A delicatessen and cafe started by two friends in a Stirlingshire village is spreading across central Scotland after the owners decided to franchise out their brand.
Friends Sue Berits and Peter Brown set up their first shop, selling Scottish food and drink as well as wine and fresh coffee, in Kippen in 2004.
A fifth Berits & Brown store has just opened its doors in Edinburgh and the pair are hopeful the brand could be reaching a “critical mass” that will allow it to expand at a faster rate.
Berits, who worked in management before taking a career break to have children, said she and Brown originally thought that a franchising model would be too expensive, but a company called The Franchise Doctors approached them and persuaded them that it was possible.