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 administrators and has not but secured a purchaser for the American restaurant chain.
In line with the TGI Fridays web site, the model employs about 4,500 individuals within the UK, however the variety of workers members affected is unknown.
A Hostmore spokesperson mentioned: “The board is immensely happy with all Hostmore colleagues, each in retailer and within the assist centre, who labored tirelessly to execute a turnaround programme over the previous 18 months and to ship a profitable outcome on the proposed acquisition of TGI Fridays, Inc.
They added that they’d inherited a “difficult set of circumstances” as they sought methods to scale back prices.
“Sadly, all the board’s efforts to implement an enduring answer to assist 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 by means of the proposed acquisition of TGI Fridays, whereas well-advanced, encountered opposed occasions outdoors of the board’s management.”
TGI Fridays is thought for its bistro-style American meals similar to burgers, ribs, and loaded nachos.
After huge 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 taking a look at administration, it’s unsure whether or not one other purchaser will likely 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 unique 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
