Third pub for Flying Kiwi
A Kiwi chef has added a third pub to his group of Norfolk inns.
Chris Coubrough, owner of Flying Kiwi Inns, has taken on a private lease at the Kings Head, Letheringsett. He and wife Jo also plan to open another pub this year.
Around £130,000 has been invested in the King's Head, which has an outside bar, maze and children's area. Two children's menus are offered to cater for different age groups. The pub holds 90 covers and 200 outside. A barbecue is offered at weekends. The pub has its own paddock of cows, which supplies meat for the pub, and chickens supplying eggs.
Three rooms will open on 1 November.
Coubrough opened his first site, the Crown Hotel, at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, in 2003 and his second site the Crown at East Rudham, in June 2008.
He said: "It is a great time to expand, with prices so cheap. Grow at the rate your staff are ready to grow. I am not aiming to expand to a set number. Buy what you want, but if you are buying just to get to 10 then don't buy them. The key to success is the great people who work for us, who we look after."
