TGI Fridays has announced the contiguous closure of 35 restaurants astir the UK - you tin spot if your section outlet is affected by searching with your postcode connected our interactive map.
The US-themed diner concatenation is to chopped conscionable implicit 1,000 jobs aft its proprietor went into medication past month. More than a 3rd of the UK’s 86 TGI Fridays restaurants volition beryllium unopen down consecutive distant but a rescue woody has kept the remaining 51 outlets open.
It is estimated astir 2,400 unit volition clasp their jobs nether the woody with Breal Capital and Calveton. Among the 35 restaurants closing down is the subdivision astatine Hagley Road successful Birmingham which was the archetypal TGI Fridays edifice successful the UK, opening successful 1986.
The determination to adjacent down the restaurants was slammed arsenic a ‘disgrace’ by unions. Bryan Simpson, Unite Union’s pb organiser for hospitality, said: "To adjacent venues and fastener radical retired of their workplace with perfectly nary announcement is simply a motivation outrage."
Daniel Smith, elder managing manager of Teneo, who has been appointed associated head of the business, said the rescue woody agreed with Breal Capital and Calveton UK, would support the marque live successful the UK.
He said: “"The casual eating assemblage has been adversely impacted by well-publicised pressures connected discretionary spend. This transaction with Breal Capital and Calveton UK preserves a important proportionality of jobs and volition hopefully supply the concern with the stableness and enactment it needs to retrieve and grow. We convey each employees and different cardinal stakeholders for their enactment astatine this hard time."
Julie McEwan, CEO of TGI Fridays UK, said: "TGI Fridays is simply a much-loved marque with a affluent heritage. The quality contiguous marks the commencement of a affirmative aboriginal for our concern pursuing a precise challenging play for the casual eating assemblage arsenic a whole. We look to the aboriginal with assurance that the TGI Fridays marque volition proceed to pull loyal and caller guests."
She added: "We are devastated for our colleagues who volition beryllium leaving TGIs and convey them for their loyalty and publication during their clip with us.”
Full database of 35 TGI Friday restaurants closed down
Barnsley
Birmingham
Bracknell
Brighton Marina
Bristol Cabot Circus
Cardiff Newport Road
Chelmsford
Cheltenham
Croydon
Derby
Dundee
Durham
Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird
Enfield
Gateshead
Gloucester Quays
Halifax
Jersey
Leeds
Leeds Trinity
Leicester
Lincoln
Manchester Royal Exchange
Newcastle Eldon Square
Newport
Northampton
Prestwich
Romford
Sale
Solihull
Southampton West Quay South
Speke
Sutton Coldfield
Swansea
Watford North
Full database of 51 TGI Fridays restaurants staying open:
Bluewater
Trafford Centre
Meadowhall
Aberdeen Union Square
Metrocentre
Basildon
Glasgow Fort
Milton Keynes Stadium
Braehead
Wembley
Birmingham NEC
Glasgow
Junction 27
Castleford
Lakeside Quay
Teesside
Bolton
Norwich
St Davids
Doncaster
Lakeside
Fareham
Liverpool One
Stevenage
White Rose
Cribbs Causeway
Rushden Lakes
Stoke connected Trent
Southampton
Silverburn
Watford Central
Aberdeen Beach
Braintree
Bournemouth
Stratford
High Wycombe
Cheshire Oaks
Walsall
Milton Keynes
Sheffield
Nottingham
Edinburgh
Coventry
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Telford
The O2
Staines
Crawley
Reading
Cheadle
Leicester Square