'Coffee shops opening now look like hotel lobbies'
It's hard to imagine when walking around the bustling Northern Quarter of today, but when artist couple Wayne Lew and Jane Spindler decided to open their own artisan coffee and tea shop in Manchester it was one of the first of its kind. Back in 2010 they decided to open North Tea Power to showcase speciality espresso coffees and loose leaf tea.
Jane, also 44, adds: "With coffee, when it's hot weather, sales go down anyway, and at this time of year people are going on holiday, it felt like we were dragging out the inevitable." "To stay in this area, we just needed to be like that, we needed to be like the rest, we need a big kitchen. You need to keep getting a new crowd, new people in, and if we weren't gaining that section of the audience then that's our bad."
But, as the years rolled on, while other "OG" businesses in the area invested in refits, it's something that simply hasn't been an option for North Tea Power - and they've continued to work from a tiny kitchen inside the premises. Jane sighs: "It's difficult to make money on a coffee where it costs £3.50 a time."
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