Popular burger business Fat Hippo is poised to more than double the number of restaurants it runs across the UK and create more than 200 jobs by the end of next year.
Managing director Mike Phillips was still a student at Northumbria University when he wrote the original business plan for the Fat Hippo Group ahead of its launch 12 years ago.
The success of the first eaterie in Jesmond swiftly led to the opening of its subterranean venue in Newcastle city centre, and it now operates other restaurants in Durham, Leeds, Liverpool and Nottingham, plus four concessions, including kiosks within Lane 7’s Sheffield, Manchester and Edinburgh, and a street food fleet that travels across the UK.
