Browns Restaurants
Browns Restaurant in Covent Garden, central London | |
| Parent | Mitchells & Butlers |
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Browns Brasserie & Bar is a British chain of restaurants owned by Mitchells & Butlers, with sites mostly located in the south of England.
Browns was the first hospitality venture established by Jeremy Mogford, who in 1973 invested £10,000[1] (of which £2,500 was borrowed from his father) in the first Browns Restaurant and Bar in Brighton, East Sussex. He established a chain of seven restaurants, mostly in university towns such as Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, with an annual turnover of £15 million. In 1996, Mogford sold the Browns chain to Bass Brewery for £35 million.[2]
Mogford was regarded as one of the industry's best and most enlightened employers, which was reflected in a low staff turnover rate. He and his restaurants were used as a case study in a hospitality and entrepreneurship textbook illustrating commitment to employees.[3] In addition, Browns was profiled in a widely used capacity management study by Deterministics Inc. for Cornell University's Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly journal.[4]
References
- ^ "UNSUNG HEROES: Jeremy Mogford, owner, Mogford Limited". Boutique Hotelier. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ^ "Jeremy Mogford". The Oxford Magazine. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ^ Williams, Claire; Morrison, Alison; Rimmington, Mike (1999). Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Industries (1. publ., [Nachdr.]. ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 16. ISBN 0-7506-4097-9.
- ^ "Applying Capacity-management Science". Cqx.sagepub.com. 1 June 1999. Retrieved 1 February 2015.