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University House Café will close on Thursday 7 December until February 2024, while it has an exciting refurb.

Red Rocket is open now serving Grilled Cheese with tasty vegetarian and vegan fillings as well as Barista made coffee. Located in the computer science quadrant, Find out more here: Red Rocket at the University of Warwick | Warwick Retail

We’re excited to be launching spud, our food truck offering loaded baked potatoes with a selection of delicious fresh vegetarian and vegan fillings. It is located outside Warwick Business School. Find out more here: SPUD Loaded Baked Potatoes | University of Warwick

A huge congratulations goes to a Warwick Retail team member this week! Fabio Finocchiaro who manages Rootes Grocery Store has won at the Retail Industry Awards, leaving the evening with the Independent Store Manager of the Year accolade.

Fabio has worked for the business for over 20 years and uses his vast industry experience to lead a team of 43 who cater to the impressive University population of up to 29,000 students, as well as members of staff.

Rootes Grocery Store was also highly commended in the Food-To-Go category for independent stores.

Working in partnership with Starbucks, Warwick Retail is delighted to announce that NAIC Café will be serving Starbucks ‘We Proudly Serve’ range of drinks from Tuesday 1 September.

The international coffee brand was successfully launched in Library Coffee Bar earlier in the year and is part of Retail’s plan to create distinct food and drink choices around campus through a balanced mix of University-managed cafes and restaurants and popular high street brands. Since 2019 a number of high street brands are operating at campus including Pret a Manger, Caffe Nero and Aroma.

Vicki Boyd, Head of Retail Service Operations, said: “Starbucks came out as students’ number one coffee brand in recent research carried out by the University, so we know that Starbucks is a brand that students are really passionate about. After the successful trial in Library Coffee Bar, we are really looking forward to launching Starbucks much loved coffee and frappuccino offer in NAIC Cafe.”

NAIC Café is currently open Monday – Friday 8.00am – 2.00pm serving takeout only. From September the café team are planning to provide hot food and open the café so that customers can eat in as well as looking at how to reintroduce bring your own reusable cup safely.

Come and visit NAIC Café and let our friendly, trained baristas serve your favourite Starbucks drink.

Warwick Retail is following all Governmental recommendations and working in partnership with the University of Warwick and Public Health England to monitor the global outbreak of Covid-19.

Throughout Green Week, which runs from 2 - 8 March, bring your reusable cup to any of our cafes and get 25p off your hot drink and double loyalty stamps.

Don't have a reusable cup? You can buy one at any of our cafes for £3.00 and get a regular tea or filter coffee included in the price.

Since the beginning of January, NAIC Café has been serving simple, hot food every week day from 5 – 6.30pm.

The hot food offer has been well received by staff and students and in response to feedback about a central location, the offer will be moving to Rootes Grocery Store. From Monday 17 February the dishes will be available 4.30 – 6pm in the ‘hot eats’ section in store. Same great price at £3.00 per portion, same ‘home comfort favourites’ with a vegetarian and meat dish available every day.

Following a new partnership between Warwick Retail and Starbucks, Library Coffee Bar will be serving the Starbucks ‘We Proudly Serve’ range of drinks from Monday 17 February.

The international coffee brand is part of a new retail plan to create a vibrant campus that provides a wide variety of food and drink choices through a balanced mix of University-managed cafes and restaurants and popular high street brands.

Vicki Boyd, Head of Retail Service Operations, said: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Starbucks to bring their much loved coffee and frappuccino offer to campus. This is the latest exciting development in our new retail offer, based on customer research, which aims to offer a broader choice for students and staff to eat and drink”. 

Library Coffee Bar will now be open 7 days a week, 10.30am – 7pm. Don’t forget Café Library is also open 7 days a week serving hot food Monday – Friday and open at the weekend with a coffee shop offer.

Come and visit Library Coffee Bar soon and let our friendly baristas serve your favourite Starbucks drink.

We need to carry out essential online maintenance to the Eating at Warwick and Charge Card accounts on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 January.

During this time there may be some limited functionality, so any money loaded to either account may not be available to spend until the work has been completed.

Our engineers will keep disruption to a minimum, but please have an alternative form of payment such as a credit or debit card when paying for your food and drink.