memorable event
We were gearing up for the onslaught of crowds of customers. We had 20 litres of milk, 20 kg of coffee beans and enough cups for a small army. 6 hours later there had been 1 customer and 1 tea sold! Not even a coffee!!!
But being the eternal optimists, we knew that things could only get better. And better they did.
We now have 5 mobile units, an Espresso Bar, a Barista School and we distribute “Delta” coffee (see our suppliers). We are on regular routes Monday to Friday. Since 2010 we have been branching out into distribution of the Delta Café range of coffees and machines while also using the vans for weddings and other social events.
HEY MR COTTON
Ok, so now you may say “what does cotton have to do with coffee?” Not much in general, but everything for us…
Around the time we were setting up our mobile café business it happened to be our 2nd wedding anniversary. Declan from the beginning has always been into the symbols for each anniversary and the symbol for a 2nd wedding anniversary is cotton.
Emails with all kinds of business details were flying between us to get everything sorted and one of Fiona’s started with ‘Hey Mr Cotton….’. And Declan loved it 🙂
Our products
Our customers love the coffee, they rave about its smoothness and just recently we have started selling freshly ground coffee directly to you.
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