Harrods launches 550-seat staff restaurant

Knightsbridge department store has opened a 550-seat restaurant to serve the iconic store's 5,000 employees.

The 28,000 sq ft restaurant, which Harrods claimed to be the biggest in London, was created as part of a £220m revamp of the grade II listed building, reported the Evening Standard.

Opening last week, it is one and a half times the size of the restaurant it replaced. It is expected to serve thousands of meals a day from six distinct areas and food offers, including traditional British, Mexican and sushi.

Michael Ward, Harrods managing director, said: "We are very proud to unveil London's largest restaurant for retail's greatest workforce. This expansion is one of the biggest we have undertaken in recent generations, in terms of both scale and capital expenditure."

Helena Malcolm, senior project manager, added: "This development has seen us significantly grow our staff restaurant space by more than 7,000 square feet from its predecessor.

"Through careful design we have merged five separate rooms with unused, open areas of the roof to create one vast restaurant space that spans the whole of our Brompton Road facade on the sixth floor, from turret to turret."