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Coffee Lovers: Cast Your Vote

Café lovers, you could WIN $1,000 just by voting for your favourite café. Search for your go-to spot,, cast your vote, and let us know why they deserve to win. By voting, you’ll help celebrate the cafés that bring heart and flavour to your community. The more you vote, the more chances you have to win!

We’re on the hunt for the best cafés across the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay, Scenic West, Northern NSW, and Greater Brisbane. Let your voice be heard, and support your favourite café!

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Cafés Must Register to Participate!

This competition is open to all cafes across South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales, but café owners and managers must register on this site to be in the running to win.  Spread the word and encourage your favourite café to register now.    This is your chance to return the daily love you receive from your local.

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Settle the Debate: Who is the Best?

It’s time to settle the debate—who will win the Best Cafe in your postcode? Rally your friends and cast your vote daily for your favourite café, starting November 4! Each vote helps them rise on the leaderboard, and you can spread the word to get even more people involved.

After you’ve voted, don’t forget to post about it on social media and tag your favourite café! Encourage your friends to do the same by tagging them in your post, and help your café gain even more votes. The more people who join in, the better the chances of your favourite spot claiming the title!

Track their progress on the leaderboard and show your love for the café that serves your daily brew. Support your local favourites!

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District Finalists Revealed

We’ll announce the winning cafés for each district across our six regions —for example, the Wide Bay region is divided into three districts: Gympie, Fraser Coast, and Bundaberg. The café with the most votes in each district will move forward as a finalist for the overall regional winner. These district winners represent the heart and soul of their communities, and they’ll compete for the top spot in their region.

District winners will be announced on November 26.

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Celebrate the Winners!

Your votes don’t just support your favourite café—they help decide which local café will be crowned the Best Café 2024 in your region!

As the district winners move on to the grand finale, they’ll be competing for just under $15,000 in prizes, and you get to be a part of their journey to success! On December 2, the regional winners will be announced at The Coffee Commune in Brisbane, and it’s all thanks to the support of people like you. So cast your vote, rally your friends, and help your favourite café claim the title they deserve!

This is your chance to celebrate the cafés that unite your community—why wouldn’t you want your favourite to win?

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The Rules

Eligibility

This competition is to reward and recognise the amazing work done by cafes in our local community.  We have had to limit what is a cafe for the purposes of this competition:

  1. Must be from a fixed physical location, that has been in business in its current form for at least 3 months and is and open to the general public at the time of the nomination and throughout the awards program.  The location must be open at least 4 hours a day for at least 4 days per week
  2. Cafes, as defined for the purpose of the Awards Program, are establishments primarily focused on serving and preparing coffee-based beverages, along with a menu of light refreshments or food items.
  3. Businesses that serve coffee but it is supplementary to their primary business are not eligible – this includes Petrol Stations, Fast Food, Corner stores, Bars, Hairdressers, Hardware stores.  This applies even if the café is a separate part within the main business.
  4. Businesses identified as Restaurants are not eligible for the Awards Program. The overall nature of the business will be considered, factors impacting if a business is a restaurant instead of a café include:  Extent of focus on food vs coffee; preparation and service of full meals; variety of menu options; full table service; formality of dining environment; emphasis on lunch and dinner options; operating hours; table reservations; Price range; Self-identification in google and other websites. The presence of one or more of these elements does not definitively categorize a business as a restaurant.  The Coffee Commune has discretion to determine if a particular business is eligible.
  5. Ownership – the Award Program is targeted to recognise and celebrate independent, locally owned businesses. The following are ineligibile: large chains with more than 70 locations across different businesses; franchises where the franchisor is a public company; businesses where the owner/franchisee/franchisor is international.
  6. Eligibility is completely at the discretion of The Coffee Commune.

GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS

  1. Cafes must be based in a predetermined set of postcodes in the Geographic areas:
    a) Brisbane – comprises the local government areas (councils) of Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Redland Bay, Ipswich and Logan.
    b) Gold Coast – comprises local government areas of Gold Coast
    c) Sunshine Coast – comprises the local government areas of Noosa and Sunshine Coast
    d) Wide Bay – comprises the local government areas of Fraser Coast, Bundaberg and Gympie
    e) Norther NSW – comprises the local government areas of Tweed, Ballina, Byron Bay and Lismore
    f) Scenic West – comprises the local government areas of Lockyer Valley, Toowoomba, Scenic Rim and Somerset.
  2. Districts have been defined where possible by local government areas.  In some instances they have been broken up by surburb to be in a districts e.g. Gold Coast split into North, South and Central.  The allocation of suburbs into districts is fixed.