Do you have a branch of Gail’s in your neighbourhood?
I’m fascinated by the sudden debate about the desirability or otherwise of having a branch of Gail’s in your neighbourhood.
Since the end of the first Covid lockdown, we’ve had a Gail’s at the corner of my street in London’s South Bank, so close that I can see it from my flat window. I use it all the time to buy lunch or have coffee with friends. I know and like Walthamstow Village where there is opposition to a new branch of Gail’s.
So I’ll follow the debate. Meanwhile today’s “Guardian” article tells me something I didn’t know – the origin of the chain’s name: “Gail’s was founded by an Israeli baker, Gail Mejia, in the 1990s, initially as a wholesale bakery in Hendon, supplying London’s restaurants. The site still exists and is described as its ‘mother’ bakery.”