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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
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FOR someone who has become used to closing down her cafes quickly on government orders, Helena Hudson is upbeat about the future of hospitality. She is founder and managing director of the Real Eating Company, the independent chain whose seven sites include a popular spot in Bournemouth’s Yelverton Road. “I don’t know if it’s partly wishful thinking – I don’t think so – but I’m one of these people that thinks that we’re going to do well when things return to normal,” she says. “I don’t want to say exactly when, but I’d like to think by the summer when we’ve fully reopened, the vaccines have pretty much rolled out and we can abandon the one-metre spacing so we can get more covers back in and the screens have gone, I feel that it’s going to come back in quite a meaningful way.”
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British Institute of Innkeeping
“With the package of support from government laid out, our pubs can begin to look to the future of their businesses once more. The extension of furlough to September will help our pubs to manage the return of their teams until they are able to trade freely again. The confirmation of further reductions in business rates will allow them time to recover, but until our nation’s pubs are able to return to normal trading, the vast majority of these businesses will still be loss making.