Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) plans to open six sites under California-born restaurant brand Carl’s Jr this year, as part of plans to open 100 sites within the next five years.
Propel revealed last year that BRG, which launched Carl’s Jr in the UK at the start of April, had signed a master licence agreement with CKE Restaurants Holdings and that it had secured a site at the St David’s shopping scheme in Cardiff for the first location.
Earlier this month it was revealed that BRG is set to open a Carl’s Jr on the former TGI Friday’s site within The City Gates leisure scheme in Swansea. At the same time, BRG has lined up an opening in the Westquay scheme in Southampton.
BRG has told The Sun that it also plans to open in Bristol, Manchester, York and Leeds this year, as part of plans to open up 100 restaurants across the UK within the next five years.
All the new locations will include a breakfast menu and be available on Uber Eats for delivery. The brand is also set to launch a new burger at the end of the month as part of its summer menu.
At the end of April, Rodrigo de la Torre, interim president of CKE International, said the brand’s debut UK site was “one of our most successful openings in Europe to-date”. CKE said the UK debut location saw more than 200 transactions within the first hour of opening.
De la Torre said: “We’re very excited about the expansion of Carl’s Jr into the UK and Republic of Ireland. This was one of our most successful openings in Europe to date and we look forward to seeing Boparan’s continued success.”
Carl’s Jr currently operates more than 1,100 international restaurants in more than 35 countries around the world, including circa 100 sites across Europe.
