Talk:Welcome Break

Announcement!

I moved the recently added sentence about the new Days Inn hotel at Corley to the Corley services page as it is more useful there. As information particular to that service area it did not have a place on the Welcome Break page. Nau03144 (talk) 03:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Bot report : Found duplicate references !

In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

• "caterersearch" :
  • {{Cite web |url=http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/03/28/319942/motorway-services-provider-welcome-break-sold.html |title=Motorway services provider Welcome Break sold |publisher=Caterer Search |accessdate=2006-07-11}}
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DumZiBoT (talk) 18:17, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

CEO is John Diviney. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.68.13.202 (talk) 09:21, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 April 2021

Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:91B6:E801:9D1E:2DEC:AF3C:F22C (talk) 10:13, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Melmann 08:29, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Who is "we"? Reliable sources must be publicly available, not transmitted via private channels. If you cannot point to a publicly available reliable source, then your edit request is unsupportable. ~Anachronist (talk) 14:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Edit Request

Please can the below be amended?

New Logo: https://ibb.co/9bGjCQL

Revenue: £630m

Number of employees: 5,000

CEO: John Diviney Welcome Break is a British motorway service station operator that operates 44 motorway service stations in the UK. It is the second-largest motorway service area operator behind Moto. It also operates hotels and motels. It is a subsidiary of Applegreen. Eat In became Welcome Break's own brand self-service restaurant. However, these have since been replaced with food courts, featuring a selection of brands varying from location to location: Subway was opened at 26 Welcome Break sites.' Harry Ramsden's, a UK-based fish and chip restaurant (also offering a range of breakfast to eat in or take away), is included at the majority of sites. Waitrose has franchise stores at most Welcome Breaks. In May 2006, a branch of the international coffeehouse chain Starbucks was opened at Corley services. Starbucks is now located in most Welcome Break services. Welcome Break is a long-standing KFC licensee, operating KFC fast food restaurants at 27 of it’s service areas. In May 2005, Welcome Break announced a deal with KFC designed to bypass tough UK motorway signage legislation. UK law used to prevents motorway service area operators from displaying additional brand names other than their own company name on roadside signage. To circumvent this restriction, a new subsidiary company "Welcome Break KFC" was registered. However now it is legal to have up to 6 logos on motorway service station signs. Burger King restaurants operate at all Welcome Break service stations except Burtonwood and Derby South. Tossed is a healthy food based restaurant chain at selected Welcome Break services. These are Oxford, South Mimms, Birchanger Green, Warwick and Fleet. In 1995, it was announced that they were going to add a McDonald's to every one of the services, but the process was stopped after just two because Forte were acquired by Granada (now Moto), a deal which included Welcome Break and lost out to Burger King being added instead.[citation needed] There is only one McDonald's now, at Fleet services. The branch at Woodall services closed in March 2020. Chopstix, first introduced in August 2016 at Birchanger Green. Now has a few branches at other services. You can also find Ben & Jerry's, Starbucks, Pret, Pizza Express, The Good Breakfast and Krispy Kreme.

2A00:23C7:91B6:E801:2818:6F2A:D066:F427 (talk) 09:57, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

References

 Not done: Too WP:PROMO. Melmann 16:49, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Edit Request

Please can the account 'Welcome Break Marketing Team' have access to edit this page. There is a lot of outdated information on this page - for example the number of locations we operate. Another example - the logo was requested to be changed 2 years ago, but was declined due to a 'conflict of interest'. This has not been the company logo for over 3 years now, so it would be great if we could have control to make these necessary updated. Thank you Welcome Break Marketing Team (talk) 14:46, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 December 2024

it says “operates” twice before the hyperlink to Applegreen, remove one of the uses of the word “operates” 2A00:23C6:DC87:7401:1551:59E1:BDE2:3359 (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done FifthFive (talk) 18:05, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 August 2025

Hello there, I'd like to mention an error in regards to catering at Welcome Break. Welcome Break have offered Pizza Express as a brand since 2017 starting at Oxford M40, now expanding to multiple service areas including Fleet (M3), Beaconsfield (M40, Extra) and Cobham (M25, Extra). Thanks E108522t (talk) 18:47, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Day Creature (talk) 19:20, 17 August 2025 (UTC)