Fast-food chains of the United Kingdom

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Answer 1

Pure (fast food chain)

Pure

Pure is a fast food chain based in London, United Kingdom. It serves sandwiches, drinks and breakfast items.

The company was founded by Spencer Craig, with the first Pure store opening in Beak Street, Soho, in 2009.

In 2015, Pure was included in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 as one of the fastest growing and profitable companies of 2015 with a 65% annual sales rise over 3 years.

In 2016 Whitbread, the FTSE 100 leisure group behind Premier Inn and Costa Coffee, bought a 49 per cent stake in the company, acquired for £6.8m and having the option to buy the remainder of the company within the next five years.

Pure was included again in 2016 in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100, consolidating the company as one of the most prominent options in the food chain market.

As of February 2017, Pure have 11 shops opened in London, mainly based in the City and around Soho. Pure employs more than 200 people among team members, assistant managers, and General Managers.

Pure’s menu includes breakfast items, salads, wraps, sandwiches, juices and smoothies, hot drinks, pots and snacks.

The company uses organic and seasonal ingredients, advertising that their food is freshly made every day in the kitchen at each store. Most orders are delivered by bicycle.

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Answer 2

Quiznos

QIP Holder LLC

QIP Holder LLC (doing business as Quiznos) is a franchised fast-food restaurant brand based in Denver, Colorado, which specializes in offering toasted submarine sandwiches. The restaurant chain was founded in 1981 by Jimmy Lambatos and sold to Rick and Richard Schaden in 1991, and grew to nearly 5,000 restaurants. As of the end of 2013, the chain had about 1,500 domestic locations and about 600 international locations. Quiznos is the second-largest submarine sandwich shop chain in North America, after Subway.

The first Quiznos restaurant was opened in Denver, Colorado, by founder Jimmy Lambatos. At the time, Lambatos was an experienced chef, having previously worked as an executive chef for the Colorado Mine Co. Steakhouse, and having founded the Italian restaurant Footers in 1978. He founded Quiznos with partner Todd Disner in the spring of 1981. The first location was at the corner of 13th and Grant Streets in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the city. According to Kevin Jenkins, "It was there that recipes for Quiznos special baguette-style bread, special dressings and unique recipes were created."

According to Patrick Sweeney, "The sandwich shop earned a following for its toasted subs that Lambatos said were inspired by the oven-baked sandwiches he enjoyed while growing up in New York." Lambatos said of his decision to toast the submarine sandwiches at the first Quiznos that, "it's a signature type of thing. Heating anything brings out the flavors in food products." The restaurant menu featured toasted submarine sandwiches, as well as salads, soups, and desserts.

After two years, the restaurant started offering franchises to facilitate expansion offering its first franchises in 1983. The franchises were offered under the name Quiznos American, Inc. By 1987, 12 Quiznos restaurant locations were operating in the United States. That year, Rick Schaden, at the age of 23, and his father, aviation attorney Richard Schaden, opened their first Quiznos franchise in a Boulder, Colorado, shopping center. They opened three additional restaurants before purchasing the 18-restaurant chain from the founders in January 1991 and renamed it the Quiznos Franchise Corp. Rick Schaden became the president, and then CEO, of Quiznos after the purchase. Jenkins wrote that Schaden, "began building a professional infrastructure to support franchise owners that included volume purchasing, standardized training, and operations procedures, as well as marketing support." Quiznos was taken public in February 1994, with an IPO of one million shares of stock at $5 per share, resulting in a $4.4 million yield. By the end of 1995, Quiznos had 103 different locations.

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Sam%27s Chicken

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Southern Fried Chicken

Fried chicken

Fried chicken (also referred to as Southern fried chicken for the variant in the United States) is a dish consisting of chicken pieces usually from broiler chickens which have been floured or battered and then pan-fried, deep fried, or pressure fried. The breading adds a crisp coating or crust to the exterior. What separates fried chicken from other fried forms of chicken is that generally the chicken is cut at the joints, and the bones and skin are left intact. Crisp well-seasoned skin, rendered of excess fat, is a hallmark of well made fried chicken.

The first dish known to have been deep fried was fritters, which were popular in the Middle Ages. However, it was the Scottish who were the first Europeans to deep fry their chicken in fat (though without seasoning). Meanwhile, a number of West African peoples had traditions of seasoned fried chicken (though battering and cooking the chicken in palm oil). Scottish frying techniques and West African seasoning techniques were combined by enslaved Africans and African-Americans in the American South. Prior to the Second World War, fried chicken was often very expensive and was only enjoyed on special occasions. In the late 1900s and early 2000s, however, fried chicken has been mass-produced and the price of the dish has gone down significantly.

