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Vapiano opens £2 million restaurant in Manchester creating 80 jobs

Vapiano, the Italian fresh casual dining restaurant is to open its fourth restaurant and the first outside London.

The restaurant will employ 80 staff.

The new restaurant will open in Manchester’s historic Corn Exchange in the city centre.

The company is investing £2 million to develop the restaurant in the new Exchange Square development.

The restaurant is set to open mid-2015 and will have a customer area of 10,000 square foot and capacity for 350 guests.

It will be spread over two floors and feature two bars and two lounge areas.

The company’s existing restaurants in London are located at Great Portland Street, Wardour Street and Bankside.

Vapiano serves homemade fresh pasta, pizza, salad and dolci, all prepared and made in house to order by chefs cooking in front of the guests.

The Manchester restaurant will be designed by Felix Finkernagle Ross who was responsible for the design of Vapiano in Wardour Street, Soho.

The developer is Queensbury Real Estate.

Vapiano has more than 150 restaurants in the world, having started in Hamburg, Germany in 2002.

These include restaurants in Sweden, Holland, France, Australia and Mexico

Vapiano’s Managing Director, Phil Sermon, said: “We are thrilled to have secured such a fantastic site in Manchester.

“Many of our guests have requested that we open in the north of England and it is exciting that we can now deliver this.

“Manchester is a vibrant city and I am confident that Vapiano will prove popular and be a great addition to the city’s social scene.

“This highlights our intent to open many more Vapiano restaurants in prime positions across the UK.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .