For quick handover at a car boot sale, individually packaged, ready-to-drink cold brew involves less preparation at the stall than concentrate. Concentrate is an option if you can measure and mix each drink, but first establish whether ‘240’ means sealed units or prepared servings, then confirm the exact product’s pack quantity and directions. A larger bag-in-box format needs its own supply and serving checks.
A ready-to-drink can keeps preparation away from the stall and lets customers see its original label. Marks & Spencer lists its Classic Latte Cold Brew Coffee as a 250ml ready-to-drink product; check the quantity available to order rather than treating a single can as evidence of a catering case.
Concentrate suits a stall set up to measure, dilute and serve each drink. Tesco lists a 500ml cold-brew concentrate, but the serving plan must follow that exact product’s directions, including its storage and ingredient information.
A bag-in-box puts the drink in a larger container with a tap rather than individual cans. Amazon UK’s listing describes a Sandows 3L format but marks it unavailable, so confirm a supplier and the product’s handling instructions before planning around it.
Define the number of packaged drinks or prepared servings you intend to offer, then choose a service format you can manage at the stall.
| Priority | What to check | Your needs |
|---|---|---|
| Order quantity | Specify whether 240 means sealed drinks, coffee bags or servings after dilution. Confirm the supplier’s case contents and use only the chosen concentrate’s own directions to calculate servings. | I need a count I can order against, rather than assuming a box size or treating concentrate volume as a serving count. |
| Service method | Marks & Spencer lists a ready-to-drink 250ml Classic Latte; Tesco lists a 500ml cold-brew concentrate. Check whether you can provide the water, measuring and serving equipment needed for a drink mixed at the stall. | If customers are collecting a sealed drink, I want to hand it over without mixing. If I am preparing drinks, I need a workable serving setup. |
| Ingredients and labels | Read the exact product’s ingredients and allergen information. Marks & Spencer describes semi-skimmed milk in its Classic Latte; keep the current product information accessible when serving. | Customers should be able to check what is in the drink, particularly when the option I stock contains milk. |
| Storage and dispensing | Check the chosen product’s storage directions, including any instructions for after opening. For a dispenser, establish how it will be carried, set up and served. | I need a format I can transport and serve in line with its own instructions throughout the event. |
| Trading arrangements | Check the organiser’s requirements and ask the relevant local authority whether your activity needs food-business registration. Include any drink preparation in your food-safety arrangements. | Before selling, I want to know which requirements apply to my stall and how I will manage the drinks I serve. |
Marks & Spencer’s 250ml can, Tesco’s 500ml concentrate and the Sandows 3L bag-in-box are different ways of supplying drinks. None of those pack descriptions establishes a 240-unit case or a 240-serving yield.
Tell the supplier whether you mean individual sealed drinks, coffee bags or finished servings, and ask for the actual case contents before ordering.
MONIN UK gives a recipe using 25ml of its own concentrate. That does not establish the dilution ratio or serving yield of Tesco Finest Unsweetened Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate.
Use the directions for the exact concentrate you buy before calculating how many drinks it will make.
Marks & Spencer’s Classic Latte contains semi-skimmed milk. Food Standards Agency and GOV.UK event guidance sets out name, ingredient and emphasised-allergen information requirements for prepacked and prepacked-for-direct-sale foods.
Keep the current packaging or legible product information available so customers can check the drink you are offering.
Food Standards Agency and GOV.UK guidance for England, Wales and Northern Ireland says selling or handling food can make an operator a food business; the nature and frequency of an event matter to the local assessment. Food Standards Scotland says food businesses in Scotland must register with their local authority.
Ask the event organiser and the relevant local authority before trading. Where registration applies, the cited official guidance calls for it at least 28 days before starting.
Marks & Spencer lists Classic Latte Cold Brew Coffee as a 250ml ready-to-drink product.
Tesco Groceries lists Finest Unsweetened Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate 500ml and Finest Brown Sugar Cold Brew Latte 250ml.
Amazon UK describes Sandows Original Cold Brew Coffee in a 3L bag-in-box with a tap.
Waitrose & Partners lists coffee bags in its coffee sachets category, including 10-count and 15-count packs.
Sainsbury’s coffee category includes an iced-coffee subcategory.
This Joybuy option is a portioned cold-brew coffee liquid to mix at the stall, not a sealed ready-to-drink can. Its stated pack of 10 pouches does not itself meet a request for 240 individually packaged units or establish a 240-serving case.
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The individually portioned liquid suits a stall where drinks can be mixed to order rather than handed over ready to drink. The pack is labelled as 10 pouches of 25ml each; check the product’s mixing and ingredient instructions and confirm the order quantity needed for your event.
Not by itself: 240 could describe sealed drinks, coffee bags or servings made after dilution. Specify the unit you need and ask the supplier to confirm the product’s case contents or stated serving instructions before ordering.
Registration depends on whether your activity is treated as a food business. Food Standards Agency and GOV.UK guidance says selling or handling food can make an operator a food business in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; Food Standards Scotland says food businesses in Scotland must register. Ask the relevant local authority about your activity and location before trading; where registration applies, the cited guidance calls for it at least 28 days before starting.
Keep the exact drink’s current packaging or legible product information available. Food Standards Agency and GOV.UK event guidance requires the food name and a full ingredients list with mandated allergens emphasised for prepacked and prepacked-for-direct-sale foods; this matters for Marks & Spencer’s Classic Latte, which contains semi-skimmed milk.
Do not rely on the drink name alone: check the exact product’s ingredient and allergen label. Marks & Spencer describes semi-skimmed milk in its Classic Latte; a different product needs its own label check before you describe it to customers avoiding milk.
No. Use the chosen product’s own dilution instructions to calculate yield. MONIN UK’s recipe is for its concentrate and cannot establish how many drinks Tesco’s 500ml cold-brew concentrate will make.