Restaurant / Cafe succession in London

Name: Restaurant / Cafe business succession in London
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3,344 of 21,132 restaurant / cafe companies in London (15.8%) have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 10th highest of 11 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured21,132

Director aged 60+3,344

Exposure rate15.8%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

21,132

Companies measured

3,344

Director 60+

914

Director 70+

15.8%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; restaurant / cafe nationally runs at 17.9%.

Measure	Companies
Restaurant / Cafe companies in London measured	21,132
Oldest director aged 60 or over	3,344
Oldest director aged 70 or over	914

Of the 3,344 with a director over 60, 258 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Restaurant / Cafe in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,285	22.9%
Scotland	1,341	21.1%
Wales	589	20.1%
South East	1,875	19.6%
North East	490	19%
East of England	1,185	17.9%
North West	1,354	17.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	974	17.2%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	19,703	32.8%
Consultancy Services	17,832	27.4%
Investment	13,221	28.4%
Investment / Fund Management	10,973	33%
Media	9,157	28.2%
Other Leisure	8,944	26.1%
Retail	8,509	14.5%
IT Services / Consultancy	6,912	15.2%

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 →

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ExitRadar, "Restaurant / Cafe succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-restaurant/london/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.