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Burger King has returned to Belfast City Centre, launching a new store at Victoria Square shopping centre.

In a social media post, Victoria Square confirmed the latest Burger King outlet had opened and is situated on Level 1 of the shopping and leisure complex.

The fast-food outlet joins the likes of Nandos, Boojum, Five Guys and Wagamama which all have outlets in Victoria Square.

It marks a return to the city centre for the Whopper after the restaurant’s iconic Donegall Place store closed its doors last month after 37 years.

The fast food chain made its home on Donegall Place as part of the old Robinson and Cleaver department store building in the late 1980s, with many original features retained inside as well as the original signage on the front of the building.

The restaurant first started out as a Wimpy franchise in the 1970s on Castle Lane before moving to the Donegall Place location, adjacent to the department store.

In 1989, however, the Wimpy brand was sold to Grand Metropolitan who converted a number of the Wimpy restaurants to Burger Kings.

In 2020, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Burger King UK’s boss warned that up to 1,600 jobs could be lost.

But in December 2021, the brand agreed a deal to acquire 12 new restaurants from franchise partners across the UK.

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]]> 20638 Tesco opening new Express store in Belfast days after closing city centre Metro store https://neighbourhoodretailer.com/tesco-opening-new-express-store-in-belfast-days-after-closing-city-centre-metro-store/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:02:08 +0000 https://neighbourhoodretailer.com/?p=18735 Supermarket giant Tesco is poised to open a new Express store at Belfast’s Donegall Place days after closing the city centre Metro supermarket that has

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Supermarket giant Tesco is poised to open a new Express store at Belfast’s Donegall Place days after closing the city centre Metro supermarket that has been operating for 25 years.

The retailer confirmed its decision last year not to renew the lease it has held on the former bank building next to Primark’s bank buildings since 1996.

While the lease isn’t due to expire until Sunday October 17, Tesco has already closed the doors of the Metro store and cleared its shelving from the shop floor.

Tesco still has an express store on Royal Avenue and a new unit about to open just up the street at Donegall Place.

The former bank building on Royal Avenue went on the market earlier this year with an asking price of £4.25 million.

The 22,500 sq ft listed building dates back to 1869 when it was built as the Belfast branch for the Provincial Bank of Ireland. Allied Irish Bank took it over in the late 1980s until it was taken over by Tesco  in 1996, building an extension.

The Tesco Metro store was hard hit in the wake of the August 2018 fire that devastated Primark’s Bank Buildings store next door.

It remained closed for almost nine months, reopening in May 2019, and the work at Bank Buildings has restricted access to the store.

Primark has already responded to the 2018 fire by buying Fountain House on Donegall Place.

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