Castlebar OBriens Sandwich bar at De La Salle Place, has won the award of Shop of the year at the OBriens conference in Dublin, after beating competition from 120 OBriens outlets across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The franchise owner Laura Hill says We have seen the business consistently grow since we opened in 2001 with our catering experiencing significant development; this award is great recognition for us all, particularly as we work hard to maintain high brand standards, ensure customer satisfaction and ultimately run a very successful franchise business.

Fiacra Nagle, OBriens chief executive of the OBriens sandwich franchise said: The shop of the Year title reflects a simply superb performance by Laura and her team throughout the past year. Results are based on a wide variety of criteria ranging from the finest customer service to best cost of sales, basically an all-round first class service business.