CAFÉ Mosaic has been providing the Cirencester public with lunch, tea, cakes and a warm welcome for a total of six years this July.

The popular café bistro owned by Paul and Lesley Hinsley proudly took the crown for the Customer Service Award 2015 at the recent Cirencester Chamber of Commerce Awards in May.

Sponsored by the Standard each year, the award is voted purely by the public, and this is what pleased Paul and Lesley so much about winning.

“Regardless of what you put on their plate, if you don’t welcome your customer in kindly, and say goodbye to them kindly, they will forget about you,” said Paul.

“The reaction of our customers when they found out we had won was that they were absolutely delighted.

"As they are part of our café, they felt like they had won too.”

Paul, 56, and Lesley, 53, have been in the catering business their entire lives, with Paul working as head of catering for First Great Western and Lesley as contracts manager for the same company.

The couple originally had a home in South Cerney but now live in Latton.

“We were both made redundant within 12 months of each other so we decided to buy somewhere,” saidadded Paul. “We looked at restaurants, pubs, but then came across this tearoom.

“We developed it from a tearoom into something based around Cirencester, with our mosaic tables and mosaics on the wall. Our food is colourful, with lots of different elements. We make it all ourselves, except for the bread, danishes and teacakes which come from local bakery Whiddets.”

Paul and Lesley, who have been together for 17 years and married for eight, are hoping to open another Cotswold Café Mosaic in the future and create more jobs, opening up new opportunities for people to come and work for them.

Visit cafemosaic.co.uk for more.

Every week the Standard will be showcasing a different winner from this year’s Cirencester Business Awards. See Café Mosaic in tomorrow's (Thursday's) paper and see the following week’s edition for a profile piece on another award-winning firm in the town.