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that’s a wrap on wagamama conference 2026 🤩   last week over 500 of our business leaders came together in leeds for our annual conference! there’s been a lot of excitement from our teams for this one, and it’s safe to say it was another incredible couple of days, as we looked back on the year just gone and get ready for another big one    with general managers, head chefs, noodle hq, our central production unit and our amazing business partners, we came together to celebrate our focus for the upcoming year: becoming famed for hospitality    exploring what it means to go above and beyond for our guests, we held an inspiring q+a session with a legend of hospitality, the one and only fred sirieix. plus we hosted talks with our talented development chefs headed up by the brilliant steven mangleshot. and, we came together in teams to workshop how we as leaders can steer the wagamama ship towards game changing hospitality   of course, all of this was rounded off with our annual awards ceremony, where we celebrated the leaders who have already been going to the next level in their restaurant + at hq. with everyone suited and booted and aj odudu on the mic hosting, the energy and excitement in the room was fantastic. we want to say a huge congratulations to all the well deserved winners on the night 👏   we can’t wait to see how our general managers and head chefs take their experience back to their teams, so that we can come together to make our mission a reality, and become famed for hospitality over the next year ❤️