TGI Friday’s has shut 16 UK restaurants: full list of closed locations

TGI Friday’s was once an all-American success story. What began as an independent bar in 1960s New York ballooned into a multinational corporation operating hundreds of locations in dozens of countries.

For a time TGIs was a titan of family dining and birthday patries in Britain, but those days seem to be firmly in the past. This week the company went into administration for the second time in two years, and been forced to close a good chunk of its UK locations.

The diner brand went bankrupt in the US in November 2024, with its UK contingent following suit a few weeks later. Back then, 51 locations this side of the Atlantic were saved in a buyout from Liberty Bar and Restaurant Group, but efforts to return the business to profitability seemingly didn’t work out.

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Once again a sale has saved TGIs from disappearing from the UK. This time the chain was sold to Sugarloaf TGIF management, with a ‘pre-pack’ deal between the administrators, called Interpath, and Sugarloaf. 

As a result of the sale, Sugarloaf announced on Tuesday (January 13) that it would shutter 16 underperforming TGI Friday’s branches across the country. Interpath called the move ‘a pivotal step in TGI Friday’s’ wider turnaround plan’. A total of 456 people have been made redundant, but it is hoped that this move will help safeguard more than 1,000 jobs in future.

Now, the brand has only 33 diners left across the UK; a far cry from the nearly 90 it operated pre-pandemic. But new owners have high hopes – the global manager of the TGIF brand, Phil Broad, said that the sale was ‘the best outcome for the business’, as it could prevent more job losses and create a ‘a strong platform for success and growth’.

Here’s what you need to know about the TGI Friday’s restaurants that have closed, and the ones that are staying open.

Full list of TGI Friday’s locations that have closed

Here are all 16 of the TGI Friday’s restaurants that shut this week with immediate effect:

• Ashton Under Lyne, Greater Manchester
• Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• Staines, Surrey
• Stevenage, Hertfordshire
• Walsall, West Midlands
• Bournemouth, Dorset
• Telford, Shropshire
• Reading, Berkshire
• Coventry, Warwickshire
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Crawley, West Sussex
• Aberdeen Beach, Scotland
• Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• Sheffield, South Yorkshire
• Stratford, Greater London
• Braintree, Essex

Which TGI Friday’s restaurants are staying open? 

• Aberdeen Union Square
• Basildon
• Birmingham NEC
• Bluewater
• Bolton
• Braehead
• Cardiff St David’s
• Castleford
• Cheadle
• Cheshire Oaks
• Cribbs Causeway (Bristol)
• Fareham
• Glasgow Buchanan Street
• Glasgow Fort
• High Wycombe
• Lakeside Quay Centre
• Lakeside Retail Park
• Leeds Junction 27
• Leeds White Rose
• Liverpool One
• London The O2
• Manchester Trafford Centre
• Meadowhall (Sheffield)
• Metrocentre Gateshead
• Milton Keynes
• Milton Keynes Stadium
• Norwich
• Rushden Lakes
• Silverburn
• Southampton Retail Park
• Teesside
• Watford Central
• Wembley

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