New Café Creates Jobs at Market Harborough Railway Station

Passengers using Market Harborough Railway Station once again have somewhere to grab food and drink.

The Flying Bean Café has opened in the vacant café unit, which has been empty for more than a year, and is creating a number of jobs.

Will Barton and Maria Cresswell from The Flying Bean cafe

Operations Manager Will Barton told HFM today’s opening has been well received:

The café is part of the Flying Bean chain, which is owned by Tom Allen, the brother of former Leicester Tigers player and assistant coach Anthony Allen, who lives near Market Harborough.

Anthony alerted his brother to the vacant station site after the previous café closed, prompting Tom to begin negotiations with East Midlands Railway to take it on.

A mobile coffee bar operated by Flying Bean is also due to start serving passengers from a converted horsebox in the station car park, beside the London-bound platform, within the next few weeks.

The cafe is open from 5.30am until 6pm Monday to Friday, 7am til 5pm on Saturday and 8am til 4pm on Sunday.