OK Diner
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| Company type | 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 |
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]
Menu
The menu served consists of popular diner favourites such as burgers, hot dogs, grills, cooked breakfasts, thick shakes and desserts. Since 2012, burritos have been added to the menu. In traditional diner style, tea, filter coffee and soft drinks are all refilled free of charge. Root beer and floats are also available. There is also a children’s menu for children under 10 years of age, off which kids eat free when an adult gets a full meal.[9] Full English Breakfasts are served as well.[10]
Current Locations
The OK Diner chain has eight restaurants as of September 2011.[7]
- A5 — Bridgtown, Staffordshire
- A49 — Leominster, Herefordshire
- A55 — Northop Hall, Flintshire
- A1 — Tickencote, Rutland
- A1 — Colsterworth, Lincolnshire
- A1 — Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
- A19 — Elwick, County Durham
- A38 — Egginton, Derbyshire
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 McDonalds 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
- ^ "OK Diner". Evening Gazette. Gazette Media Company Limited. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ Bicknell, Gareth (28 May 2005). "It's OK by name... and OK by nature". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). MGN Ltd. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ "OK diner attacks roadside market". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 26 July 2001. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ "Group Restaurateur of the Year". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 21 October 2003. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ "Restaurant Group (The)". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ "Cafe group steps up sale programme". BBC News. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ^ a b "Where we are". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/regional/herefordshire/11498487.Ham_burglar_strikes_Leominster__39_s_OK_Diner/
- ^ "Menu". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- ^ http://www.ifancyafryup.co.uk/cafes/england/herefordshire/leominster/ok-diner.html
External links
- "OK Diner website". Retrieved 2009-09-02.