TGI Friday’s
Coverage of brand strategy, leadership changes, site performance, and menu direction from a long-standing player in the UK casual dining market. This section provides insight into how a legacy restaurant group evolves to meet shifting consumer expectations, tackle operational challenges, and compete across high streets and leisure destinations. Ideal for operators, franchisees, and food and beverage professionals tracking the branded dining space and its response to cost pressures, innovation, and guest experience trends.
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Jan- 2020 -4 JanuaryRestaurants
Bulgaria’s Happy Bar and Grill to open first UK site
Bulgarian fast food chain, Happy Bar and Grill is set to open its first UK restaurant on the site of the Leicester Square branch of TGI Fridays in London. Happy Bar and Grill has 22 sites across Bulgaria and two in Barcelona, with its all-day manu expected to arrive in…
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Oct- 2018 -4 OctoberApps & Technology
Workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoons, UberEats, TGI Fridays and Deliveroo hold demonstration
Workers from McDonald’s, Wetherspoons, UberEats, TGI Fridays and Deliveroo are holding a demonstration in Leicester Square from 11am, with some workers on strike. GMB Union regional officer, Steve Garelick, said: “The continued attacks made on workers from rate reduction without consultation to gratuities being hived off show that there is…
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Sep- 2018 -20 SeptemberPeople
McDonalds, TGI and Wetherspoons staff to go on ‘historic strike’ for better pay
Hospitality staff from McDonalds, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons will be coming together to collectively strike for better pay and union recognition. In what has been described as a “historic move” by the organisers, hospitality workers in the McStrike, TGI Fridays Strike and SpoonStrike [JD Wetherspoon] will stage coordinated walkouts to…
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May- 2018 -18 MayBusiness
TGI staff strike today over dispute that could cost staff £250 per month
Waiting staff at TGI Fridays in Milton Keynes are to strike today over a new plan to share tips with kitchen staff. Workers union Unite has said staff could lose up to £250 per month when the new rules are introduced. Dave Turnbull, regional manager at Unite said: “TGI’s outrageous…
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10 MayGovernment
Named and shamed: Underpaid hospitality staff among 200,000 to receive £15.6m back pay
HMRC has identified £15.6m in pay owed to more than 200,000 of the UK’s lowest paid workers, following an investigation from 2017 to 2018. This was an increase from the £10.9m that was owed to 98,000 workers in the previous year. Earlier this year, Wagamama, TGI Fridays, Starbucks and Subway…
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Apr- 2018 -12 AprilPeople
TGI Fridays hit with first ever strike over tips and minimum wage
TGI Fridays staff members are to be balloted by trade union Unite for strike action over tips and minimum wage. In the first of a series of strikes over the coming months, waiting staff from the chain’s Milton Keynes and Covent Garden restaurants will be balloted from 18 April to…
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