End of the road for Granary restaurants
30 April 2001
Welcome Break, the motorway services operator, is scrapping its ageing Granary restaurants and replacing them with new quick-service restaurants called Food Connection.
The company is spending more than £5m on the change, which will see 33 Granary restaurants converted in the next 18 months.
It is hoping that the new restaurants will provide more choice, faster service and better food.
Granary restaurants have been feeding motorway travellers, not always to great acclaim, since the 1980s.
Mike Mckechnie, Welcome Break's chief operating officer, said: "The Granary brand and concept has been established for a number of years and we felt it was definitely time for a complete change of style."
