RoadChef make much of their Costa Coffee franchise and claim it has increased sales significantly.
Other competitors include the Luigi Lavazza run Barista Lavazza chain and Whitbread operated Costa Coffee stores.
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Cafe Coffee Day is the market leader in cafe outlets, followed by Barista and Costa Coffee.
This comes after a succession of venue announcements with partners like Costa Coffee, House of Fraser and McDonald's.
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Coffee Republic, along with Starbucks, Costa Coffee, and Caffee Nero, makes up the "Big Four" UK coffee bar chains.
Chiltern Railways wants to put a new Costa Coffee shop in place as part of a redevelopment of the concourse.
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The next week, Prince William happened to open the door to leave the Costa Coffee cafe the exact moment I was walking by.
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Some residents in a Devon town which forced Costa Coffee to abandon plans for a cafe have said they were not represented in the row.
Plans for a new Costa Coffee shop on Gloucester Road in Bristol will sound the "death knell" for the area, according to a 3, 000-name petition.
The announcement comes amid growing competition in the coffee bar market, where the likes of Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Coffee Republic are also attempting to grab market shares.
The Costa Coffee chain, part of Whitbread which also owns Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Premier Inn, wants to open a shop in an empty Victorian building in King Street.
In October Costa Coffee abandoned plans for the Fore Street cafe, which had been approved by South Hams District Council, after No To Costa collected more than 5, 000 signatures against it.
Residents and business owners against the chain moving to the town are hoping to replicate the success of campaigners in Totnes, Devon, where Costa Coffee abandoned plans for a new branch.
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Two businesses in the city took part in the project - Bagelman on Bond Street and Costa Coffee on London Road - and gave permission for their side walls to be used.
In the past decade, Costa Rica went from producing 2.3 million bags of coffee each growing season to 1.5 million bags, and the number of acres cultivated with coffee dropped from 247, 000 to 212, 000 or less over that time, said Ronald Peters, the president of the Costa Rican Coffee Institute.
Cantin has moved his family to a coffee plantation in Costa Rica.
Back at his small artisan factory, Il Gusto della Costa, Valentino brews some lemon coffee: dark espresso with two thin slices of peel in the pot.
The entrance of Starbucks, an American chain, into the Indian coffee market follows other international coffee brands such as Costa, Gloria Jeans, and Lavazza which has bought into Indian chain Barista.
No To Costa spent three months petitioning against the planned coffee shop, which was due to take one of the larger retail spaces in the town.
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Many Costa Ricans work in traditional industries, such as bananas, coffee and other sorts of farming.
Last month, Starbucks announced the purchase of its first coffee farm, a verdant 600-acre property in the Costa Rican mountains.
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