Open a Diggers in your town

A proven cafe. A working platform. Yours.

Diggers is a remote-control construction cafe — kids climb into the seat of a real RC digger, truck or wheel loader while parents drink decent coffee. We run the booking platform, the EPOS, the memberships, the gallery, the lot. You run the building.

Run the numbers Apply to open one

What you get

We do the boring bits.

Bookings + Stripe
Customers book online, pay online, get a QR check-in code by email and SMS. We handle Stripe as merchant of record.
EPOS for the cafe
Full-width till for food and drink with categories, products, sales reports. Cash or card, kept simple.
Memberships
Recurring monthly Stripe subscriptions for repeat-discount customers. Auto-applied at checkout.
Gift vouchers
Customers buy on your site or you create comp vouchers from the admin. Balance tracked, partial redemption supported.
Site + content
Marketing site, gallery, hero video, brand assets, opening hours, FAQ — all editable from your dashboard.
Reports + ops
Today’s schedule, vehicle utilisation, demand heatmaps, customer profiles, audit log, rotas.

Run the numbers

Revenue calculator

Move the sliders. The platform fee is 15% of gross (sessions andF&B), nothing else. F&B is modelled at £5/head average spend per visiting customer.

Vehicles12

How many physical machines on the floor.

Sessions per vehicle / day8

Theoretical capacity. 8 hours open ÷ 30-min sessions ≈ 16; realistic 6–10.

Average ticket£20

Typical price paid per seat across all session lengths.

Days open per week5

A 5-day week is the most common starting point.

Utilisation70%

Percentage of available slots that get booked. 50–70% is realistic in steady state.

Monthly gross

£36,400

1,456 sessions × £20 + £5/head F&B

Sessions revenue

£29,120

F&B revenue

£7,280

Platform fee (15%)

−£5,460

Net to franchisee

£30,940

Annualised

Gross: £436,800
Fee (15%): −£65,520
Net: £371,280

Indicative only. Real figures vary by territory, ticket mix, opening hours, F&B menu, marketing spend and seasonality. Excludes rent, payroll, electricity, vehicle maintenance, and stock cost. We’ll run a proper model with you on the site visit.

How it works

Five steps to opening day.

01
Apply
Tell us about you, your town, your unit. We reply within a week.
02
Site visit
We visit, talk numbers, agree the right vehicle count for your space.
03
Set up
We spin up your tenant: domain, brand, schedule, vehicles, integrations. ~60 seconds in our wizard.
04
Stock + train
Order machines + cafe stock through our supplier list. We train your team on the EPOS and ops.
05
Launch
Booking opens. We market the launch with you. You start banking.

Apply

Want to open one?

Drop us a line with your town, the unit you have in mind, and a sentence about why. We’ll come back within a week.

franchise@diggers.cafe

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