Much-loved burger chain announces ‘immediate’ closure of all but ONE restaurant in UK after ‘stress takes its toll’

A FAVOURITE burger concatenation is acceptable to adjacent each its restaurants but conscionable 1 aft owners struggled with stress.

Hungry Cow, a family-run concern successful Wales, said they would beryllium shutting with "immediate effect".

Christy Goode opened his archetypal edifice successful 2021 successful Holwell, Flintshire, aft initially renting pub kitchens successful Prestatyn.

His task "blew up close from the start" and successful 2023 helium expanded and opened a subdivision successful Colwyn Bay.

The eatery became good known for its luxury burgers, wings and loaded fries.

However, locals were gutted erstwhile they announced connected Facebook that they would beryllium closing.

"Unfortunately we person made the precise hard determination to adjacent some of our Colwyn Bay edifice & Flint explicit tract with contiguous effect.

"We are a tiny family-run concern and the accent of managing aggregate locations whilst trying to guarantee we support the highest standards has taken its toll.

"Although we person enjoyed our times of expansion, we judge that the close determination for america arsenic a concern is to present instrumentality a measurement back, successful bid for america to determination guardant successful the future.

"Our Mold Bar & Restaurant volition stay unfastened arsenic normal, wherever we volition beryllium focussing connected creating a unsocial & accordant dine-in, instrumentality distant & transportation work with 100% of our efforts for our customers.

"Lastly, we would similar to instrumentality this accidental to convey each of our fantastic squad astatine Hungry Cow & each of our customers for your continued support.

"We look guardant to seeing you each successful the Mold Bar & Restaurant successful the adjacent future," they added.

The station collected rave-reviews and well-wishes from loyal customers, with 1 writing: "Ah I americium truthful gutted! Will miss the BBQ Mac & Cheese!! We volition person to marque the peculiar travel to Mold soon conscionable to person some!!

"Absolutely gutted astir this guys. You cognize however overmuch we emotion your food. Thank you for ever providing the champion prime nutrient and work to us. We volition person to task into Mold much now," said another.

A 3rd wrote: "My hubby and I person precocious moved to Mold from Shropshire, everytime we had to travel present earlier we moved in, we visited Hungry Cow - your burgers are the champion - and I'm rather choosy astir nutrient with being a farmers girl and ex butcher girl.

"This must've been a precise hard determination to marque but it's the close one, though contiguous not everyone whitethorn agree.

"We volition astir surely beryllium regulars astatine Mold the beauteous scouse woman who serves america adjacent knows what we'll bid now."

There is simply a Hungry Cow successful London, but it is not connected to Mr Goode.