The choice you had of where you could grab lunch whilst out shopping on your local high street was at one point, astonishing.
The "casual dining" explosion in the early 2010s gave us a vast array of different cuisines to try from Italian, Mexican, and Japanese and a mass amount of dishes to tuck into.
Many chains were already in trouble pre-pandemic and shortly after the first nationwide lockdown in March 2020, a raft of restaurant chains collapsed into administration and many were never able to recover.
