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In October 1994, Wilmott found Mary-Jane Brook and Nelly Benstead to run the first outlet. The first bar was opened in December 1994 in Sutton, London, town centre [2] by Bass Taverns, run by Sir Ian Prosser, who also owned Fork and Pitcher and Harvester. Bass bought Harvester in 1994. In its style, many pub chains have followed where All Bar ...
In September 2010, Mitchells & Butlers bought the 22 restaurants of the (upmarket) Ha Ha! chain from the Bay Restaurant Group for £19.5 million. Twelve were turned into All Bar One and six into Browns Restaurants .
It operates the price comparison websites moneysupermarket.com, and travelsupermarket.com, and the financial information website moneysavingexpert.com. It was founded in 1987 by Simon Nixon and Duncan Cameron as a mortgage subscription business before switching to a price comparison business in 1993. In 2019 it acquired Maple Syrup Media which ...
Spudulike Ltd is a restaurant chain and franchise specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as "spuds" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974. [1] [2] Spudulike sold baked potatoes with various fillings, other potato based meals, and side dishes. [2] [3] Spudulike Ltd was founded by Kim Culley and ...
In 1997 the chain identified its primary competitors as the All Bar One and Pitcher & Piano bar chains. [6] In 1998 Grosvenor Inns changed its name to The Slug and Lettuce Group, reflecting the fact that the now 22-strong chain had become the company's sole focus. [ 19 ]
By 1996, a carvery was £6.95; by the mid-1990s there were many more pub-restaurants to directly compete with [4] Not all Toby Restaurants had a self-serve Toby Carvery section - the Forest Gate (named after Charnwood Forest) in Loughborough added a carvery in November 1996, at a cost of £200,000. The company headquarters was Hagley House in ...
Wetherspoon's low-price food and drink offering is aimed at the mass market. A large standardised menu is available all day in every pub, cultivating a perception of "unpretentious good value". [7] Wetherspoons claims to be "the only large pub firm which opens all its pubs early in the morning", serving breakfast and coffee. [25]
The Oxford Bar apparently became a public house in 1811, although it was a confectioner's shop in 1843. [1] It was disponed on 30 October 1893 to Andrew Wilson, wines and spirits merchant, and thereafter remained a public bar. The Oxford Bar retains its original compartmentalised form, which many other local bars have lost.