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{{Infobox
|colour = #000000
|font = #ffffff
|name = Wild Bean Café
|image = Michaelwood BP Connect.jpg
|gallery = Wild Bean Cafe
|locations = msas
|associated = [[BP]], [[#History|BP Connect]], [[M&S Simply Food]]
|introduced = 2001
|predecessors = [[WHSmith|BP Shop]], [[Burger King]], [[Costa]], [[Costa Express]]
|successors = [[MRH|BP Shop]], [[Costa Express]], [[Shell|Welcome Break's Deli2go]]
|website = bp.com/en_gb/united-kingdom/products-services/wild-bean-cafe.html
|openinghours = All motorway sites are open 24 hours
|twitter = BP_UK
|country = UK
}}

'''Wild Bean Café''' is BP's [[own brand]] of coffee shop, often found in filling stations at motorway services alongside [[BP#BP Connect|BP Connect]] or [[M&S Simply Food]].

The Wild Bean Café range is more significant in stores which are not branded as M&S Simply Food and includes varieties of sandwiches and wraps, something that the cafés within M&S Simply Food stores don't offer.

==History==
Wild Bean Café was first founded in 2000 alongside '''BP Connect'''. These two brands were created as [[BP Express|BP]] had inherited several independent filling stations, and found it more profitable to include a different branded store and a small café at each site instead of an unnamed shop and self-service coffee machine.

By having a café with staff rather than just a self-service machine, BP could charge more for each item. This trial was deemed successful and Wild Bean Café can now be found at over 400 BP filling stations in the UK.

In 2006, BP improved this offering by trialling [[franchise|franchised]] [[M&S Simply Food]] stores at eleven of their sites, which was later extended. Today, there are over 250 M&S stores alongside Wild Bean Café units.

At both filling stations at [[Rownhams]] in 2013, BP introduced Wild Bean Café Express machines, the first and only in the country.

Wild Bean Café went on to inspire [[Coffee Tempo!]].

==Locations==
Wild Bean Café operate at some services. They are: {{viewonamap}}

* [[Annandale Water]] (A74(M))
* [[Clacket Lane]] (M25)
* [[Heart of Scotland]] (M8)
* [[Killington Lake]] (M6)
* [[Michaelwood]] (M5)
* [[Northampton]] (M1/A43)
* [[Norton Canes]] (M6 Toll)
* [[Reading]] (M4)
* [[Rownhams|Rownhams (express)]] (M27)
* [[Sandbach]] (M6)
* [[South Mimms]] (M25/A1(M)/A1)
* [[Stafford (North)|Stafford]] (M6) ''(northbound only)''
* [[Strensham]] (M5) ''(southbound only)'' 
* [[Todhills]] (M6) ''(southbound only)'' 
* [[Watford Gap]] (M1)
* [[Winchester]] (M3)

===A-road Services===
* [[Acle]] (A47)
* [[Ashington]] (A24)
* [[Astwick]] (A1) ''(northbound only)''
* [[Beckington]] (A36/A361)
* [[Bedford]] (A6/A421)
* [[Besthorpe]] (A11)
* [[Brackley]] (A43)
* [[Brampton Hut]] (A1/A14)
* [[Breakspears]] (A414) ''(westbound only)''
* [[The Buck]] (A303)
* [[Buckland]] (A420)
* [[Budbrooke]] (A46)
* [[Calcutt]] (A419) ''(southbound only)''
* [[Chelmsford]] (A12) 
* [[Chippenham]] (A350)
* [[Colchester]] (A12)
* [[Cross Keys]] (A38)
* [[Didcot]] (A34)
* [[Ely]] (A10)
* [[Emsworth]] (A27) ''(westbound only)''
* [[Family Farm]] (A34) ''(northbound only)''
* [[Farnham]] (A31)
* [[Kettering]] (A14)
* [[Littleport]] (A10)
* [[Market Harborough]] (A6)
* [[Martlesham Heath]] (A12)
* [[Monkton]] (A77)
* [[Newmarket]] (A11/A14)
* [[Panners]] (A120)
* [[Petersfield]] (A3)
* [[Pevensey]] (A27)
* [[Popham]] (A303) ''(westbound only)''
* [[Pyecombe]] (A23) ''(southbound only)''
* [[Raunds]] (A45)
* [[Rhoswiel]] (A5) ''(southbound only)''
* [[Ripley]] (A3)
* [[Shenfield]] (A12)
* [[South Queensferry]] (A90)
* [[Stanford-le-Hope]] (A13)
* [[Stansted]] (A120)
* [[Stonebridge]] (A45)
* [[Towcester]] (A43)
* [[Tunbridge Wells]] (A21)
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