TGI Friday’s UK homeowners have gone into administration, casting uncertainty over the destiny of 87 branches and roughly 4,500 jobs.
The model which owns TGI Fridays, Hostmore, confirmed it had introduced within the directors and has not but secured a purchaser for the American restaurant chain.
Based on the TGI Fridays web site, the model employs about 4,500 folks within the UK, however the variety of workers members affected is unknown.
A Hostmore spokesperson stated: “The board is immensely happy with all Hostmore colleagues, each in retailer and within the help centre, who labored tirelessly to execute a turnaround programme over the previous 18 months and to ship a profitable end result on the proposed acquisition of TGI Fridays, Inc.
They added that they’d inherited a “difficult set of circumstances” as they sought methods to cut back prices.
“Sadly, all the board’s efforts to implement a long-lasting resolution to help the long-term monetary way forward for the enterprise got here in opposition to a extremely difficult buying and selling and macroeconomic backdrop, and efforts to create worth for shareholders via the proposed acquisition of TGI Fridays, whereas well-advanced, encountered opposed occasions exterior of the board’s management.”
TGI Fridays is understood for its bistro-style American meals comparable to burgers, ribs, and loaded nachos.
After large success within the US after being based in New York in 1965, the model opened its first UK outlet in Birmingham in 1986. It unfold nationwide with well-known shops in spots together with London’s Covent Backyard.
With Hostmore now administration, it’s unsure whether or not one other purchaser can be discovered for some or all of TGI Friday’s UK chains. Restaurant shops will stay open in the intervening time.
TGI Fridays was rebranded as Fridays in 2019 however returned to its authentic title in 2023
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TGI Fridays eating places within the UK in danger
- Aberdeen Seaside
- Aberdeen Union Sq.
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Birmingham
- Birmingham NEC
- Bluewater
- Bolton
- Bournemouth
- Bracknell
- Braehead
- Braintree
- Brighton Marina
- Cabot Circus
- Cardiff Newport Highway
- Cardiff St David’s
- Castleford
- Cheadle
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cheshire Oaks
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Cribbs Causeway
- Croydon
- Derby
- Doncaster
- Durham
- Edinburgh
- Enfield
- Fareham
- Fort Kinnaird
- Gateshead
- Glasgow Buchanan Avenue
- Glasgow Fort
- Gloucester Quays
- Halifax
- Excessive Wycombe
- Jersey
- Lakeside Quay
- Lakeside Retail Park
- Leeds Junction 27
- Leeds Wellington Bridge Avenue
- Leeds White Rose
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Liverpool One
- Liverpool Speke
- London Leicester Sq.
- London Stratford Metropolis
- London the O2
- Manchester Royal Change
- Meadowhall
- Metro Centre Gateshead
- Milton Keynes
- Milton Keynes Stadium
- Newcastle Eldon Sq.
- Newport Friars Stroll
- Northampton
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Prestwich
- Studying
- Romford
- Rushden Lakes
- Sale
- Sheffield
- Silverburn
- Solihull
- Southampton Retail Park
- Staines
- Stevenage
- Teesside
- Telford
- Trafford Centre
- Trinity Leeds
- Walsall
- Watford Central
- Watford North
- Wembley
- West Quay
