The Business Desk – Distefano and Bacon open up on restaurant success
IT’S become a celebrity haunt and a flagship group restaurant but the family behind San Carlo originally saw an opening on King Street West next to Kendals in Manchester as a major risk.Speaking at the Northern Restaurant and Bar conference in Manchester yesterday, managing director Marcello Distefano, said it was a big step up to a site where others had failed.He said: “At 7,000 sq ft it was double the size [of existing restaurants]. At the time it was a huge rent for us and if it had failed it would have upset the whole business…Read More.