Industry Restaurants Number of locations 69 | Headquarters London, United Kingdom Area served United Kingdom | |
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Type Private limited company Founded London, United Kingdom (2007) | ||
Byron Hamburgers Limited, trading as Byron, is a British restaurant chain offering a casual dining service with a focus on hamburgers. The chain was founded in 2007 by Tom Byng.
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The chain is owned by Hutton Collins Partners, who purchased it for £100 million in October 2013.
Locations
The burger chain is UK-based, with, as of October 2016, 69 locations, 40 of which are in London.
History
The burger chain was founded in London in 2007 by Tom Byng, who developed the idea for the company while living in New York City, where he would regularly eat at the Silver Top Diner in Providence, Rhode Island.
The chain was owned by Gondola Group, which also owns Ask and Zizzi. Gondola announced plans to sell Byron in October 2012. Potential buyers included Quilvest, owners of YO! Sushi, in June 2013 Gondola stated that it was abandoning plans to sell Byron, after offers failed to reach the company's estimated £100m price tag, and decided to accelerate expansion of Byron instead.
In October 2013, Hutton Collins Partners finally put in the £100 million offer and the chain was sold.
In July 2016 the company attracted adverse publicity after calling their London workers to a faked Health and Safety briefing following a request by the Home Office. Immigration officials present at the venue arrested several employees, deporting 35 for immigration offences. This led to protests outside several of their branches in London, including the release of live cockroaches and locusts at some premises and a call to boycott the chain.