FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Summer Special News Release
June 30, 2009
Take 5 Café™
It’s Summer and the Coffees, Frappinis and Smoothies are “Deliciously
Delectable and Affordable” at Seven Take 5 Café™ Locations
Across Metro Vancouver
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—June 30, 2009—Take 5 Café™, a local award-winning European coffee house and homemade Italian foods eatery, is celebrating summer with an array of coffees, frappinis and all fruit smoothies that are refreshing and affordable.

Take 5 Café offers its customers 100% Specialty Grade Arabica Coffees that are exclusively selected and roasted in small batches for the company. This special “small batch” roasting process ensures a taste profile that is in line with a coffee’s true cup character. Available at all seven Take 5 Café locations across Metro Vancouver, coffee aficionados will enjoy and arrangement of Italian inspired artisan and custom blend coffees ranging in price from $1.69 for a small drip coffee to $4.09 for a large latte. Coffees include:

    • The Mediterranean - a flavourful and satisfying medium roast coffee highlighted with exotic Kenya AA’s.
    • The Venetian - a full bodied, dark roast coffee with slightly sweet and volcanic overtones.
    • When in Rome - a custom espresso that exhibits a wonderful balance between its syrupy body, sweet profile and silky smooth finish.
    • Tuscan Sun - a decaffeinated espresso that is Certified Organic and Swiss Water Processed.

Take 5 Café’s coffees are sourced from some of the finest micro growing climates around the world. Each bean is carefully examined for its overall quality and consistency in both the growing and milling process. Once selected, Take 5 Café’s team of coffee experts ensures the coffee conforms to the company’s high quality standards.

“Additionally, Take 5 Café’s coffee bean roasting plant is a sustainable facility located in Delta that has taken major steps to becoming carbon neutral. The plant is certified by internationally accredited agencies including the Organic Crop Improvement Agency (OCIA), Fair Trade (Transfair), Certified Responsible (Utz Certified), Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Bird Friendly (SMBC) and Swiss Water Processed (SWP).

For Vancouverites looking for a “cooler and sweeter” beverage, Take 5 Café offers Cream Frappinis—a blend of milk, ice and delicious flavours—that range in price from a small at $3.59, medium at $4.09, and large at $5.09. The most popular Cream Frappini flavours include: vanilla cream, caramel cream, strawberry cream, chai cream and chocolate Milano cream. While, popular combinations of Coffee Frappinis include: coffee caramel frappini, chocolate Milano frappini and white chocolate frappini.

About Take 5 Café™

Take 5 Café™ is an award-winning local European coffee house and homemade Italian foods eatery with seven locations across Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. Take 5 Café offers a family-style atmosphere where people can enjoy gourmet beverages, wholesome foods and free wireless access at every location. Menu items include coffees, frappinis, smoothies, healthy breakfast, gourmet sandwiches/paninis, wraps, salads, baked pastas and desserts. All foods are made fresh in the Take 5 Café Central Kitchen in Vancouver and delivered daily to each store. Catering for events and business meetings is available for next day delivery or same day pick up at all Take 5 Café locations. For more information, please visit www.take5cafe.com.

Media Contact:
Kristin Treat, 604.761.9946
Sparrow Marketing Communications
kristin@sparrowbc.com