Businesswoman Kim Warren is so crackers for Christmas she has opened Britain's first all-year-round festive café.<br /><br />Kim, 40, sells mince pies, Christmas pudding, fruit cakes and turkey and cranberry sandwiches with all the trimmings whatever the season.<br /><br />The self-confessed Christmas lover opened the Yuletide café as an extension to the Little Christmas Shop which she also runs.<br /><br />Ironically, the only day of the year Kim shuts up shop is December 25 when she puts her feet up with her family at home in Ironbridge, Shrops.<br /><br />Despite having festive tunes blaring all day long she says she and her staff never tire of them and says her favourite is Mariah Carey's classic hit 'All I want for Christmas is You.'<br /><br />The café offers a Christmas themed afternoon tea filled with turkey, brie and cranberry sandwiches with Christmas cake for £24.99.<br /><br />Kim said: “Why not have Christmas all year. Everyone loves Christmas and it’s something different and I thought gap in the market and it worked.<br /><br />“I had a smaller shop and I felt like I needed to expand so I moved to a bigger shop. <br /><br />“I do festive food all year round. This is the first one to do Christmas food and decorations all year round. <br /><br />“We’re serving turkey, mince pies, and Christmas cake. We do adapt a little throughout the year. <br /><br />“We have bakers who do it from scratch.<br /><br />“We’ve been here seven weeks now but the Christmas shop is what we originally started with. <br /><br />“We do more classical jazz music throughout the year and then Christmas music. We do sometimes start playing the favourites. <br /><br />“We don’t really take notice of the music because we’re busy. It’s like white noise. We have our favourites, but we are always on our feet and busy.”<br /><br />Kim says a lot of her customers are tourists and that her business is booming after an emerging trend which sees holiday-makers buying souvenir Christmas presents.<br /><br />She said: “It's very popular, we’ve got a local following so we see repeat tourists. <br /><br />“Back in the day people used to collect magnets and spoons, but now people buy Christmas decorations.<br /><br />"We opened the shop three years ago and people said we wouldn't last five minutes.<br /><br />"But they love us. There is a trend to get a Christmas present from wherever you go, so we have the tourists who come to Ironbridge and locals who visit regularly, too.<br /><br />"I did not think I would grow out of the old shop but we did. People love it here, they come in and film the place for their social media."<br /><br />She reveals her secret to keeping her pigs and blankets fully stocked is to think ahead and order all her stock in January. <br /><br />Kim added: “You have to just be very, very organised. Everything gets ordered in January, we try to support small independents. <br /><br />“It’s something different, no one has got that in the UK. <br /><br />“People still come down here on holiday and all the tourists come in.<br /><br />“Our biggest seller is a local wooden tree that’s made from the local wood. It’s handmade by a local man called Mike.<br /><br />“In the festive tea room our best seller is our festive afternoon tea.”
