UK Business Succession Index

Restaurant / Cafe succession in Northern Ireland

279 of 1,714 restaurant / cafe companies in Northern Ireland (16.3%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,714
Director aged 60+279
Exposure rate16.3%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
1,714
Companies measured
279
Director 60+
62
Director 70+
16.3%
Exposure rate

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

MeasureCompanies
Restaurant / Cafe companies in Northern Ireland measured1,714
Oldest director aged 60 or over279
Oldest director aged 70 or over62

Of the 279 with a director over 60, 36 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

Region60+Rate
South West1,28522.9%
Scotland1,34121.1%
Wales58920.1%
South East1,87519.6%
North East49019%
East of England1,18517.9%
North West1,35417.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber97417.2%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade60+Rate
Lettings1,34744.1%
Retail1,05225.8%
Investment97043.9%
Consultancy Services88536.5%
General Construction81740.4%
Agriculture78946.7%
Investment / Fund Management73139.4%
Property Development72246.3%

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, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-restaurant/northern-ireland/

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.