Buddies chain closes October 2020
*Updated post* View through window of closed restaurant, October 2020. I originally wrote about my obsession with Northamptonshire local restaurant-chain Buddies in October 2018. Since then it changed ownership in late 2018/early 2019 (controversially changing the burger menu..swiftly changing it back after customers raged about it on Twitter). Then, like every other restaurant it fell silent as lock down started for bloody flipping Coronavirus in March 2020. Whilst other restaurants began to re-open, Buddies…remained silent. There were some intermittent noises online about take away orders but nothing very clear. Mostly an eerie quiet both at their restaurants and their online presence, which to be honest has never been great. And in October 2020 it was finally announced that the whole chain of 5 restaurants (there had been 9 when I wrote about it but the new owners had closed 4) would stay closed permanently with the owners blaming a combination of Coronavirus and di...