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Brewers Fayre is a licensed pub restaurant chain, with 161 locations across the UK as of August 2018. [2] Owned by Whitbread , [ 3 ] Brewers Fayre restaurants are known for serving traditional British pub food and for their Sunday Carvery .
However in 2006, Whitbread sold majority of its standalone sites (Beefeater and Brewers Fayre without a Premier Inn) to Mitchells & Butlers, [3] who closed all the sites and re-branded them to Harvester and Toby Carvery. Whitbread's refurbishment programme was completed in 2008; the last site was the Woolpack outside Ashford in Kent.
Harvester is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. The first, The George Inn, opened in 1983 in Morden, South London . The chain, set up by Courage Brewery to compete with Whitbread 's Beefeater restaurants and Grand Metropolitan 's Berni Inns , [ 1 ] is currently run by Mitchells & Butlers .
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 introduction of a smoking ban in enclosed public spaces in England in 2007. [18] It had first announced its interest in April 2006. [19]
Brewers Fayre is a pub-restaurant brand which was created in 1979. The pubs are designed to look and feel like traditional local pubs but with a particularly strong family presence. There are around 145 pubs across the country. [50] In April 2024 Whitbread announced plans to sell 126 unprofitable Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurants.
As of 2011 the building was a public house and restaurant in the Brewers Fayre chain. In August 2013 the building was sold and has been refurbished and re-opened in December 2013 as a food-led real ale pub operated by Brunning and Price. [5]
As with most buffets, [citation needed] there was a lower price at lunchtime than evenings, and a slightly higher charge was levied at weekends and during bank holidays. [2] [3] In March 2016, it was announced that following a strategic corporate review, all Taybarns Restaurants would close and convert to pub restaurants of Brewers Fayre.
By the late 1990s, the pub restaurant scene in the UK was beginning a renaissance, if not starting to boom; the era of pub restaurants across the UK began to pick up haste. By late 1998, the price of the main carvery meal was now lowered to £5.95. Puddings came with the Toby Bottomless Custard Jug. By 1999 the company was run by Bass Leisure ...