Pasta Evangelists plans to open 100 new restaurants
Pasta Evangelists, which made its name after being rejected by Dragons' Den investors and branded 'pasta la disaster', is now looking for franchise partners as it hunts out sites up and down the country.
It plans to invest more than £30 million in the new restaurants, about half of which will be 'flipping' its 'dark kitchens': food preparation hubs that service delivery and takeaway orders quickly.
'If you are just doing delivery only you can obviously only be making delivery-only cash,' Finn Lagun, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Pasta Evangelists, told The Times. 'But if you dine in as well, you get the dine-in cash, alcohol sales and offer our events like pasta-making experiences, which are very high margin.'
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