Spudulike is a potato restaurant that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974, by David and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, Spudulike was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand the business as a franchise operation and create a well-loved brand throughout the UK, with a brief but utterly unsuccessful flirtation with the Irish market in the then British brand obsessed Liffey Valley shopping centre (home of one of the last Harry Ramsden's in Ireland amongst other British brands).