When being cooked, fried chicken is often divided into smaller pieces. The chicken is then generally covered in a batter, often consisting of ingredients such as eggs or milk, and a thickener such as flour. This is used to create a crust on the exterior of the meat. In addition, seasoning is often added at this stage. Once the chicken is ready to be cooked, it is placed in a deep fryer, frying pan or pressure cooker (depending on the method used) and fried in lard or a type of oil.

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Spudulike

Spudulike

Spudulike is a restaurant specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as "spuds" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974

Spudulike was founded by Kim Culley, David Leggate and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, the company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation. It later demerged from BSM and in 2001 bought Courts Quality Foods, owner of rival potato brand Fat Jackets. Spudulike had 50 outlets across the United Kingdom in 2001, including 20 Courts franchises, giving them a presence in most of the country's shopping centres.

Spudulike serves baked potatoes with a variety of fillings, as well as other potato meals, including crushed potato salads and a selection of side dishes.

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Answer 6

Subway (restaurant)

Subway IP, Inc.

Subway IP Inc., (doing business as Subway) is a privately held American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches (subs) and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc., doing business as Subway IP, Inc. Subway is one of the fastest-growing franchises in the world, with 44,882 restaurants in 112 countries and territories as of December 27, 2016. The United States alone has 26,646 outlets. It is the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest restaurant operator in the world.

Subway's international headquarters is in Milford, Connecticut; five regional centers support Subway's international operations. The regional offices for European franchises are located in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Australian, and New Zealand locations are supported from Brisbane (Australia); the Asian locations are supported from offices in Beirut (Lebanon) and Singapore, and the Latin American support center is in Miami.

In 1965, Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 from friend Peter Buck to start "Pete's Super Submarines" in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and in the following year, they formed Doctor's Associates Inc. to oversee operations of the restaurants as the franchise expanded. The holding company derives its name from DeLuca's goal to earn enough from the business to pay tuition for medical school, as well as Buck's having a doctorate in physics. Doctor's Associates is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, any medical organization. In 1968, the sandwich shop was renamed "Subway".

The first Subway on the West Coast was opened in Fresno, California, in 1978. The first Subway outside of North America opened in Bahrain in December 1984. The first Subway in the United Kingdom was opened in Brighton in 1996. In 2004, Subway began opening stores in Walmart supercenters and surpassed the number of McDonald's locations inside U.S. Walmart stores in 2007.

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Tastte!

Tastte! is a UK sandwich chain owned by the Compass Group. Outlets are found in many London railway stations, and others around the country. Outlets are also present in some universities.

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Answer 8

Tortilla (restaurant chain)

Tortilla is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom.

Brandon Stephens from California founded Tortilla in London in 2007.

As of September 2015 it had 27 branches in the UK.

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Wahaca

Wahaca is a UK restaurant group selling Mexican-style street food, co-founded by Thomasina Miers, with 25 branches, mostly in London.

Miers opened the first branch in the West End of London in August 2007, focused on Mexican street food. In October 2008 a second Wahaca opened at Westfield in London. Two further branches in Canary Wharf and Soho followed in 2011, and Wahaca launched its first mobile street kitchen. In 2012 it opened its Top One Wahaca Southbank Experiment. In September 2015 Wahaca opened its first restaurant in the north west, based in Manchester.

In October 2016, Wahaca opened its first restaurant in Scotland, in central Edinburgh.^[4]

As of November 2016, Wahaca had 25 branches, up from 19 branches in September 2015.

Wahaca has won awards for its food, design, and sustainability. In 2016, co-founders Mark Selby and Thomasina Miers were voted restaurateurs of the year by Caterer Magazine.

In 2016, Wahaca became the first restaurant group in the UK to be certified as carbon neutral.

In November 2016, Wahaca restaurants in London were suspected as the source of a norovirus outbreak leading to 300 people falling ill, with symptoms including vomiting. In response, Wahaca temporarily closed nine outlets and apologised to those that had been unwell.

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Answer 10

Wasabi (restaurant)

Wasabi

Wasabi is a fast food restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom, focused on Japanese food, especially sushi and bento, and operating in London and New York. Wasabi was founded in London in 2003 by Dong Hyun Kim, a Korean entrepreneur. As of January 2015, they had 37 outlets in central London, and had opened their first one in New York. In June 2015, they opened in Cambridge.

Wasabi, King Street, Hammersmith, London

Wasabi, King Street

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