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...Peel Hunt analysts note that, with consumer confidence falling markedly, Restaurant Group has had to offer 50 per cent off mains at its core Frankie & Benny’s, Coast to Coast and Chiquito outlets....
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...He made only sporadic visits to the Hollywood branch of the Friars Club — a regular haunt of Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack — before deciding it wasn’t worth it....
...This is not good news for casual dining chains like Frankie & Benny’s and Chiquito’s....
...Its outgoing chief executive Benny Higgins once spent £18,000 on earthbound cabs in just 8 months. His mode of departure in February has not yet been disclosed. matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...Restaurant Group, the troubled FTSE 250 company behind chains such as Garfunkel’s and Frankie & Benny’s, said it is making progress with turnround efforts but sales continued to slide at the start of this...
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...Restaurant Group This time last year, Restaurant Group (RTN), the owner of chains including Garfunkel’s and Frankie & Benny’s, was a leisure sector darling....
...One senses unease in Eastleigh at the fact that the comedian Benny Hill is its most famous son or daughter....
...The Frankie and Benny’s chain enjoyed a “sizeable uplift” in revenue and profit, while the Chiquito outlets benefited from the popularity of Mexican food....
...Andrew Carnegie made it, as did Charlie Chaplin, The Beatles, Benny Hill and Burberry. Countless others have flopped....
...“There is a sense that Dartford is going places,” says Hadj Benny, a Muslim who has lived in the town for 40 years....
...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s Los Angeles correspondent....
...The leading internal candidates for the post would be Trevor Matthews, the Australian head of the life and pensions business; and Keith Skeoch, who leads Standard Life Investments, the asset management arm...
...Matthew Freud, the well-connected British public-relations baron whose company has worked extensively on Red, says: “It is licensing nothing but a powerful idea....
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