Save up to £1 on your takeaway coffee – while saving the planet
Many of us regularly reach for a cup of coffee or tea to give us a caffeine boost, but if you’re out and about and can't bring a thermos from home, the cost of this can quickly mount up.
You can cut the cost though, and save up to £1 on every takeaway drink served by the barista – teas, coffees etc – EVERY time by providing your own reusable cup with a secure lid at certain coffee chains. Of course, you’ll be helping the environment too.
Where does it work?
- Pure – £1 off. Bring your own cup to London-based café and coffee shop Pure and you'll get £1 off barista made drinks.
- Pret A Manger – 50p off. At all Pret stores (increased from 25p off in 2018), including cold drinks.
- Paul – 50p off. Paul offers 50p off when you bring your own cup.
- M&S café – 50p off. If you bring your own cup to an M&S café you'll get 50p off any takeaway hot drink.
- Greggs – 25p off. If you bring your own cup, you’ll get 25p off any hot drink. If you join Greggs rewards you’ll receive more offers, such as a free birthday cupcake. See our Birthday Freebies page for more free birthday treats and discounts.
- Starbucks – 25p (30p) off. Redeem at any Starbucks store or counter. The discount's 25p but it normally charges an extra 5p per disposable cup (so in total you can save 30p with your own cup).
- New. Eurostar trains – 50p off. Bring your reusable cup to Brussels or Paris, or anywhere else Eurostar services run and you'll be able to get 50p off hot drinks from the on-board café.
- New. LNER trains – 25p off. If you bring your own cup onboard an LNER service (trains run from London Kings Cross to Leeds, York, Edinburgh, and Inverness) you can get 25p off hot drinks when you use it.
- New. Knoops – 20p off. Available at 16 UK locations, including Edinburgh, Manchester, Covent Garden, and Brighton if your preference is a hot chocolate, mocha, or milkshake as these are Knoops specialties.
- Caffè Nero – extra stamp. If you bring your own cup, you’ll an extra loyalty card stamp. Normally you’d have to buy nine drinks to get the 10th free, but with this offer you’d only have to buy five. See our blog on How to get 50+ free drinks a year using this 'deal stack'.
- Costa Coffee – extra bean stamp. If you're a member of the Costa Club app, every time you use a reusable cup you'll get one extra 'bean' on the app to put towards a free drink when you have ten. It's not as good as the previous 25p discount which was removed on 30 Sep 2021, but if Costa's your coffee choice it could be worth it for you as you'd get a free drink after buying five with your reusable cup, instead of ten.
Note: some local coffee shops may have similar offers, but as we can't check and list them all it's worth asking politely if you can still get a reusable cup discount.
Is buying a drink at these stores MoneySaving?
It might not be considered to be frugal, but if you're meeting up with a friend for a chat over a takeaway cuppa in the park, it might not be something you should consider cutting from your budget. If you're not able to bring a thermos of tea or coffee from home (see our demotivator tool to see how much you could save if you can) this is a decent trick to nab a discount while helping the environment at the same time.
Free tea and coffee
See our free tea and coffee page if you’d like to stack your reusable cup with free or discounted hot drinks discounts.
Where do you use your reusable cup? Let us know on X (Twitter).
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