A takeaway in Reading has applied to keep selling food until 4am at night.
The business called Rancheese specialises in pizza, burgers and desserts at its location in Caversham Road.
Other menu items include loaded fries, wraps, doner kebabs, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings.
The owners have applied to keep on selling food until 4am each night.
This has been submitted in a licensing application to Reading Borough Council.
In order to keep on selling food and soft drinks past 11pm, businesses require a premises licence from the council for late-night refreshment.
A statutory consultation into the application is currently live.
You can respond to it by emailing licensing@reading.gov.uk. The deadline for responses falls on Friday, February 27.
Until recently, the premises was occupied by ‘Smash N Grill’, which appears on streetview imagery from September 2024 to May last year.
A photo uploaded a week ago shows the premises with new ‘Rancheese’ branding.
The business was incorporated as Orbit Taxis in December 2024, before being rebranded as Rancheese last December.
The premises in Caversham Road was previously occupied by Big Jack’s Peri Peri from 2020 to 2023, and Caversham News before that.
The road is a busy thoroughfare leading to Caversham Bridge and Richfield Avenue, which is home to Rivermead Leisure Centre, River Academy secondary school and Reading Festival, which is held annually in August.
