High Street bakery Greggs has finally confirmed its plans to reopen following the coronavirus lockdown.
The popular chain will once again be serving food to the British public in just a matter of weeks - following in the footsteps of other foodie favourites including Nando's and Burger King.
Greggs will open around 800 of its stores up and down the UK in just a few weeks as lockdown measures are eased - and it won't be a moment too soon for fans, reports the Manchester Evening News.
A spokesperson told the Sun: "We have planned and delivered robust shop trials using our new operational safety measures and they have progressed well, allowing us to now move to open an increased number of our shops from mid-June."
Greggs had originally wanted to begin reopening stores last month, but halted the trial because of fears that 'excessive numbers of customers' may have flocked to stores.
The trial was supposed to be taking place in the Newcastle area, with around 20 shops operating with social distancing measures in place.
At the time, a spokesperson for Greggs said: "Due to significant interest in our 20-shop trial, and the risk that excessive numbers of customers may plan to visit Greggs, we will now initially operate these trials behind closed doors in order to effectively test our new operational safety measures.
"We will continue to review this and will invite walk-in customers into our shops only when we can be confident of doing so in the controlled manner we intended."
