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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe and Sarah Butler

Greggs staff to share £17.6m bonus as chain overtakes McDonald’s to become UK’s top breakfast take-out

Customers enter a branch of Greggs bakery chain in London
Greggs said evening meals such as chicken goujons, potato wedges and pizzas were selling well. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Thousands of Greggs workers will share a £17.6m bonus pot this month after the bakery chain famous for its sausage rolls and steak bakes said it had made a record annual profit and overtaken McDonald’s to become the UK’s most popular breakfast spot.

Britain’s biggest bakery chain said 25,000 employees – out of a total of 32,000 across the UK – would receive a bonus in their pay packets at the end of March, as it reported a 27% jump in profits to £188m.

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