A yet-to-be-named drive-thru restaurant could soon be open at an Asda supermarket in Dundee.
A planning application has been lodged for a drive-thru on “excess car parking” at the Milton of Craigie store.
But it has not yet been decided which food chain will move in if permission is approved.
The proposal by retail giant Euro Garages (EG Group) states that it will be “a national food service on a franchise basis”.
Explaining the redevelopment, the applicant states that the car parking spaces are “surplus and rarely utilised”.
Drive-thru franchise
If approved by Dundee City Council planners, the new drive-thru is expected to create 30 new jobs – five full time and 25 part time.
The planned opening hours of the new development are 6am until 11pm Monday to Saturday.
An earlier closing time of 1opm is proposed for Sundays and bank holidays.
Plans also include 71 parking spaces for the restaurant and a circulation road.
Nineteen “semi-mature” trees and some landscaping will be removed if planning permission is granted. However the proposal states that there will be “replacement planting proposed to mitigate the loss”.
Previous approval
Consent was granted last December for the erection of a drive-thru coffee shop on the site but it was never built.
EG Group bought the Asda chain from Walmart last year for $6.8billion. The takeover received final approval last month.
Billionaire brothers Mohsin Issa and Zuber Issa started the EG Group from one petrol filling station in Blackburn. This latest expansion follows the launch of their first “healthy fast food” chain drive-thru.
EG Group runs more than 70 restaurants across the UK and Europe.