The owner of restaurant chains Wagamama, Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito is to shut 23 venues across the UK by the end of this month and the fate of its Sussex branches has been revealed.

The Restaurant Group (TRG) announced the news yesterday.

The group said it was shutting a number of loss-making restaurants as part of cost-cutting measures.

Back in March, TRG announced a rationalisation plan to leave around 35 potentially loss-making locations over the next two years.

A spokesman for TRG said: “We announced a review of our leisure estate in March and made the difficult decision to exit some of our Frankie and Benny’s, Chiquito and Firejacks sites.

“We are working closely with our impacted teams and will look to redeploy colleagues to neighbouring sites across our wider estate wherever possible.”

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The Frankie and Benny’s in Knights Way, Tunbridge Wells, is among one of the 23 closures.

The full list of sites to close by the end of the month is below.

Frankie and Benny's:

  • Aberdeen          
  • Birmingham - Plaza        
  • Blackpool          
  • Carmarthen      
  • Chesterfield      
  • Eastleigh            
  • Exeter - Marsh Barton   
  • Feltham             
  • Leeds   
  • Lenton
  • Livingston
  • Norwich - Riverside        
  • Peterborough   
  • Peterborough - Pavilions West
  • Street - Clarks Village     
  • Tamworth
  • Taplow
  • Tunbridge Wells              

Chiquito:

  • Leeds   
  • Lenton
  • Peterborough - Pavilions West   
  • Rochester          

Firejacks:

  • Basildon