OK Diner
Company typePrivately-owned
GenreChain of roadside restaurants
Founded1990s
FounderCity Centre Restaurants
HeadquartersMiddlewich, Cheshire, England
Websitewww.okdiners.com
OK Diner, Flintshire (February 2010)

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.[1][2]

The concept was created by John Roebuck and Tony Horsfall for City Centre Restaurants (now The Restaurant Group) and was sold to co-directors Ian Hendry and Dafydd Poole in a management buyout in 2001.[3] In 2014, Poole bought out his partner.[4][5][6][7]

Current locations

As of March 2023 the Ok Diner chain has nine restaurants.[8]

References

  1. ^ "OK Diner". Evening Gazette. Gazette Media Company Limited. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  2. ^ Bicknell, Gareth (28 May 2005). "It's OK by name... and OK by nature". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). MGN Ltd. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Outsourcing is no longer a dirty word". raconteur.net. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  4. ^ "OK diner attacks roadside market". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 26 July 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  5. ^ "Group Restaurateur of the Year". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 21 October 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  6. ^ "Restaurant Group (The)". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  7. ^ "Cafe group steps up sale programme". BBC News. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  8. ^ "Where we are". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

See also

External links

Food chains in the United Kingdom
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