Yes, coffee shops and cafe websites that use cookies or other internet tracking technologies should have a cookie consent banner that pops up when new users land on the site.
Your customers can come from anywhere, which means privacy laws might apply to your coffee shop’s website.
Whether they’re looking at your site to browse your menu, order online, or ship a bag of roasted beans to their home, cafe websites typically collect, process, and use personal data that needs to be properly managed.
Why Do Coffee Shops and Cafe Websites Need a Cookie Consent Banner?
Cafes and coffee shop websites can easily fall under data privacy laws, and adding a cookie consent banner to your site can help you align with several tricky legal requirements.
Laws like the GDPR might apply depending on factors like where your cafe is located and where your coffee shop’s website customers come from.
These laws give your customers the right to opt into or out of different types of cookies and other trackers and presenting them with a properly configured cookie banner keeps you in line with these obligations in an affordable, fast, and easy manner.
What Cookies or Trackers Do Cafe/Coffee Shop Website Use?
Coffee shop and cafe websites typically use internet cookies and other trackers. See the most common types used by these websites in the table below.
| Types of Cookies/Trackers | What They Do | Consent Banner Required? |
| Online ordering/delivery integrations | Tracks customer cart persistence, order tracking, and their sessions across order flows. Usually done through third-party platforms like Toast, Square, Clover, or ChowNow or deliver integrations like Uber Eats and DoorDash. | Yes |
| Loyalty programs/CRM tracking | Remembers customer logins and rewards balances, tracks purchases tied to their accounts. May be done through third party platforms like email marketing tackers from Mailchimp or Klaviyo. | Yes |
| Social media/embedded content | Tracks customer engagement with embedded posts and loads external scripts or sets cookies. Social sharing buttons can track customer interactions even without clicking. These are very common for coffee shops relying on visual branding. | Yes |
| Marketing/advertising cookies | Tracks customer conversions, ad performance, remarketing, and retargeting ads typically through third-party platforms like Meta Pixel, Google Ads, or TikTok Pixel, which is increasing in use. | Yes |
| Analytics/performance trackers | Tracks customers’ page visits and traffic sources. Can be through third-party platforms like Google Analytics or Tag Manager, and is commonly used, even by smaller independent cafes. | Yes |
| Local SEO/map integration trackers | Tracks customer interactions with loaded map data and other store locator tools, often through third party embeds with tools like Google Maps and is very specific to brick-and-mortar cafes. | Yes |
| Session cookies | These keep customers logged into accounts, maintain their cart items for online ordering, and enable delivery and payment processing systems. | Sometimes |
| Essential/strictly necessary cookies | These helps websites function properly and include keeping users logged in and maintaining cart items for online ordering | No |
How Do I Make a Cookie Banner for my Coffee Shop’s Website?
Making a cookie banner for your coffee shop is incredibly easy with tools like Termly’s Consent Banner Generator.
It’s lightweight, easy to use, and affordable. You can design it to match your coffee shop’s branding and colors and set it up to align with opt-in and opt-out requirements outlined by privacy laws like the GDPR, the CCPA, and more.
It has essential features like regional consent settings, script autoblocking, a preference center, cookie policy, consent logs, and more.
You’re the coffee expert, let Termly take care of cookie consent banner management for you so you can keep making the best brew in town.
Written by Amanda Lee
Amanda is a Documentation Specialist and Certified Privacy Professional (US). She converts product documentation into easily understood product for Termly's customers. She also has strong understanding of US privacy laws and regulations, helping to keep customer policies up to date at a time when US states are enacting more and more privacy laws.
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Reviewed by Masha Komnenic CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP
Masha Komnenic is a legal counsel and Termly’s Director of Global Privacy, who received her law degree from Belgrade University. She specializes in implementing, monitoring, and auditing business compliance with privacy regulations (HIPAA, PIPEDA, ePrivacy Directive, GDPR, CCPA, POPIA, LGPD).
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