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A new concept in fast-food is set to bring a range of healthy, fast-food to Gateshead’s Trinity Square. Chloe Wilson and partner, Darren Appleton, are finalising plans to open NU TO GO, a contemporary café/take-away, which will ensure nutritious, healthy food is readily available and affordable.
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xtensive research and personal experience
2016, the pair showed the resilience typical of entrepreneurs
of trying to find healthy fast-food on the go
when the deal fell through at the last minute and they were
revealed unsurprisingly, that many people do
left looking for a new location. Determined to secure the
not have the time to prepare meals, preferring
ideal setting they were prepared to wait and eventually
the convenience of grabbing a takeaway or
identified a unit in Trinity Square, becoming an addition
ready meal. Further investigation uncovered that many
to the list of famous brand restaurants and entertainment
people, including families with young children, would prefer
in the recently developed, contemporary shopping and
that meal to be healthy rather than the traditional fast
leisure complex. In addition, a burgeoning population of
food of chips, pizzas and burgers. This feedback resulted
students from Northumbria University’s 933 room student
in the duo identifying a gap in the market that will change
accommodation is situated directly above NU TO GO.
the concept of healthy and nutritious eating on the go. Having first located premises in central Newcastle in 42
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Whilst Darren has continued with his day job as an electrician, Chloe has project managed the design and May and June 2018 • Fastfood Professional
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