{"id":11841,"date":"2017-03-24T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2017-03-24T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:00:01","slug":"northern-cities-lead-independent-restaurant-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/northern-cities-lead-independent-restaurant-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern cities lead independent restaurant boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Northern cities are leading an independent restaurant boom. The growth rates of independent restaurants are outstripping traditional hot spots such as London and Edinburgh. This has been shown in a recent study. London has seen an increase of 7.4 percent in new independent restaurants. They have fallen behind other cities in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Northern cities are seeing a boom in independent restaurant openings with growth rates outstripping traditional hotspots such as London and Edinburgh, a new study shows.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Leeds and Newcastle had the fastest growing independent restaurant scene, with a 12.8% rise in new openings since 2014. In contrast London has seen just a 7.4% increase<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">London still stands apart in terms of the scale and depth of its restaurant scene, but escalating costs mean the regions now offer genuine opportunity for ambitious operators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;The relatively mature restaurant scenes in Edinburgh and Manchester offered less opportunity for independents, with just 1.6% and 3.1% growth respectively. However, both cities had the largest number of independent restaurants outside the capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Venues\/Independent-restaurants-boom-in-Northern-cities?utm_source=RSS_text_news&#038;utm_medium=RSS_feed&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Text_News\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Venues\/Independent-restaurants-boom-in-Northern-cities?utm_source=RSS_text_news&#038;utm_medium=RSS_feed&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Text_News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern cities are leading an independent restaurant boom. The growth rates of independent restaurants are outstripping traditional hot spots such as London and Edinburgh. This has been shown in a recent study. London has seen an increase of 7.4 percent in new independent restaurants. They have fallen behind other cities in this area. Key Takeaways: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}