Originally Posted by
Swiss Tony
Just to add my 'really, are you sure' to this. I can see a media report suggesting that around 60 McD's were open on Christmas day in the UK, but with very few likely customers, I suspect that's not going to be central London.
The situation is admittedly evolving quite rapidly now that the small Tesco stores etc are allowed to open but I found this article that may be some use from a few years back. Unfortunately the link to restaurants doesn't work properly...
http://londonist.com/2011/12/london-...christmas-day#
I see the report you're referring to. Classic DM drivel so I won't link to it, but the quote from McD's at the end is on point:
Originally Posted by Ronald McDonald
We expect there to be about 60 stores in the UK that remain open this year [2011], all in areas where there is a high demand for us to stay open, and where there are a large number of people who perhaps do not celebrate Christmas.
There have always been a small number of our stores which choose to open on December 25.