Fast-food chains of the United Kingdom

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Answer 1

The West Cornwall Pasty Company

West Cornwall Pasty Company

The West Cornwall Pasty Company (styled as West Cornwall Pasty Co.) is a fast food chain in the United Kingdom specialising in making and selling pasties. The company's headquarters are in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, while its products are manufactured in Penryn, Cornwall.

The West Cornish Pasty Company was launched in 1998 by Ken Cocking, a serial entrepreneur, along with his sons, Arron and Gavin, and Mark Christophers. The first store was opened in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and the firm was initially financed by family and friends. After nine years, Cockings sold the company to its management for £40 million in 2007. At the time, the company had 400 staff in 55 establishments of various types. By 2013 it was reported to employ around 450 staff in eighty locations, including eighteen in London. The pasty was originally a portable meal of meat and potatoes in a pastry case, made for tin miners in Cornwall to take underground. The modern range has expanded to include lamb and minted peas, chicken, and spicy chorizo.

In 2014, the private equity house Gresham, the owners of the company, put it into administration, blaming its failure on the government's decision to charge VAT on pasties. The company was subsequently sold to another private equity fund called Endless, backed by Danny Mills, former Leeds United F.C. and England footballer, and others. Since then the losses have been reduced by expanding the company's range and by taking a more targeted approach, concentrating on outlets such as railway stations and sports venues. The firm is also boosting the range of own-brand coffees that it sells, to try to get each customer to spend more in each transaction. The firm still bakes all its pasties in western Cornwall and has more than forty outlets across Britain.

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Answer 2

Wimpy (restaurant)

Wimpy

Wimpy is the brand name of a multinational chain of fast food restaurants, that is currently headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Originally called Wimpy Grills, the Wimpy brand was created in 1934 by Edward Gold, when he opened his first location in Bloomington, Indiana. The name was inspired by the character of J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Although the Wimpy name is most closely identified with the city of Chicago, Gold did not open his first Chicago area location until two years later in 1936, and after opening units in five other Midwestern cities. By 1947, the Chicago Tribune reported that the chain had twenty six units, and expected to sell eight million hamburgers annually in the Chicago area.

According to a 1978 Chicago Tribune article, Gold's company Wimpy Grills Inc. of Chicago had a maximum of twenty five locations in the United States at its height, but only seven locations remained at the time of his death in 1977. According to the Chicago Tribune, when Gold died in 1978, the chain vanished within the United States because no one had purchased the rights and trademark to the Wimpy name from Gold's estate.

In 1954, Gold sold a licence to J. Lyons and Co to use the Wimpy name in the United Kingdom. Subsequently, in 1957, Wimpy Grills Inc. of Chicago formed a joint company with Lyons called Wimpy's International Inc, based in Chicago, to operate Wimpy Grills in the rest of the world.

The joint company eventually grew to 1,500 locations, and Gold later sold his share to Lyons prior to his death. After obtaining full control of the international licensing outside of the United States, Lyons and its successors handled global franchising through their United Kingdom based subsidiary Wimpy International Ltd. This was until Wimpy UK became a subsidiary of South Africa based Famous Brands in 2007.

Lyons obtained a licence to use the Wimpy brand in the United Kingdom, from Edward Gold's Chicago based Wimpy Grills, Inc. and, in 1954, the first "Wimpy Bar" Lyons was established at the Lyons Corner House in Coventry Street, London. Originally, the bar was a special fast food section within the more traditional Corner House restaurants, but the success soon led to the establishment of separate Wimpy restaurants serving only hamburger based meals.

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Wrapchic

Wrapchic is an Indian burrito fast food chain. Mahesh Raikar, the owner of the company, opened the first location in Birmingham City Centre in June 2012. Wrapchic now has multiple locations including one in Soho's Beak Street in Central London.

Wrapchic was one of 13 businesses that made it through final round of the Institute of Asian Businesses’ (IAB) annual business awards 2013 and Mahesh Raiker was shortlisted for Business person of the year award.

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