LEON Restaurants

With 2025 just around the corner, it's time to take a look back at our LEON 2024 Best Bits... 1. We launched our brand new coffee subscription - Roast Rewards - on 30th May and, to date, we’ve served you lovely lot 758,842 barista-made drinks through this membership. Brewtiful. 2. Two heads are better than one. We’ve worked with some seriously cool brands on some memorable collabs. Including Mindful Chef | B Corp , Grubby , HelloYummy Box , Degusta Box & Jude's Watch this space, as we have another exciting collab coming in hot in Jan '25! 3. We’ve brought MORE Naturally Good Fast Food to more retailers and more homes around the country. Launching our frozen range into Morrisons , GFC into Sainsbury's , Coffee on Ocado Retail and our Christmas Range into Boots UK & Next 4. We launched the product you never knew you needed on April 1st… 5. We saved 60,803 meals through our partnership with Too Good To Go, which avoided 164,168 KG of C02e... which is equivalent to 72 flights from London to Tokyo! 6. We introduced our new grab & go snacking range in LEON Restaurants across the UK, stocking some incredible brands including RAISE Snacks , Soul Fruit , PROPER Snacks , SUPERBON & Tony's Chocolonely 7. Innovative new dishes came onto our menu: Hot Honey GFC, Bangin’ Bhaji Wrap, Chicken Caesar Burger, and our Honeycomb & Praline Dream drinks ranges, just to name a few. 8. We hosted our very own Lucky Katsino event, to celebrate the return of our Lucky Katsu. 9. ...And we still have so much more to come in 2025! Happy New Year everyone.

It's time for our favourite segment: LEON Legends! This week, we were off to LEON Bankside to chat to the brilliant Luca Galvanelli about his role as a General Manager and his journey at LEON... 1. Describe yourself in 3 emojis. 🎧🚴♂️🥐 2. Could you describe your role at LEON? I work as a General Manager at Leon Bankside. My role involves leading my team to success, maintaining a positive environment for both customers and staff. I also guide my team in providing excellent customer service and consistently delivering fresh, high-quality food every day.   3. What’s your favourite thing about working at LEON / biggest achievement? I have been working for LEON Restaurants since 2013. The best thing about this company has always been the fact that we are like a big 'family'—we know each other and help each other every day. I really enjoy training new joiners, and seeing them grow within the company makes me very happy.  My biggest achievement was taking over two restaurants that were both struggling and successfully bringing them back to the top.   4. What’s your favourite book or movie? For sure, my favourite movie is Top Gun (1986). I've probably watched it more than 20 times. I recently read I Don’t Take Requests, a page-turning memoir by legendary DJ Fat Tony. Heart-breaking, horrifying, funny, and shocking—each page brings something new, leaving you completely amazed that Tony is still alive. 5. Favourite LEON dish?   My favourite dish at Leon is the Halloumi muffin with extra bacon and extra egg. Delicious!   6. When you’re not working at LEON, where can we find you? You can definitely find me in my studio, making house music—my biggest passion since I was 20. Over the past 5 or 6 years, it has brought me a lot of satisfaction, with tracks released on some very cool labels around the world. I also love cycling, and almost every weekend you’ll find me around Greenwich and Blackheath, going up and down the hills.   7. If you were going to cook a dish for everyone, what would it would be? To be honest, I prefer eating over cooking, but if I really have to, I’d definitely make a proper pasta Bolognese using the recipe my grandma taught me, followed by a great glass of red wine, like Amarone.

We’re hiring an Ops Superstar 🚀 Are you ready to join a team that’s all about Naturally Good Fast Food and making a difference? We’re on the hunt for an Operations Manager to help us keep LEON running like clockwork. Think you’ve got what it takes? Or know someone who does? Click the link to apply 👉 https://bit.ly/4iv26Ew We’d love it if you could give this post a share – let’s spread the word far and wide. #Jobs #LEONRestaurants #HiringNow

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Ready for the big bang of Christmas flavours? 🎅🏻 Join our team as they unwrap the inspiration (and ingredients) behind The Christmas Cracker - the ultimate festive feast wrap. Warning: Video may contain bad Christmas cracker jokes 😉

We're back again with another LEON Legends shoutout, and this week we swung by LEON Ludgate to chat with the lovely Lena about her role as a GM. 1. Describe yourself in 3 emojis. 😻🧝♀️💃 2. Could you describe your role at LEON? 11 years ago I started in Bluewater as a Back of House team member and made my way up to a General Manager role. Right now, I'm General Manager at LEON Ludgate. My day-to-day role involves keeping my brilliant team happy and motivated to provide the best service to our guests. I'm a big believer in that without a team you are nothing. 3. What’s your favourite thing about working at LEON / biggest achievement? I have always been loyal to my LEON family and to my restaurant - so my favourite thing is people I work with. I love motivating and developing my team. As I know, If I could make my way up, everyone can. And If I see potential in someone, I'm not stopping them from achieving it - I will be beside them to grow and bloom. 4. What’s your favourite book or movie? Ooh this this is my all-time favourite: "Ring Around The Sun" by Clifford D. Simak. It's a fictional novel written about androids and the future. I wish they could make a film about this book. 5. Favourite LEON dish? The Grains & Greens Chicken Salad - always and forever. 6. When you’re not working at LEON, where can we find you? With my family 👶👫 farm, funfairs, playgrounds, seaside - name it and we will be there, as entertaining 2-year-old is not that simple 😅 7. If you were going to cook a dish for everyone, what would it would be? I'm a great baker - I would bake a honey cake. 🍰🍯🐝

It's the moment you've been waiting for: Our Christmas menu is here. This year, we’re wrapping things up a little differently. We’re going all in with the biggest bang yet. If you thought last year was tasty, you haven’t seen anything yet. See our full menu lineup: https://leon.co/menu/

RAISE are nut and seed clusters that fuel you AND give back 🫶🏻 We chatted with the wonderful founder of RAISE Snacks - Chester Robinson - to find out about RAISE’s unique origin story and the great work they do as a brand. Available as part of our brand new grab and go snack range at LEON Restaurants.

Get your snack on 🔥 You know what they say: good things come in small packages. Which is why LEON restaurants now have a brand new snacking range available, ready to grab and go. We’re so proud to be working with some seriously cool brands, who align so well with our ethos of doing good, doing your body good, and yes, tasting good too: Soul Fruit RAISE Snacks SUPERBON PROPER Snacks Tony's Chocolonely

We've given our dishes a spooky makeover for Halloween. They look frighteningly good, dontcha think? Which would you go for?