Coffee and Cocktail Chain Grind Will Open New Restaurant in Greenwich | Eater London

"Opening at the former site of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Italian in Greenwich, this will be the chain’s biggest London restaurant, featuring a 160-cover dining room alongside a takeaway coffee bar. Owned by David Abrahamovitch, the group is pursuing a national and travel-hub expansion—including a planned first station site at London Bridge (SE1), further airport and train-station openings, and ambitions to sell its coffee in supermarkets—and supplemented those plans with a £750,000 crowdfunding round that closed at 255% of target. The crowdfunding page touted ambitious operational goals for the coming year (a 200-strong team making 1 million cups of coffee, smashing 80,000 avocados, breaking 500,000 eggs and serving 75,000 of its famous Espresso Martinis). Rooted in Antipodean all-day, all-night café culture, the concept has evolved into small-plate territory to bridge breakfast, lunch and evening menus." - James Hansen