Healthy fast food chain Leon will open in Manchester this spring, after securing its debut north west-based site in the city’s Trafford Centre.
The 43-strong group, which has openings lined up in the capital in Paddington Station, Southwark Street, Richmond and Shaftesbury Avenue, is set to open in the redeveloped Castle Galleries, Regis and Model Zone unit on Lower Regent Crescent opposite the Debenhams Mall Café in the scheme.
The group has long targeted the city as a key opening in its regional expansion plans and is thought to be looking at further roll out opportunities in Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In terms of the capital, the group will open in Lower George Street in Richmond and on a former Costa Coffee site at 62 Shaftesbury Avenue.
The company, which has opened nine sites this year, will also open in Paddington Station in the first quarter of this year.
It recently opened a new site in Oxford, which it claimed would be the most ‘family-friendly’ and ‘eco-friendly’ across its estate, with a buggy park, play area, children’s library, and a new customer waste recycling system.
Earlier this year, the company announced it planned to open 50 new sites over the next four years after securing a new funding deal worth £19m from bank OakNorth.
