UK Business Succession Index

Restaurant / Cafe succession in East of England

1,010 of 5,310 restaurant / cafe companies in East of England — 19% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 6th highest of 11 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured5,310
Director aged 60+1,010
Exposure rate19%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
5,310
Companies measured
1,010
Director 60+
279
Director 70+
19%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; restaurant / cafe nationally runs at 18.2%.

MeasureCompanies
Restaurant / Cafe companies in East of England measured5,310
Oldest director aged 60 or over1,010
Oldest director aged 70 or over279

Of the 1,010 with a director over 60, 77 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Restaurant / Cafe in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West1,26723.2%
Scotland1,29521.4%
Wales61021.3%
South East1,69020.1%
North East50420%
East Midlands65617.9%
North West1,33717.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber93116.9%

Other trades in East of England

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65238.7%
Lettings5,62339.6%
Retail3,69225%
Other Leisure3,01130.7%
Investment2,99930.9%
Agriculture2,85060.3%
Property Development2,64745.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,59737.4%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

See all Restaurant / Cafe succession data or everything in East of England.

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ExitRadar, "Restaurant / Cafe succession in East of England", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-restaurant/east-of-england/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.