FRANKIE & BENNY’S RESTAURANT PREPARING FOR PRE-CHRISTMAS OPENING AT TRENTHAM

Frankie & Benny¹s  is to open a 130-seater restaurant at the main entrance to the Trentham Estate, North Staffordshire, the highly successful 750-acre visitor destination being developed by Trentham Leisure, a joint venture between St Modwen Properties plc, the UK¹s leading regeneration specialist, and Mr Willi Reitz, the German wine and leisure entrepreneur.

The company, which runs 1950s-style Italian/American restaurants,  has taken a lease on the innovative timber building with a double curved roof designed to create a stunning entrance feature to the estate.

The restaurant, currently being fitted-out and  which will open before Christmas, has been developed in conjunction with an 119-bed hotel complex which is due to become operational next Spring.

The four-storey  hotel which was to have been a Tulip Inn has recently been acquired by Whitbread as part of the takeover of the Golden Tulip business and will now operate as a Premier Inn Hotel.

Mike Herbert, development director of Trentham Leisure,  said: ³We are very pleased that Frankie and Benny¹s have chosen Trentham to be the location for one of its new restaurants. They offer a wide range of quality food which will be very attractive to our visitors to Trentham.

³They focus on catering for families and  combining popular American style food with traditional Italian dishes in an attractive setting.²

For further information contact Mike Herbert of St Modwen (01782 281844).

Issued by Paul Raymer of Howle Chapman Raymer (0121 313 1000).