New Cornish Bakery site sees ‘record’ trading in opening week

Cornish Bakery’s 65th opening in Milton Keynes has “surpassed all expectations”, taking a record-breaking £40k within its first week of trading. 

It comes as the new bakery opened to “unprecedented” demand, causing a queue of people to block the main flow of the shopping centre. Both the centre:mk and Cornish Bakery teams had to devise a new roped ‘airport style’ queuing system outside of the bakery to manage operations.  

At 200 sq metres, the new Milton Keynes bakery is the largest opening for the independent chain this year and occupies a “key cornerstone” location within the “premium, style-driven” centre:mk shopping destination. 

The branch has already achieved an average score of 4.5 on Trip Advisors, with customers “constantly” commenting on fresh pastries, pasties “full of flavour”, and the attitude of the friendly and helpful staff. 

Mat Finch, managing director of Cornish Bakery, said: “We all knew that Milton Keynes, with its significant scale of space, was going to be a successful opening for us. But even we weren’t quite expecting the extreme runaway success of the first week alone. 

“Our first week sales were well in excess of £40k – yet another record breaking result in the record breaking year that has seen us surpass sales of over £1m per week, and enter the Top 100 of all fast-growth retail companies in the UK.” 

The Milton Keynes opening follows a series of successful launches in Taunton, Chelmsford and Winchester – all of which have also exceeded expectations and hit sales targets. 

Cornish Bakery is currently in the final stages of the build and renovation work for the next location, which will open in Cirencester in January 2025.