Cote, the BC Partners-backed group, has further strengthened the openings pipeline for its eponymous brand with sites secures in Gloucester Quays, Lewes and Shrewsbury.

The company, which recently opened its eighty-fifth site in Weybridge, has secured the former Ed’s Easy Diner site in Gloucester Quays for an opening later this spring and a unit on Lewes High Street.

The group, which hope to open 15 sites this year, has also secured sites in Bristol and Leeds for its openings under its eponymous brand this year.

At the same time, the company is gearing up to open the second site, and first outside London, under its Limeyard concept, in the Two Rivers scheme in Staines.

The group has also secured a new build unit at the White Rose scheme’s leisure extension for all-day American kitchen concept Limeyard and a site in Woking to add to the concept’s original site in Ealing, during 2017.

It is thought the group will also look to add three more sites to its six-strong Jackson & Rye format, with talks on a site in Birmingham believed in an advanced stage.