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Beefeater, Balmoral Inn, Southampton Harlow Mill Beefeater, Harlow. Beefeater is a chain of over 140 pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by Whitbread. [1] The chain's name references both the English figure of the beefeater and its menu's meat (particularly beef) offering.
Whitbread is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England.The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields.
In 2001, it added Arena, Ember Inns, Flares, Goose, Sizzling Pub Co, Browns, Alex (in Germany), and Inn Keeper's Lodge to its list of brands. [17] In July 2006, Mitchells & Butlers purchased 239 pub restaurants ( Beefeater and Brewers Fayre without a Premier Inn ) from Whitbread for £497 million to strengthen its food business ahead of the ...
The (current) decor and livery would become more widely adopted in 1998, but many sites retained the former livery and insignia until each site was revamped, sometimes at great costs (£500,000 at 1998 prices). Many sites would require a revamp anyway by the late 1990s, regardless of any new insignia.
The pub serves several unique drinks, including a "Beefeater bitter" and "Yeoman 1485" beers (1485 refers to the year the Beefeaters were founded). It also features copious amounts of Beefeater Gin. [1] [4] The pub enforces a strict formal dress code. [3]
In 2008, it bought 44 more standalone Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites, in exchange for 21 Express by Holiday Inn hotels. [ 5 ] On 31 July 2008, Harvester was featured on an episode of the BBC One show Rogue Restaurants and was shown to be operating without regard to certain food hygiene regulations.
Berni Inn was sold to Whitbread in 1995, who converted the outlets into their own Beefeater restaurants. [3] Aldo Berni died in 1997 at the age of 88 in Bristol. Frank died 10 July 2000, aged 96, in Jersey. [4] [8] Their brother Marco managed Harvey's Restaurant in Bristol in the 1960s. [4]
Later that year, Inside Retail included Barbeques Galore on its list of the 20 coolest retailers for 2020. [9] In 2021, Barbeques Galore won Gold at the Sydney Design Awards for its new concept store in Everton Park, QLD, [ 10 ] and in 2022 was a winner at the Australian Retail Innovators Awards for the development and launch of the BBQ Legends ...