Coffee Culture Timaru is located at 306 Stafford Street in Timaru, one of the wider Coffee Culture group of stores across the South Island. It's owned and operated by Ambar Watts and her husband Matt, with Ambar recently awarded Coffee Culture Leader of the Year for 2023 for leading the team from strength to strength.
The store promises the same super-friendly service, delicious food and fantastic coffee found across the Coffee Culture brand, whether that's a quick coffee on the run, a relaxing lunch, an afternoon break, or an after-dinner treat. It's open every day until 9pm.
Like other Coffee Culture stores, Timaru offers free wifi, food available in-store, and the ability to order ahead by text through the brand's Textpresso service.
On Stafford Street in the heart of Timaru, Coffee Culture Timaru brings the same super-friendly service, delicious food and fantastic coffee that the brand is known for across the South Island, just in a different town. The store is owned and operated by Ambar Watts, together with her husband Matt.
Ambar has led the Timaru team from strength to strength, and that work was recognised when she was awarded Coffee Culture Leader of the Year for 2023 — a mark of the standard the store holds itself to across service and team culture.
The team is described as passionate about top-notch service, whatever the reason for the visit. Whether it's a quick coffee on the run, a relaxing lunch, an afternoon break, or an after-dinner treat, the Timaru store is set up to cover it, staying open every day until 9pm.
Coffee Culture Timaru is one of more than twenty stores in the group, spanning locations from Addington and Ashburton through to Wanaka and Lyttelton. Across the brand, Coffee Culture places a strong emphasis on its coffee itself, roasting beans in-house and running an internal E.S.P. programme to train staff in pulling the perfect espresso.
Like other stores in the group, Coffee Culture Timaru offers free wifi for anyone wanting to work or browse over a coffee, with food available alongside the drinks menu. Customers can also order ahead using the brand's Textpresso service, texting through an order to have it ready for pickup, and regulars can join the Culturecard scheme for ongoing rewards across any Coffee Culture location.
Across the group, Coffee Culture stores are open 364 days a year, often from as early as 6am and through until late — more than 111,384 hours of trading annually across all stores combined. The Timaru store's specific hours run from 7am on weekdays and 8am on weekends, both through to 9pm.
Coffee Culture also positions its stores as a place to build a hospitality career, offering staff training, a small business management course, and Christmas parties, with a clear pathway from crew member through to leadership or even ownership through the brand's franchising programme, much like the path that led Ambar and Matt to owning the Timaru store themselves.
Whether it's a coffee on the go, a lunch stop, or an evening treat, Coffee Culture Timaru offers the reliable, community-focused experience the Coffee Culture brand has built its name on, run locally by an award-winning owner-operator team.