36 Restaurant groups in the United Kingdom

The Aerated Bread Company Ltd (A.B.C.) was a company founded and headquartered in the United Kingdom. Although it is often remembered as running a large chain of tea rooms in Britain and other parts of the world, it was originally established in 1862 by Dr. John Dauglish as a bakery using a revolutionary new method he had developed, with the tea rooms starting in 1864.

ASK, also known as ASK Italian is a British casual dining restaurant chain that serves Italian cuisine in 120 locations in the UK.

Beefeater is a chain of over 140 pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by Whitbread.

Bella Italia is a chain of over 90 restaurants offering meals inspired by Italian cuisine in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The chain is part of the Casual Dining Group, who also own Café Rouge and Las Iguanas.

Belushi's is a British bar chain.

Brewers Fayre is a licensed pub restaurant chain, with 161 locations across the UK as of August 2018. Owned by Whitbread, Brewers Fayre restaurants are known for serving traditional British pub food and for their Sunday Carvery.

Browns Brasserie & Bar is a British chain of restaurants, mostly located in the south of England.

Carluccio's is an Italian restaurant chain founded in London in 1999.

Casual Dining Group (CDG), formerly Tragus Group, operated 250 restaurants in the United Kingdom. CDG operated restaurants primarily under the Bella Italia, Café Rouge and Las Iguanas names. It also operates sites under the Belgo, Huxleys, Oriel Grande Brasserie and La Salle brands. The company was backed by investors including KKR and Pemberton Capital Advisors.

Chef & Brewer is a chain of around 127 licensed traditional pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by the Greene King subsidiary, the Spirit Pub Company. The concept is providing more up market pub food and those in the chain have been re-furbished.

Chiquito is a restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom specialising in Tex-Mex foods. It also serves food via its virtual restaurants Cornstar Tacos and Kickass Burritos.

Coast to Coast is a restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom specialising in American foods. The company was established in 2011, when the first restaurant was opened at Brighton Marina. At the beginning of 2020 there were 13 restaurants open across the United Kingdom, but, as of July 2021, only the restaurant located in the Trafford Centre, Manchester, remains open, due to closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Coast to Coast is run by the Restaurant Group, who also own Chiquito and Frankie & Benny's. In March 2012, Coast to Coast won the New Concept Award at the Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS).

Fatty Arbuckle's American Diners was an American themed restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. The Manchester-based business was founded in 1983 by Pete Shotton, an associate of The Beatles. It focused on large portions at cheap prices. The name refers to Hollywood director and star of silent movies Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Giraffe World Kitchen

Giraffe is a restaurant and cafe chain based in Birmingham, England which was founded in Hampstead as Giraffe Restaurants in 1998 by Juliette Joffe, Russel Joffe and Andrew Jacobs. Giraffe was owned by its founders, with additional financial backing from private shareholders, 3i investment group and chairman Luke Johnson.

Gordon James Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer. He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Ramsay founded his global restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, in 1997. It has been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently holds a total of seven. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay had become one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the UK by 2004.

Handmade Burger Co was a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom serving beef, chicken and vegetable burgers.

Harvester Restaurants is a family "farmhouse style" restaurant chain with over 230 outlets in the United Kingdom.

Hungry Horse is a chain of 284 pub restaurants in England, Wales and Scotland which is owned by Greene King Brewery. It was first established in 1995 and promotes itself as offering low cost meals for families and groups. Work began on a new pub restaurant of the chain with the scheme of Phoenix Riverside at Templeborough in Rotherham in February 2015.

Leon is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom, established in 2004. The company had around 60 outlets when it was bought by EG Group in 2021.

Loch Fyne Oysters is a seafood and meat company that operates on the banks of Loch Fyne, Scotland. The company created the Loch Fyne Restaurants chain, which was later sold to Greene King. Loch Fyne Oysters still owns the Loch Fyne brand and supplies its products to the restaurant chain.

Loch Fyne Restaurants is a chain of 10 seafood restaurants in the United Kingdom owned and operated by Greene King plc.

The OK Diner is a privately owned roadside restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. The restaurants have a retro 1950s style American diner theme, with popular 1950s music, chequerboard flooring, booth seating, plenty of chrome details and 1950s memorabilia on the walls.

The Restaurant Group plc is a British chain of restaurants and public houses. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Strada is a chain based in the United Kingdom of branded restaurants specialising in Italian cuisine with two Strada sites and six Coppa Clubs, all in Southern England.

Table Table is a brand of restaurants set up by Whitbread in 2008, the brand actually started in 2006 but was unnamed. The brand was created following a rethink of the former Whitbread brand Out & Out. The majority of Table Tables are converted Brewers Fayres. This was during a time where Brewers Fayre was in decline.

Taybarns was a British low cost all-you-can-eat restaurant chain owned by Whitbread, modelled on the Golden Corral chain in the United States. Customers paid on arrival and could eat as much food as they liked from a thirty four metre long food counter. As with most buffets, there was a lower price at lunchtime than evenings, and a slightly higher charge was levied at weekends and during bank holidays.

Thai Square is a UK restaurant chain with 15 Thai-themed restaurants in London and south-east England.

Toby Carvery is a British carvery chain brand owned and operated by Mitchells & Butlers. The chain consists of 158 restaurants.

Tony Macaroni is a chain of restaurants in Scotland and Northern Ireland specialising in Italian cuisine. The slogan of the company is vive per mangiare. It is the sister company of Nardini's, an ice cream parlour in Largs, Scotland, and Marini's, a Scottish chain of fish and chip shops. The first restaurant in Scotland opened in 2001, in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire.

Upper Crust is an international chain of baguette restaurants concentrated along commuter routes. The outlets are commonplace in stations and terminals. Branches are also present in some universities in the United Kingdom, including University College London.

Wagamama is a British restaurant chain, serving Asian food based on Japanese cuisine.

Walkabout is an Australian themed pub and restaurant chain in the United Kingdom owned by Stonegate pubs since December 2016.

Wasabi is a fast food restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom, focused on Japanese, East Asian-inspired fast food, especially sushi and bento, and operating primarily in London, England and New York, US, with further branches elsewhere in England as of 2019. Wasabi was founded in London in 2003 by Dong Hyun Kim, a South Korean entrepreneur.

J D Wetherspoon plc is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and based in Watford, the company operates 925 pubs as of June 2021. This includes the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and around 50 Wetherspoon hotels. Wetherspoon is known for converting unconventional premises into pubs, such as former cinemas and banks. The company is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Wildwood Kitchen is a British casual dining chain, serving Italian food, with 12 restaurants in the UK.

Zizzi is a chain of Italian inspired restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In February 2015, Bridgepoint Capital completed a £250 million acquisition of ASK Italian and Zizzi.