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Fireaway Pizza opens its first convenience store concession
04/09/2026Fireaway Pizza has opened a concession inside a convenience store, launching a pizza counter within the Welcome Rickmansworth store run by Southern Co-op franchise partner Dilan Patel. Fireaway operates 160 UK restaurants and has opened more than 100 of them…
Houston Hot Chicken, backed by PizzaExpress, confirms second UK restaurant
03/09/2026PizzaExpress, which holds the UK franchise rights to Houston Hot Chicken, will open the American hot chicken chain's second UK restaurant this winter at the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury. The opening follows Houston Hot Chicken's first UK site in Stevenage,…
Din Tai Fung to open fifth London restaurant, in King’s Cross
03/09/2026Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese dumpling chain operated in the UK under franchise by Singapore's BreadTalk Group, will open its fifth London restaurant at Lewis Cubitt Walk in King's Cross this December. The site adds to existing restaurants in Covent…
Bunsik opens in Coventry and Birmingham, its first Midlands sites
03/09/2026Korean street food chain Bunsik will open two Midlands sites this autumn, in Coventry this month and at Birmingham's Bullring in October, extending its franchise partnership with ZK Group after the operator's earlier launch in Plymouth. The Midlands debut continues…
Black Sheep Coffee opens first UK drive-thru, in Blackburn
02/09/2026Black Sheep Coffee opened its first UK drive-thru this week, a new format at Townsmoor Retail Park in Blackburn built and run by a Lancashire-based franchise team. The site is the coffee chain's second in the county after a Lancaster…
Sun, sea and sausage rolls – Greggs eyes expansion abroad again
01/06/2026British bakery chain Greggs is opening its first overseas outlet in nearly two decades at Tenerife South Airport later this month, in partnership with Lagardere Travel Retail. The shop will sit in the international departures area and target the roughly…
How do you Open a Nando’s Franchise ? Is it Possible in the UK in 2026?
23/02/2026Since first breaking onto British shores in the early 90s, Nando's has gone on to achieve a level of cult status on the UK high street that most restaurant chains can only dream of. The peri-peri chicken giant is now…
Youtubers behind Sides on are the rise as Sidemen serve up new openings
19/02/2026Sides, the hot chicken concept founded by YouTubers Sidemen in partnership with Hero Brands, has built a reputation for bold, freshly cooked Nashville style fried chicken. Double dipped and double coated for extra crispiness, diners can choose their flavour level…
Eatphoria secures multi million pound backing from Italian investor TAN Food
18/02/2026Founded by Mohammad Shaikh and Arshad Shaikh, Eatphoria has grown from its UK-born flagship concept Wraps & Wings into a diversified multi-brand quick service restaurant group. The group UK QSR Eatphoria is the multi-brand quick service restaurant group behind its…
