Chopstix, one of the UK’s fastest growing quick service restaurant brands, will see its shopping centre outlet count rise to 25 with the opening of three new stores over the next six weeks.
The franchised brand, which has 74 sites across the UK and Ireland, will open the new sites at Ipswich’s Sailmakers Centre, Manchester’s Arndale Centre and the Brunel Centre in Swindon, creating 45 new jobs.
In time for retail’s busiest period in the run up to Christmas, the new Chopstix restaurants will offer shoppers the opportunity to enjoy freshly prepared and cooked chicken and vegetarian dishes accompanied by a choice of noodles or rice.
Menashe Sadik and Sam Elia, co-founding Directors of Chopstix Group, stated, 'As a result of these new openings, shopping centres across the country now house one third of our overall outlet count, which has doubled in the past 18 months.
'As well as being a fresher and healthier option in the food court, we also provide one of the fastest services in our sector.
'Our success within the shopping centre environment may be aligned to the fact that we typically serve meals in under 60 seconds – a real advantage for time-pressed shoppers.”
With the opening of these new outlets, Chopstix takes it store count to 74 in retail centres, high streets and the nation’s motorway services network.
Max Hilton Jenvey, Chief Operating Officer added, 'There is undoubtedly much room for us to grow as a brand, and we intend to further develop our partnerships with retail centre owners in the coming months.
'At the same time however, we are actively engaged with multi-site operators in other sectors to not only increase our store count but also achieve our ambition of becoming a major player in the franchise ‘food to go’ marketplace.”