Popular restaurant chain with 277 locations opens 9 new chains - full list

The institution down the Lounge, Cosy Club and Brightside restaurant chains is connected a ngo to grow its portfolio.

Loungers PLC opened its archetypal tract connected North Street successful Bristol successful 2002 and has since built up a 277-strong web crossed the UK, with each 'Lounge' venue notable for its location-specific sanction and quirky decor.

The firm's 250th site, Pionero Lounge, opened successful Rochdale successful January - and co-founders Alex Reilley, Jake Bishop and David Reid aren't showing immoderate motion of slowing down.

In the adjacent 4 months alone, 9 caller restaurants volition propulsion up their shutters crossed the UK, including branches successful Tynemouth, Bromley and Bolton, The Sun reports.

Another has already opened this week - Durano Lounge, successful Tynemouth – connected November 27.

The afloat database of caller openings is arsenic follows:

Cantoro Lounge, Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington – December 4

Pedro Lounge, Bromley – December 11

Blanco Lounge, Bolton – January 8, 2025

Calvero Lounge, Tenterden, Kent – January 22, 2025

Toledo Lounge, Merry Hill Shopping Centre, Brierley Hill – January 29, 2025

Argento Lounge, Preston – February 5, 2025

Manzano Lounge, Rayleigh – February 12, 2025

Saludo, Workington – February 26, 2025

Caldo Lounge, Sale – March 12, 2025

Loungers PLC, which was founded connected the premise of creating "neighbourhood cafe-bars", combining the "elements of a restaurant, British pub and java shop", says astir £1 cardinal is invested into the section precocious thoroughfare with each caller arrival, arsenic good arsenic astir 30 caller jobs.

The packed docket of caller arrivals comes arsenic the brand, which besides runs 36 Cosy Club sites and 3 Brightside 'roadside dining' spots, has agreed to a £338 cardinal takeover by US-based Fortress Investment Group.

The institution has antecedently invested successful UK-based businesses including Majestic Wines, which is besides undergoing a large-scale portfolio expansion, and Peach Pubs & Co.

Mr Reilley said: "Loungers has travel a agelong mode since we opened our archetypal tract successful Bristol successful 2002, and we are hugely arrogant of the jobs we've created, the affirmative interaction we've made connected the UK's precocious streets and the outstanding hospitality our astonishing teams person provided since then.

"We are much ambitious than ever and we spot Fortress arsenic being an perfect spouse to assistance america instrumentality Loungers into the adjacent signifier of its maturation journey."

Customers connected TripAdvisor person thing but praise for the existing sites - with a caller visitant to the Poole subdivision describing it arsenic a “great acquisition successful a quirky venue” and the Oxford edifice praised for its “welcoming and attentive service” and generous information sizes.

The versatile spots connection all-day dining, with the aforesaid paper served from 9am to 1-pm and spanning from afloat English breakfasts to burgers, comfortableness nutrient classics and vegan and vegetarian options.