M11 Birchanger Green Services

Reviewed by gaz on Oct 21, 2011 | 0 comments

Opened: 1995 Original owner: Welcome Break Current Owner: Welcome Break Trivia: Reputed cost to build was £10,000,000 One of the first Welcome Breaks to feature (in 1995) a Cafe Primo (before now they had been Cafe Forte) and a MacDonalds. Welcome Break had negotiated a long term turnover related lease with MacDonalds, who ran the MacDonalds stores with the MSA. This was different to Granada’s tie up with Burger King, which was a franchise. Located very near the entrance to London Stanstead Airport, off what was the worst motorway junction in the country for congestion (the junction has since been improved to divert Airport traffic via a sub junction.) Mentioned in a poem written by a local about the...

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