THE PUBLIC
PLATE
Scaling Public Restaurants that strengthen community health.
Introducing Public Restaurants:
a new dining category where convenience and affordability meet health and connection.
Our Vision
Public Restaurants will become our common ground; woven into how we live, meet, and connect.
We made sport public.
It’s time to make dining public too.
Like leisure centres, Public Restaurants would offer access to something fundamental: the ability to eat well, together, in public space. Like leisure centres, Public Restaurants can rely on cross-subsidisation: trading revenue from everyday use helps to underwrite wider health, wellbeing, and social outcomes.
What is a Public Restaurant
Public Restaurants make eating out well affordable and familiar; something more of us can enjoy, more often.
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A Public Restaurant combines the quality and comfort of casual dining with the convenience and affordability of fast-food. They will sit alongside more traditional restaurants, offering an alternative option, while widening access to meals out of the home.
From high streets to campuses, leisure centres to community hubs, Public Restaurants could become the foundation of how we eat outside of the home; joyful, affordable dining halls woven into daily life turning good food and social connection into a public habit once again.
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Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, they could support local growers, strengthen supply chains, improve diets, and enrich local economies; growing not as a chain, but as a civic institution.
Scaled through a Social Franchise network.
Our social franchise model makes growth possible without concentrating wealth. Instead of requiring franchisees to bring capital or connections, we provide the infrastructure and patient finance they need to succeed. The economic value created by each Public Restaurant stays local, staying in the community that created it.
What is The Public Plate?
The Public Plate is the system behind Public Restaurants - built to make social dining sustainable: commercially sound, locally owned, and socially impactful.
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The Public Plate holds and protects the vision for Public Restaurants; ensuring they stay rooted in community and purpose, while building the investment framework that allows them to grow and thrive at scale.
Through its structure, The Public Plate offers local authorities, developers, and investors a model they can trust: one that brings energy and life to high streets, delivers measurable public health outcomes, and strengthens local economic resilience.
Above all, it creates the opportunity for Public Restaurants to become a new kind of civic infrastructure; affordable, welcoming spaces where eating together builds belonging, pride, and connection.
Why Now?
Because our places are calling for more than buildings.
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Government policy (Plan for Neighbourhoods/Pride in Place) is emphasising investment in ‘social infrastructure’ like places to meet, connect, and belong. Public Restaurants deliver precisely that: regular, welcoming spaces built on shared experience, offering connection, trust, and belonging in our neighbourhoods.
Where the Value Lies
The value of Public Restaurants spans public health, economic development, and civic life.
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Public Restaurants support public health priorities by making joyful, sociable eating part of everyday life, helping people build lasting healthy habits through connection and belonging.
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They also drive inclusive economic growth, transforming empty high street buildings into vibrant, purposeful places. Through a franchise-to-ownership model, they return wealth and meaningful work to local communities.
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And socially, they are everyday places for togetherness; spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds can share meals, build pride in place, and strengthen their sense of community.
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