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Sept 2022
M&S café in Harrogate saved after U-turn
Marks & Spencer has decided to retain a café at its Leeds Road food hall in Harrogate after previously saying it would close.
The company announced in December it planned to increase the size of its food hall at Oatlands by more than 70% and extend into the neighbouring Sofa.com retail unit.
It said the scheme would enable it to 'deliver a bigger, better and fresher new-look food hall' but that it would mean closing the in-store café.
How the Oatlands food hall will look.
The café is a popular meeting point and the news prompted a petition calling for it to be retained.
M&S has now confirmed to the Stray Ferret that its new look food hall will include a café.
The woman who organised the petition, who lives near the food hall but asked not to be named, said the manager of the store had contacted her to say the café would be retained but would be smaller. She said she understood it was likely to be similar in size to the new Pret shop in Harrogate town centre.
But she welcomed the decision to retain the café:
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