Browns Restaurants

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

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
- Beaconsfield
- Butlers Wharf
- Covent Garden
- Old Jewry
- Ruislip
- Victoria
- West India Quay
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

^ "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.

External links

Official website

[1] "This Is Oxfordshire - 14 Dec 1999". archive.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk.^{[dead link]}

[2] 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.

[3] "Applying Capacity-management Science". Cqx.sagepub.com. 1 June 1999. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

[boyd-4] Boyd, William (2006). Restless: A Novel. New York: Audio Renaissance. p. 101. ISBN 978-1408807125.

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