Renewed Fazer Café opens its doors in the Itäkeskus shopping centre in Helsinki
On Friday 17 May 2024, Fazer will open the renewed Fazer Café in the Itäkeskus shopping centre in Helsinki. As usual, Fazer Café Itis offers customers memorable moments consisting of high-quality products and superior customer service in the shopping centre’s market hall.
The renewed café is located in the middle of the shopping centre
itis, one of Finland's largest shopping centres, is already familiar to Fazer Café's customers, as the well-known café has been an integral part of the shopping centre for more than ten years. Now Fazer Café will move to the market hall on the same floor, about 100 metres ahead.
"Itis offers our renewed Fazer Café a great setting in a central location. With the renewal, an even wider range of customers will be able to enjoy our high-quality café products and friendly customer service," says Miika Kostilainen, Managing Director for Fazer Retail Finland and responsible for the Fazer Café operations. "We open already at 7.30 a.m. on weekdays, when we serve a comprehensive breakfast. A fresh salad is an excellent lunch option, and coffee is well accompanied by our delicious shrimp and cold-smoked salmon sandwiches, as well as fresh handmade buns and classic pastries from our own bakery."
Shopping centre Itis attracts approximately 15 million visitors annually. During the past year, the shopping centre has undergone a major renovation and invested especially in experiential services. One of these is the market hall to be opened in the shopping centre. The market hall will be the only one of its kind in Finland.
Fazer Café Itis seats 60 people and is open every day of the week.
The popular Fazer Blue chocolate cake is only available at Fazer Cafés
Fazer Cafés specialise in their own cakes, such as Fazer Blue milk chocolate cake, as well as coffee drinks flavoured with familiar confectionery brands, Fazer Blue Cappuccino and Geisha latte. The beloved Fazer Blue celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2022, and with the anniversary year, the milk chocolate cake became the best-selling cake of all time.
"Our guests appreciate fresh ingredients, good taste and quality. Our popular salad bar is made from high-quality ingredients. We use exclusively hand-peeled shrimp as well as Finnish chicken and rainbow trout. We favour domestic raw materials whenever price, quality and availability allow it. At Fazer Café, you can enjoy a generous breakfast or lunch, traditional baked pastries or buy pre-packaged salads, fresh porridges and smoothies on-the-go. Attentive customer service is a matter of honour for us here, as in our entire chain," Kostilainen continues.
There are already 21 Fazer Cafés in Finland
There are 21 Fazer Cafés in Finland, with the latest opening in March in the Koskikeskus shopping centre in Tampere. Karl Fazer started his French-Russian café on Kluuvikatu in Helsinki 133 years ago. Karl Fazer was a visionary confectioner whose courage and entrepreneurial spirit still inspire Fazer's operations.
In addition to the Helsinki metropolitan area, Fazer Cafés are located in Tampere and Turku.
Fazer Café Itis, Itäkatu 1–7, 00930 Helsinki
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 7.30 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Website: https://www.fazer.fi/fazer-cafe/kahvilat/fazer-cafe-itis/
Further information:
Miika Kostilainen, Managing Director, Fazer Retail Finland, miika.kostilainen@fazer.com, tel. +358 40 486 9832
Taina Lampela-Helin, Communications and PR Manager, Fazer Group,
taina.lampela-helin@fazer.com, tel. +358 40 668 4600
Fazer's media phone line is open on weekdays from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., tel. +358 40 668 2998, media@fazer.com
Print-ready pictures: www.fazergroup.com/fi/medialle - Kuvapankki - Public Image Bank - Media_Press – Finland – Fazer Café Itis, Helsinki
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Fazer Group
Fazer, The Food Experience Company, enables people to enjoy the best moments of their day. Our mission, Food with a purpose, builds on our strong more than 130-year heritage, consumer first approach and innovations to create the sustainable food solutions of the future. With our dedicated team of approximately 5,000 professionals, we focus on fast-moving consumer goods and our direct-to-consumer business in Northern Europe, and beyond with exports to more than 40 countries. Fazer’s operations comply with its Code of Conduct that is based on the Group’s values and the UN Global Compact. In 2023, Fazer Group had net sales of 1,200 million euros.
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