Work is underway at the site of the new Cafe Nero at High Street, Enniskillen RMG58
UP TO 20 new jobs are on the way to Enniskillen with the opening of a new coffee outlet in the town centre and the expansion of one of the town’s busiest convenience stores.
Coffee-shop chain Caffe Nero are opening their first outlet in Enniskillen on High Street next month with the creation of six new jobs. Meanwhile McBride’s Lakeside 24 Hour Service Station at Queen Street is currently undergoing major expansion and refurbishment works to the tune of £350,000.
Caffe Nero’s new outlet will be housed on the former site of one of Enniskillen’s biggest retail units, Burton menswear which closed last September after 15 years in business with the loss of six jobs.
Ceri Aiken, communications manager for Caffe Nero, told the Fermanagh Herald: “Caffe Nero are excited to be opening a new store in Enniskillen in early February. The store has recruited six local people to date, who will be employed as baristas in store.”
Omagh-based McBride Retail Group is one of Northern Ireland’s largest independent Spar Retailers and 2016 will see major investment in their main Enniskillen outlet, which first opened in 1993. The McBride Retail Group, owned by Killyclogher businessman Peter McBride, has stores in Tyrone, Fermanagh and Armagh, including a Spar shop and offlicence at Chanterhill in Enniskillen and a Spar store in Derrylin.
The works at Lakeside Service Station will involve a complete revamp of the store with the creation of a new deli-counter and enhanced food produce display areas. New state of the art refrigeration facilities complete with LED lighting and all the latest technology will significantly reduce the store’s energy costs. As well as a larger, brighter, newly purpose built store with all the latest mod cons, there will also be new fuel pumps installed on the forecourt.
Mr McBride told the Herald that up to ten new jobs will be created as a result:
“It’s 23 years since we established the store at Lakeside and we felt that it was the right time to give it a shot in the arm and re-invest in it for the next 20 years. It’s something that has been in the pipeline for a while but we were waiting for more space to become available for the expansion to begin.
“This is a major project and we are hoping that the main work will be done in March. There will be some disruption but we would ask our customers to bear with us because the end result will make it all worthwhile.
The 24-hour store currently employs 18 full and part-time staff and I would anticipate that this will rise to between 25 and 28 on completion of the refurbishment,” he said.
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