Angus Steakhouse
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| Industry | Restaurants |
|---|---|
| Founded | London, England (1968) |
| Headquarters | London , England, UK |
Number of locations | 5 |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Products | Steak |
| Website | angussteakhouse |
Angus Steakhouse is a
History
Aberdeen Steak Houses was started in the early 1960s by Reginald Eastwood (born c.1913
By the 1970s, the group was focused more on tourist trade, with many branches in the West End to attract those attending theatre or musical shows. Angus Steakhouses was a subsidiary of Aberdeen Steak Houses with the same business model.[5] In the mid-1970s, the firm had an industrial dispute with the TGWU.[6] In 1980 EMI sold 13 restaurants to Thistle Hotels.[7]
In 1984, the group was sold to Ali Salih, a Turkish businessman with a low public profile.[8] The menu and décor showed little update since the 1960s, and the brand got a reputation as tourist traps for foreigners.[5][9][10] Business remained strong through the 1980s and at its peak it had an annual turnover of £20m with 700,000 steaks sold.[11] Its 1989 profit was £330,000.[9]
Its business, along with the wider UK beef industry, was hit in the 1990s by
Administrators
Reputation
In 2011, actor and comedian David Mitchell championed the cause of Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses in his opinion column in The Guardian, proposing that they be a nominee for a British World Heritage bid, citing them as being "unique to British culture" because of their "proud heritage of serving shoe leather with Béarnaise sauce to neon-addled out-of-towners."[12]
Location
Angus Steakhouse now lists five restaurants in London: two in the West End, at 21 Coventry Street the flagship in Piccadilly Circus, Cranbourn Street in Leicester Square; two just off Oxford Street, 243 Argyll Street in Oxford Circus, and at 10 Woodstock Street by Bond Street; and one located opposite Paddington Station, at 163 Praed Street.[13]
References
- ^ a b Time & tide business world, vol.45, p.xcv
- ^ Jonathan Margolis We'll meat again The Evening Standard, 16 January 2002
- ^ "Buy 'em out". The Economist. 127: 1248. 11 December 1965.
- ^ Economist Intelligence Unit (February 1973). "Catering". Retail Business (180): 19.
- ^ a b c d Lauren Mills, Aberdeen Steak Houses faces chop The Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2002
- ^ Macfarlane, A (1982). "Trade unionism and the employer in hotels and restaurants". International Journal of Hospitality Management. 1 (1): 33–45.
- ^ "Hannah takes Thistle Hotels to the country". Caterer & Hotelkeeper. 177 (3405): 81. 30 January 1986.
- ^ a b Sathnam Sanghera Musings on a steakhouse that is not well done "Business Life", The Times 24 May 2008
- ^ a b c d e Husnara Begum, BLP to rescue steak house from collapse The Lawyer, 7 October 2002
- ^ Adam Edwards, Who goes there? Daily Telegraph, 19 May 2001
- ^ a b "Stuart Jeffries: Flogging a dead cow". the Guardian. 3 October 2002. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ David Mitchell, World heritage status? Mine's a Carling Black Label... The Guardian, 27 March 2011
- ^ "Home page". Official website. Angus Steakhouse. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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