The Real Eating Company is looking to open more than 15 additional sites over the next three years, building its estate to 25 café-coffee shops.
The business opened its seventh site in Cambridge last week – a former Pret A Manger – and is hoping to capitalise on the available site opportunities, due to the pandemic, in order to boost her footprint at a more rapid pace than previously planned.
The expansion of the business began a couple of years ago, before the pandemic, when several other coffee shop chains, such as Patisserie Valerie and EAT had closed sites due to over-expansion.
Founder and managing director Helena Hudson tells