The Penmaenmawr branch was a former Little Chef restaurant located on the A55, and was the second restaurant to close on the A55 after the closure of Lloc in the late 1980s (now 'The Dragon's Rest'), and before Kinmel Park East/West in 2012 (now Starbucks on both sites), then Halkyn in 2015 (now Burger King) and Northop Hall in 2017 (now Starbucks) - and this leaves with Bangor being the only restaurant on the A55 to remain open!
The Little Chef first opened at a service station in the 1960s near the coast of North Wales just outside of Colwyn Bay & Llandudno, and it was the sixteenth restaurant out of the first twenty-five. The building it was housed in was quite prefabricated like Little Chefs were in the 1960s.
The Little Chef lasted at Penmaenmawr for more than 35 years until it finally closed in 2007 as a part of the sale to RCapital. The original building has since been demolished and a new farm shop and cafe, known as the 'Puffin', was built, and opened in 2014.
The farm shop and cafe closed at the end of 2015, blaming roadworks for the drop in trade.