Restaurant Group

The Big Interview: Tim Bird

07-Dec-2011 By Phil Mellows

Finally free of the corporate shackles and running his own pubs, Tim Bird, one of the pub industry’s foremost operations people, has been marshalling the skills and experience accumulated over decades to tackle one of the trade’s knottiest problems. Dog...

Restaurant Group refinances on sales uplift

10-Nov-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

The Restaurant Group (TRG), owner of the Brunning & Price pub chain, Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito brands, has completed a refinancing exercise that has given the business a new five-year, £140m bank facility.

Brunning & Price ramp up pub-restaurant operation

11-Jul-2011 By MA reporter

The Restaurant Group (TRG) is to ramp up the roll out of its Brunning & Price (B&P) pub-restaurant operation.

B&P to reopen 2nd Blubeckers

09-Apr-2010 By The PMA Team

Brunning & Price (B&P), the gastropub operator owned by the Restaurant Group, is set to reopen a second Blubeckers site in its own trading style.

Punch sells two freeholds to TRG

06-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team

Punch Taverns has sold two freeholds to The Restaurant Group for £1.5m — the sale is in line with the Punch policy of offering sitting tenants the chance to buy their pubs.

Staff take tips demo to Parliament

19-Feb-2009 By Tony Halstead

Hands off our tips — that was the message from bar and restaurant staff at a demonstration in Parliament. The protest aimed to urge the Government...

The Restaurant Group on track to deliver

05-Jan-2009

Frankie & Benny's operator The Restaurant Group has seen turnover slow in the final seven weeks of the year, reflecting the consumer...

City Diary - 5 June

05-Jun-2008 By The PMA Team

Bay moves are not so sluggish City Diary has noticed a bit of hopping around in Norwich by Bay Restaurant Group, the company that bought the foodier...

The Restaurant Group reveals sales increase

05-Mar-2008 By Ewan Turney

Restaurant and pub operator The Restaurant Group has revealed a 5.5% increase in like-for-like sales on last year. The company, which acquired the...

Gastro chain set for growth

10-Jan-2008 By The PMA Team

The Restaurant Group (TRG) is targeting five openings a year in the 14-strong Brunning & Price (B&P) pub business it bought for £32m last...

Blubeckers gobbles up rural pub sites

04-May-2006

Blubeckers, the pub-restaurant format bought by the Restaurant Group last year, has acquired two new sites and targeted four more by the end of the...

What the Sunday papers said

25-Nov-2002

The Mail on SundayBANKS are hesitating to lend new money to Robert Breare's Noble House pubs and restaurant group after a severe downturn in...