Five Guys, the popular US burger chain, has confirmed it will open in Milton Keynes this summer, after securing a site at the Xscape scheme.
The 25-strong company, which has a further six sites already secured for openings this year, has taken a 3,550sq ft external unit on the ground floor of the extreme sports leisure destination.
It is also believed to be in advanced talks on a site in Watford near the Intu shopping scheme and on a site in Putney.
Five Guys joins the Xscape scheme following the recent opening of Hollywood Bowl, alongside an extensive refurbishment of the Cineworld Cinema.
Henry Wilson at Shelley Sandzer, which acted on behalf of Land Securities, said: “This is the third Five Guys deal that we have completed on leisure parks for Land Securities in the past 12 months. The brand has bought a real buzz to these schemes and traded strongly. We envisage this to be the case when Five Guys launches here at Xscape.”
Five Guys recently secured a second opening in Leeds, on the former Ace Clothing unit in the city’s Duncan Street, for this June.
The group also recently secured a site at the Meadowhall shopping scheme in Sheffield, and has openings lined up in London’s Villiers Street, Ealing and Glasgow’s Braehead.
It hopes to add 22 units in total across the country this year.
The group, which launched in the UK in the summer 2013, has also secured a site in Southampton.
It hopes to eventually operate 175 to 200 “high volume sites” in the UK and plans to launch in Continental Europe over the next 18 months.
