22/09/2026
A little note from us 🤍
And this one is hard to write.
For 2½ years, we have tried our absolute hearts out to keep our café pricing as low and competitive as we possibly can.
We’ve absorbed increase after increase behind the scenes because we know the cost of living is affecting everyone. We know that your morning coffee, breakfast with a friend or little treat on the way to work all adds up, and increasing our prices was something we’ve genuinely been putting off.
But eventually, the math just stops mathing.
Tomorrow, you’ll notice an increase across our café menu.
There’s one thing I really want to make clear when we talk about rising costs, wage increases and superannuation are worth every damn cent in my eyes. Our staff are the heart and soul of Botanical Style. They are the faces that greet you in the morning, remember your coffee order, ask about your kids, make you laugh and work incredibly hard to make this little place what it is. And goodness me I’ve waited a long time for this perfect little team we have!
They deserve to be paid well. One thousand percent. 🤍
But as a small business, when wages rise alongside super, insurance, electricity, freight, rent, stock, WorkCover and seemingly everything else required just to open the doors each morning, there comes a point where we simply cannot continue absorbing it all.
We’ve reached that point.
And I have one little favour to ask.
Please be kind to our staff.
They don’t set the prices. They haven’t made this decision. So if you have thoughts about the increase, please don’t direct them at the beautiful people standing behind our counter. Direct them at me. The buck stops with me, and I will always happily have that conversation with you.
We don’t expect everyone to understand every decision we make. But I hope you know we haven’t arrived at this one lightly.
Behind Botanical Style isn’t a big corporation or shareholders.
It’s our family.
It’s our beautiful staff.
It’s local jobs.
It’s our suppliers.
And it’s a little business that we’ve poured an enormous amount of ourselves into, while raising a family and navigating fifo life.
We’re doing everything we can to make sure we’re still here serving you for many years to come.
To everyone who continues to walk through our doors, grab a coffee, buy a gift, tell a friend about us or simply cheer us on from the sidelines we thank you.
It means more to a small business now days than you probably realise 🤍
Alix x
