Restaurant Group Plc
RTN:LN
Overview
Company Profile
The Restaurant Group is one of the UK's largest independent restaurant groups. All of the various brands, which take in restaurants, cafes and bars, are situated in the value-for-money sector of the market. The Restaurant Group operates around 240 restaurants nationwide.
Classification
Sector Consumer Discretionary
Industry Restaurants & Bars
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Alan Jackson
Non-Executive Chairman
Alan joined The Restaurant Group plc as Executive Chairman in March 2001 and became non-executive Chairman from January 2006. He has a wealth of experience in the leisure sector. For 18 years, from 1973 to 1991, he occupied various positions within Whitbread, principally Managing Director of Beefeater steakhouses and also the Whitbread restaurant division where he was responsible for the creation and development of Beefeater, Travel Inns and TGI Friday brands. After the Beer Orders in 1991 he founded his own business which became Inn Business Group plc in 1995 and was subsequently acquired by Punch in 1999. He chaired Oriental Restaurant Group plc until its sale to Noble House in 2000. Currently Alan is non-executive Chairman of Playtech plc.
Danny Breithaupt
Chief Executive Officer
Danny joined The Restaurant Group in 2001. He held a number of senior positions within Frankie & Benny’s, becoming Operations Director in 2003 and Managing Director in 2009. During his time leading Frankies the brand has grown from 75 to over 200 units. In 2011 he led the successful launch of the new Coast to Coast brand and was appointed Managing Director of the Group’s Leisure Division in 2012 and Chief Executive on 1 September 2014. His earlier career included 10 years with Bella Pasta, then part of Whitbread PLC.
Stephen Critoph
Chief Financial Officer
Stephen was appointed as Finance Director of The Restaurant Group plc in September 2004. In September 2014 he was promoted to the role of Chief Financial Officer. Previously Stephen held several senior finance positions in Compass Group plc and Granada Group plc, including Corporate Development Director of Compass Roadside and Finance Director of Travelodge and Little Chef. He trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and Touche.
Tony Hughes
Non-executive Director
Tony was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Company in January 2008. Tony as Managing Director of the Restaurants Division of Mitchells and Butlers plc (previously Bass plc and Six Continents plc) from 1995 to 2007 and served on the Board of Mitchells & Butlers plc from 2003 until the end of 2007. Prior to joining Bass, he held senior management roles at B&Q, J.A. Devenish and Whitbread PLC.
Simon Cloke
Non-Executive Director
Simon was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Company in March 2010. Formerly Global Head of Industrials at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, he was appointed Managing Director of HSBC’s Diversified Industries Group in 2005 and is currently responsible for managing HSBC’s business with some of its largest house building and building materials clients as well as a number of HSBC\'s largest UK corporate relationships.
Sally Cowdry
Non-executive Director
Sally was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Company in March 2014. Sally is Marketing and Consumer Director at Camelot Lotteries UK Ltd, accountable for the strategic development and commercial performance of The National Lottery and its portfolio of games. Prior to joining Camelot in 2013, Sally was Marketing and Consumer Director at O2.
Debbie Hewitt
Non-Executive Director
Debbie was appointed as a non-executive Director on 1 May 2015. She is currently non-executive Chair of Moss Bros Group Plc, White Stuff Ltd, Evander Group and Visa UK and senior non-executive Director of Redrow Plc, NCC Group Plc, BGL and Domestic and General. Her executive career was spent at RAC Plc where she was Group Managing Director and prior to that she was in retail management with Marks and Spencer. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and was awarded the MBE for services to Business and the Public Sector in 2011.