Case Study: Kennedy’s Restaurant

The team behind Kennedy’s Restaurant were looking to open up a new branch in Whitecross street in London. After their bank wouldn’t entertain the idea of financing a fish and chips shop, even an upmarket one, they came to Funding Circle to get the £100k small business loan they needed to transform a rather rundown shop into the upmarket experience they like to associate with the Kennedy’s brand. The new restaurant now employs 15 staff members and we have it on good authority that lunchtimes are manically busy, particularly on a Friday when people queue out the door to get their hand on a quality Kennedy’s fish and chips dish or a freshly baked pie.
The owners are keen to grow even further and are considering a variety of models to expand on their success, making Kennedy’s another example of a great British business growing in tough times and doing its bit to employ people and get the economy moving.
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