Whitbread Announces New Sites
Sharon MillerApparently Whitbread has just announced the first sites of the proposed 60 strong restaurant expansion. The company, which just told leading city analysts last month about its expansion plans, said it will open its first two new Table Table restaurants in York and Barnsley in April.
Whitbread will also be opening two Beefeaters as well, but these two had been previously announced. One of them will be located in Burgess Hill and the other in West Sussex. However, there will also be another one, which was just recently announced, in Newport, Gwent that should come to be by August.
The goal is to link these new sites with Premier Inn hotels. The group recently said that it had identified 242 new markets and 117 existing markets where it could expand its Premier Inn brand. However, just how long this will take is still not known.
The managing director for Whitbread, Patrick Dempsey, gave Newmarket in Suffolk as an example of a new market that it could expand into. He went on to say that research has shown that this area would be suitable for an 80 bedroom Premier Inn and co-located Table Table pub restaurant.
The Burgess Bill Beefeater will use the same energy saving technology as what the co-located hotel uses. This will actually be Whitbread’s first low carbon restaurant, which proves that Whitbread is moving forward in trying to lower its carbon emissions.
Both the Premier Inn hotel and Beefeater restaurant in Burgess Hill will be built using timber frame construction methods from sustainable sourced wood. Some of the other features that it will include will be rainwater harvesting, sun pipes and high efficiency thermal insulation.
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