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New-look eaterie serves up jobs
3:27pm Thursday 1st May 2008
Thirty jobs are being created with the redevelopment of a restaurant near Banbury.
The Wobby Wheel at Warmington has become a Brewers Fayre eaterie after it was bought by parent company Whitbread from the Spirit group last month.
A £400,000 facelift is now being carried out at the site on Warrick Road, adjacent to the Premier Inn.
The restaurant will have 191 covers and bosses say they want to recruit people in a variety of full and part-time positions including chefs, waiting staff and bar tenders.
General manager Janine McKiver said: "Investing in the area will create further jobs for the local community and we hope that the combination of great value dining and drinking and the conveniently located Premier Inn will encourage even more visitors to the town."
The new-look restaurant is due to open in mid-June.
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