We took every food business that recently registered to trade across the ten boroughs, 1,041 of them, and looked at where they're opening, what they are, and who's behind them. Here's what the data shows.
Greater Manchester is opening food businesses faster than most people realise. Across the ten boroughs, 1,041 new cafés, takeaways, restaurants, pubs and mobile caterers appear on the public food-hygiene register. Each one is a real premises getting ready to trade, most of them independents you've never heard of yet.
The city of Manchester dominates in raw numbers, but new food businesses are appearing in every borough, from Tameside to Manchester.
Half of everything new is a restaurant or café. But more than a third is takeaways and sandwich shops, and that share swings hard by area.
Bury is the takeaway capital: 64% of its new food businesses are takeaways. Wigan skews most towards sit-down venues, at just 28%.
Of the 1,041 new businesses, 18% (190) are registered limited companies, not just sole traders. And of those, 118 were incorporated in the twelve months before this snapshot. These aren't dormant shells: they're new premises, newly incorporated, getting ready to open their doors.
That matters to anyone who sells to hospitality. A brand-new limited company opening a food venue needs a card machine, an EPOS till, insurance, an accountant, equipment, signage. And it needs them in the first few weeks, before it has picked a supplier for any of them.
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