HOUSING UNITS
PRESS RELEASE
May 24, 2011.
TASTE OF SUCCESS AS RESTAURANT EXPANDS – AGAIN.
There’s a taste of success in one of the region’s leading home furnishings stores as a leading North West
The Wickentree Restaurant in Housing Units’ retail park in Failsworth has benefitted from a £50,000 investment to expand its kitchens five-fold, is adding 15% capacity to cater for huge growth in the number of diners and people taking afternoon tea, and has introduced a pager system to allow customers to wander the store until their table is ready.
Rick Dunkley, head chef and restaurant manager, has been with Housing Units for two years, but in that time the restaurant has had to be expanded twice.
Nick Fox, director of Housing Units, said: “Frankly, people don’t expect a restaurant of such quality in a home furnishings store, but after they’ve eaten here once, they just keep coming back again and again.
“We realised we needed to act and expand when earlier this year we started to experience more and more days when we had a queue for tables – and the kitchens started to look like an episode of MasterChef running at triple speed.
“Rick has done a fantastic job with a new menu, a new approach, and a truly fantastic take on breakfasts, lunches, snacks, multi-course meals and afternoon teas.
“The standards are such that The Wickentree has become a destination restaurant, not simply somewhere to take a break during or after shopping. Two secrets: the food is fantastic, and the parking is free.”
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Further information:
Iain Macauley
0161 929 0446/07788 978800
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