Restaurant / Cafe succession in Northern Ireland

Name: Restaurant / Cafe business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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272 of 1,648 restaurant / cafe companies in Northern Ireland — 16.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,648

Director aged 60+272

Exposure rate16.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

1,648

Companies measured

272

Director 60+

Director 70+

16.5%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Restaurant / Cafe companies in Northern Ireland measured	1,648
Oldest director aged 60 or over	272
Oldest director aged 70 or over	61

Of the 272 with a director over 60, 34 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

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,267	23.2%
Scotland	1,295	21.4%
Wales	610	21.3%
South East	1,690	20.1%
North East	504	20%
East of England	1,010	19%
East Midlands	656	17.9%
North West	1,337	17.6%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,262	43.8%
Retail	1,010	25.8%
Investment	939	43.6%
Consultancy Services	844	36.4%
General Construction	789	40.2%
Agriculture	758	46.2%
Other Leisure	705	36.5%
Property Development	703	46.3%

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 Northern Ireland.

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ExitRadar, "Restaurant / Cafe succession in Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-restaurant/northern-ireland/

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.