This is closely followed by the moccacino with 18% of the vote over the past 24 months.
The rest of the top five is made up of white coffee (16%), café latte (15%) and latte macchiato (7%). The coffee company also notes that espresso and black coffees are also firm favourites with a combined one in ten coffee lovers.
Luis Nino, director at rijo42, said: “When we saw the story that some US coffee shops were stopping advertising cappuccino on their boards, we knew that wouldn’t be the case in the UK, as it most definitely remains the preferred drink over here.
“There’s zero chance it will be leaving the menu any time soon – it’s no has-bean! In fact, with the figures for cappuccino and moccacino, which is a form of cappuccino, combined, our retailers have sold almost 17 million in the last two years, making up 40 per cent of the coffee they sell.
“Coffee really has become such a key part of the UK’s beverage culture in the last decade – and has moved on so much from the days when the only decision you needed to make was whether to add milk and sugar. Every six months the people we supply sell enough coffee to fill an Olympic size swimming pool – not that you’d fancy a dip in it!”
rijo42 is a UK supplier of commercial coffee machines, coffee beans and coffee ingredients and was established in 1989.