RIP Little Chef

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Re: RIP Little Chef

« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2018, 13:06:56 »

Quote from: bignosemac on February 23, 2018, 15:34:16

Euro Garages have been converting the former Little Chefs to one, or more, of their partner brands. Franchises such as...KFC...

...now known as Little Chicken. Very little chicken...

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Gobi so and so.

Quote from: Timmer on February 23, 2018, 17:47:02

Surprised more of this wasn’t made in the media. Sort of a British institution. Obviously not.

A notable fan was Sir John Major, which could explain why Little Chef failed to corner the yoof market.


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Re: RIP Little Chef

« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2018, 20:31:09 »

Oddly, their website is still up and running. In the locations page, the majority of sites show as open in the text but closed on the included Google maps.

http://www.littlechef.co.uk


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Re: RIP Little Chef

« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2018, 16:47:07 »

No tweets from 'Charlie' since December 2016. Website copyright dated 2015. I suspect the site will only remain live until its domain renewal date.


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Re: RIP Little Chef

« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2018, 17:34:47 »

Sad to see Little Chef go - used to love an Olympic Breakfast, and sometimes meet colleagues to have one when out "on the road" for work.

Also, when I was learning to fly in the early '90's, I had an instructor who used to navigate by reference to Little Chef's - I kid you not (and saw quite a few from the air before I had ever visited them by road).


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Re: RIP Little Chef

« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2018, 17:48:29 »

Quote from: bignosemac on February 27, 2018, 16:47:07

No tweets from 'Charlie' since December 2016. Website copyright dated 2015. I suspect the site will only remain live until its domain renewal date.

The domain is registered for Hybrid Dining Ltd, which is the company that used to own Wolfson Trago Ltd which is what was sold to Euro Garages. Its latest available accounts claims that the Little Chef and Happy Eater brands will be available for franchise in the UK^▸ and overseas. So watch this space I guess.


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