OK Diner

OK Diner
Privately Owned Restaurant Chain
Genre Chain of roadside restaurants
Founded North-west and Midlands, England in 1990s
Founder City Centre Restaurants
Headquarters Middlewich, Cheshire, England
Website Official website
OK Diner, Flintshire

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 following a management buy-out in January 2001.But in 2014, Dafydd Poole bought out his partner and is now operating the diners.[3][4][5][6]

As of August 2011, the chain has eight operating restaurants.[7] Thieves stole the safe from the Leominster branch in September 2014.[8]

Current locations

The OK Diner chain has eight restaurants as of September 2011.[7]

Former locations

  • A370 — Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
  • A6, on the border between Levenshulme, Manchester and Heaton Chapel, Stockport - site is now occupied by a McDonald's and a KFC outlet.
  • Kilner Way Retail Park Sheffield, Site now car parking (Closed 2002)
  • Stockport, King Street West.
  • Preston, A583 Lea, West of Preston.
  • Liverpool, East Lancs Road.
  • Wigan, closed down when I went but seemed to be in a shopping precinct rather than the usual format.
  • Just West of the M1 on the Ashby De La Zouch road (A512?)

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. ↑ "OK diner attacks roadside market". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 26 July 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  4. ↑ "Group Restaurateur of the Year". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 21 October 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  5. ↑ "Restaurant Group (The)". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  6. ↑ "Cafe group steps up sale programme". BBC News. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  7. 1 2 "Where we are". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  8. ↑ http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/regional/herefordshire/11498487.Ham_burglar_strikes_Leominster__39_s_OK_Diner/
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