Two restaurants near Showcase Cinema at Lenton are set to close by the end of May. Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, off Redfield Way, are both earmarked for closure.
The Restaurant Group which owns the chain warned in March it would close 35 Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito restaurants in a bid to boost profits. But it has sped up the plans and now 23 sites are due to shut by the end of this month.
A total of 18 Frankie & Benny's and four Chiquitos will close, along with a branch of Firejacks. The Restaurant Group expects to save £5million a year by closing its loss-making restaurants.
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There's now only one remaining American Italian Frankie & Benny's left in Nottinghamshire, at Giltbrook Retail Park. Sites in Nottingham city centre and Mansfield have both closed within the last three years.
Mexican restaurant Chiquito used to have a branch in the Cornerhouse in Nottingham but it never reopened after lockdown in 2020.
A spokesperson told The Sun: "We announced a review of our leisure estate in March and made the difficult decision to exit some of our Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito sites. We are working closely with our impacted teams and will look to redeploy colleagues to neighbouring sites across our wider estate wherever possible."
It comes after Chiquito in Nottingham city centre's Cornerhouse closed in 2020. The Chiquito restaurant at Mansfield Leisure Park has also permanently shut.
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