What makes Welcome Break
Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading independent motorway service operators and has 27 sites across the UK. Welcome Break sites are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and attract 85 million motorway customers annually.
Formed in 1959, Welcome Break now has over 55 years’ experience in the sector and more than 5000 employees who strive to proudly and passionately offer its customers world class food and retail brands such as Waitrose, Starbucks, Harry Ramsden’s, Krispy Kreme, WHSmith, KFC and Burger King in a friendly and relaxing environment.
We have a partnership with the world’s largest specialist sandwich provider, Subway, and branches have opened at over 26 Welcome Break locations to date. It has also partnered with salad bar brand Tossed, and now have five units at Birchanger, South Mimms, Warwick Southbound, Cobham and Oxford. Furthermore, we have also recently opened new Starbucks drive-thrus with Cafes, at Leicester Forest East North, Corley North, Birchanger Green, Oxford, South Mimms, Sarn Park, Fleet South, Hartshead Moor East and Warwick, along with new pioneering Drive Thru only stores at Hopwood Park, Woodall North, Keele North and Keele South to complement other Starbucks drive thru stores in the Welcome Break estate.
There are now a total of 19 Harry Ramsden’s across Welcome Break sites offering world famous fish and chips. Welcome Break also operates 22 Days Inn and 7 Ramada hotels across the UK motorway network.
We were also named as number 88 on The Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100 2015, the annual list of the UK’s top 100 private companies with the biggest sales.
It’s about people
Our business is about people. The 85 million people who visit our sites each year. Every one deserves to get a warm welcome and enjoyable break with the very best service, facilities, food and drinks we can provide.
Providing you with a great ‘break’ is really important to us. Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable. As rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their work/life balance just right!
Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed here at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes where team members can nominate and thank each other. What’s more, we work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own people so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.
Children In Need
We are proud supporters of BBC Children In Need and raised £775,000 this year, with your support – thank you. Next year, we’re doing our thing with Pudsey and are hoping to reach a record breaking £1,000,000!
