Recession? What recession? Economic downturn be damned! The catering industry should be heartened to hear that when there are headlines about the public sector strikes splashed all over the newspapers, at the same time, some in the industry feel sufficiently buoyant to open a huge restaurant, which claims to be the biggest in the country.
What is this restaurant and where is it?

Za Za Bazaar is a buffet-style eatery which has just opened in Bristol. According to the press, it can cater for up to 2,100 diners per night. Structured on an ‘all you can eat buffet’ style arrangement, the new restaurant covers some 30,000 square feet at the harbourside of the city and offers a different vibe from the ‘young people’ culture, which prevails in the area generally.
In an interview for the local press, the spokesman for the restaurant said he hoped to attract families and all sorts of parties of people – he argued that there will always be birthdays, always be reasons to celebrate and he wanted Za Za Bazaar to be the venue of choice.

This has been an opportunity to create jobs in the area, of course and there are 36 chefs and some 120 staff who will man the pumps at the new venue. There is a wide range of cuisines, from Chinese, Indian, Tex Mex, together with traditional British fare. This is a chain restaurant, in fact and the first of eight proposed new venues.

Posted by Matt on the 13th December 2011