{"id":115448,"date":"2025-10-11T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:00:10","slug":"meet-the-wexford-siblings-who-went-from-a-mobile-coffee-truck-to-six-locations-employing-over-60-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115448\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Wexford siblings who went from a mobile coffee truck to six locations employing over 60 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Bates family are set to launch their newest caf\u00e9 in the coming days \u2013 \u2018gather\u2019, located on Selskar Street\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Full of excitement and almost ready to roll. Siblings Lesley Coleman (n\u00e9e Bates), Chloe Bates, Conor Bates and Mam Susan Bates pictured outside their new cafe 'gather' on Selskar Street. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760184010_332_8d1714a3-df13-42a9-ad9d-45624d98492c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Full of excitement and almost ready to roll. Siblings Lesley Coleman (n\u00e9e Bates), Chloe Bates, Conor Bates and Mam Susan Bates pictured outside their new cafe &#8216;gather&#8217; on Selskar Street. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In many ways, the Bates family from Kilmore like to buck the trends. While we frequently hear of the struggles of the hospitality sector, they are expanding. While we hear of more and more young people seeking to leave Ireland, they&#8217;ve returned to pursue a dream. And while we often hear of sibling rivalries and family feuds, these brothers and sisters are working together to carve out their own significant slice of Wexford\u2019s hospitality pie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With The Trough in Wexford town and Rosslare, The Trough trailer in Drinagh The Grounds bakery and The Grounds restaurant in Kilmore Quay already in their stable, they are now getting ready to cut the ribbon on their latest venture \u2013 \u2018gather \u2013 by The Grounds\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bates family are set to launch their newest caf\u00e9 in the coming days \u2013 \u2018gather\u2019, located on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,7583],"class_list":{"0":"post-115448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-padraig-byrne"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}