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Browns Brasserie & Bar is a British chain of restaurants owned by Mitchells & Butlers, with sites mostly located in the south of England.
Browns was the first hospitality venture established by Jeremy Mogford, who in 1973 invested £10,000 (of which £2,500 was borrowed from his father) in the first Browns Restaurant and Bar in Brighton, East Sussex. He established a chain of seven restaurants, mostly in university towns such as Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, with an annual turnover of £15 million. In 1996, Mogford sold the Browns chain to Bass Brewery for £35 million.[1]
Mogford was regarded as one of the industry's best and most enlightened employers, which was reflected in a low staff turnover rate. He and his restaurants were used as a case study in a hospitality and entrepreneurship textbook illustrating commitment to employees.[2] In addition, Browns was profiled in a widely used capacity management study by Deterministics Inc. for Cornell University's Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly journal.[3]
Locations
[edit]The chain now consists of twenty-six restaurants – in:[citation needed]
- Bath
- Birmingham
- Bluewater
- Brighton
- Bristol - located in a listed building that has previously been the City Museum and Library and also the university refectory and dining room[citation needed]
- Cambridge
- Cardiff
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Kingston
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- London
- Manchester - located in a Grade II* listed Edwardian former bank building constructed in 1902 for Parr's Bank by Charles Heathcote
- Milton Keynes
- Nottingham
- Oxford - located on Woodstock Road. This location is mentioned in the novel Restless by William Boyd.[4]
- Reading
- Sheffield
- Windsor
References
[edit]- ^ "This Is Oxfordshire - 14 Dec 1999". archive.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk.[dead link]
- ^ Williams, Claire; Morrison, Alison; Rimmington, Mike (1999). Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries (1. publ., [Nachdr.]. ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 16. ISBN 0-7506-4097-9.
- ^ "Applying Capacity-management Science". Cqx.sagepub.com. 1 June 1999. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ Boyd, William (2006). Restless: A Novel. New York: Audio Renaissance. p. 101. ISBN 978-1408807125.