Restaurant owned by Man Utd legend Ryan Giggs suddenly closes down as customers given update on bookings & vouchers

A RESTAURANT co-owned by Premier League fable Ryan Giggs which closed down abruptly has fixed an update.

Staff of George's Dining Room and Bar successful Worsley, Manchester, were reportedly told by substance they'd been sacked past Friday.

In the days since, customers person made a drawstring of complaints successful online comments asking what volition hap with their acquisition vouchers purchased.

A spokesperson for the edifice told the Manchester Evening News: "We are presently successful the process of refunding each vouchers purchased which haven’t been redeemed.

"The bulk of these person been refunded and we volition beryllium successful interaction wrong the coming days with those outstanding.

"If you don’t perceive from america delight get successful interaction with the edifice directly." The interaction for the edifice is being fixed arsenic the email code info@georgesworsley.co.uk."

However, determination has been nary further accusation from the edifice astir the closure - with section rumours claiming the tract has already been taken over.

SUDDEN CLOSURE

Ex-Reds midfielder Giggs, 51, opened the venue connected Barton Road successful 2014 with 2 aged schoolhouse pals.

Signs connected the doorway connected January 31 said it was closed for the play "due to unforeseen circumstances".

However, texts sent to unit by bosses said the edifice had closed for good, reported the MEN.

The messages stated they "regret to denote that with a dense bosom we person nary alternate but to adjacent George's effectual immediately".

They added: "This is owed to the evident simplification successful commercialized and concern against the immense increases successful costs of operating the concern and the ongoing cost of living crisis."

Staff are said to person besides been told they volition beryllium paid immoderate outstanding wages successful "due course", arsenic good arsenic announcement payment, arsenic good arsenic redundancy pay for "those to whom it applies".

One unit subordinate told the quality outlet: "It came wholly retired of the blue, we were each expected to beryllium moving contiguous and past we got the substance messages through, we are each stunned."

When George's opened implicit a decennary ago, Giggs said it had been a lifelong imagination of his to ain a edifice alongside puerility friends Kelvin Gregory and Bernie Taylor.

He had described it arsenic a "really antithetic offering for the area", with a motorboat lawsuit attended by erstwhile Manchester United teammates Bryan Robson, Nicky Butt, and Gary Neville.

In 2015, a caller terrace was added to the restaurant.

Giggs has besides since teamed up with Sky Sports pundit Neville connected the GG Hospitality Group, which launched Hotel Football astatine Old Trafford and the Stock Exchange Hotel successful the metropolis centre.

The Sun has approached George's and Giggs' reps for comment.

RETURN TO DUGOUT

Elsewhere, Giggs has helped to alteration Salford City FC aft returning to the dugout for the League Two outfit astir 3 years aft stepping down arsenic Wales caput coach.

He has taken a much hands-on relation with the archetypal squad successful caller months and has been spotted successful the dugout alongside manager Karl Robinson during games.

The Wales and Manchester United fable is simply a co-owner of the Ammies alongside his erstwhile Red Devils teammates Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and investor David Beckham.

Giggs besides began moving arsenic the club's manager of football last year.

However, the former Welsh nationalist squad manager present seems to beryllium lending his acquisition of coaching to the unit astatine Moor Lane excessively arsenic helium takes up a lucifer time relation connected the touchline.

The prima became manager of his state successful 2018, earlier being arrested connected battle charges 2 years later.

Giggs, who has ever denied immoderate wrongdoing, stepped down from the relation successful June 2022 up of his trial, where a assemblage failed to scope a verdict.

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