{"id":176031,"date":"2023-05-26T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=176031"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:59:30","slug":"frankie-and-bennys-and-chiquito-close-tomorrow-full-list-of-17-axed-eateries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/frankie-and-bennys-and-chiquito-close-tomorrow-full-list-of-17-axed-eateries\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie and Benny’s and Chiquito close tomorrow \u2013 full list of 17 axed eateries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito are set to close the doors of their restaurants across the UK for the final time tomorrow (May 27).<\/p>\n

Owners The Restaurant Group announced earlier this year that it was looking to save an eye-watering \u00a35million by closing \u201closs-making\u201d restaurants.<\/p>\n

Around 35 of the restaurants were identified, with 17 of them shutting for good this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Of those 17, 12 of them are Frankie and Benny sites, four are Chiquito restaurants and one is the rarely-spotted Firejacks.<\/p>\n

It follows the closure of 23 earlier this month, six of which were Frankie and Bennies in Blackpool, Chesterfield, Tamworth and Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n

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A spokesman for TRG said: \u201cWe announced a review of our leisure estate in March and made the difficult decision to exit some of our Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working closely with our impacted teams and will look to redeploy colleagues to neighbouring sites across our wider estate wherever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Closure include Frankie and Benny's branches in Aberdeen, Leeds, Livingston and two in Peterborough, while Chiquitos in Leeds and Rochester are among the closures.<\/p>\n

The official last day of trading for the restaurants being forced to close is Saturday May 27.<\/p>\n

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