Your Café Is Already Open. Now It’s Time to Grow It.

Most café franchises ask you to start from an empty shell. This one hands you the keys to a café that’s already trading — fitted out, staffed, trained and open for business at The Palms in Christchurch.

Buying a café franchise usually means months of groundwork before you ever pour a coffee for a paying customer: finding a site, managing a fit-out, hiring a team, running training, and building awareness from zero. Yes, the franchisor usually helps, buts it’s still a lot of work. At Gloria Jean’s Coffees – The Palms, that entire phase is already behind you.

The café has been designed, built and opened by the franchisor. The fit-out is complete. The team is recruited and trained. The pre-opening marketing has been done. The doors are open and the till is ringing. What’s on offer isn’t a concept on paper – it’s a running business, ready for an owner-operator to step in and take it further.

A Global Coffee Brand, Built on Flavour and Connection

Gloria Jean’s Coffees is a well-established international café brand with a long track record in coffee, beverages and café-style hospitality. It’s known for a broad and popular drinks menu – espresso coffee, hot drinks, Chillers, over-ice beverages and specialty flavours, backed by a complementary food range.

Franchisees join a global network built around flavour, quality and genuine customer connection, and benefit from established systems, brand standards, training, marketing support, product innovation and ongoing operational guidance.

Why The Palms?

The Palms is one of Christchurch’s best-known shopping destinations, drawing strong, consistent foot traffic across retail, food and services. Gloria Jean’s has established a café here in a kiosk format purpose-built for the centre environment.

The café is already open and building sales revenue, which means an incoming franchisee isn’t gambling on an unproven site. You’re taking over at an exciting early stage, with the chance to shape the next chapter rather than lay the first brick.

Skip the Start-Up Stage, Focus on Growth

Instead of managing site works, construction, initial recruitment and a launch campaign, an incoming franchisee can put their energy straight into what matters most: growing the business. Building local customer relationships. Driving repeat visits. Lifting sales. Making the café their own.

Training and Ongoing Support

Before taking over, incoming franchisees complete Gloria Jean’s franchise training. From there, you’re backed by an established brand, proven operating systems, a trusted product range, existing supplier relationships and a genuine support structure behind you.

This opportunity suits someone ready to be hands-on, lead a small team, and actively build the café’s presence within The Palms and across the wider Christchurch market.

Is This the Right Opportunity for You?

This role suits an owner-operator who wants the backing of a recognised franchise brand – but who also sees the value in joining a café that’s already open and trading. Previous café ownership isn’t essential, but you should be customer-focused, energetic, commercially minded, and happy to follow a proven system.

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Enjoy working with people and building genuine customer relationships
• Are prepared to be hands-on in the café, day to day
• Want the backing and credibility of an established franchise brand
• Value training, systems and real operational support
• Are motivated to grow a newly opened café business
• Like the idea of stepping into a running site rather than starting from scratch

The Investment

The ingoing cost for the café, including franchise and training costs, is $340,000.

Further detail is available to qualified prospective franchisees as part of the enquiry and approval process. Gloria Jean’s is also committed to setting the right franchise partner up for success, with the potential for a staged franchise fee structure to help support local store marketing and drive early growth.

A Strong Start, With Plenty of Room to Grow

Gloria Jean’s Coffees – The Palms brings together a recognised global coffee brand, a proven shopping centre location and a newly opened café that’s already building sales. The foundations are laid. What happens next is up to you.

Want to know more? Get in touch today to find out more about Gloria Jean’s Coffees at The Palms.