OK_Diner Knowpia

OK Diner
Company type	Privately-owned
Genre	Chain of roadside restaurants
Founded	1990s
Founder	City Centre Restaurants
Headquarters	Middlewich, Cheshire, England
Website	www.okdiners.com

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 in a management buyout in 2001.^[3] In 2014, Poole bought out his partner.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Current locations edit

As of March 2023 the Ok Diner chain has nine restaurants.^[8]

A1 Northbound – Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
A1 Southbound – New Fox, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire
A1 Northbound – Tickencote, Rutland
A5 – Cannock, Staffordshire
A19 Services Southbound – Elwick, County Durham
A38 Southbound – Egginton, Derbyshire
A49 – Leominster, Herefordshire
A55 Gateway Services – Northop Hall, Flintshire
Mile End Roundabout, Oswestry, Shropshire

References edit

^ "OK Diner". Evening Gazette. Gazette Media Company Limited. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ Bicknell, Gareth (28 May 2005). "It's OK by name... and OK by nature". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). MGN Ltd. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ "Outsourcing is no longer a dirty word". raconteur.net. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
^ "OK diner attacks roadside market". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 26 July 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ "Group Restaurateur of the Year". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 21 October 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ "Restaurant Group (The)". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ "Cafe group steps up sale programme". BBC News. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
^ "Where we are". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

External links edit

Official website
Media related to OK Diner at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "OK Diner". Evening Gazette. Gazette Media Company Limited. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[2] Bicknell, Gareth (28 May 2005). "It's OK by name... and OK by nature". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). MGN Ltd. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[3] "Outsourcing is no longer a dirty word". raconteur.net. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

[4] "OK diner attacks roadside market". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 26 July 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[5] "Group Restaurateur of the Year". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 21 October 2003. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[6] "Restaurant Group (The)". Caterersearch. Reed Business Information. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[7] "Cafe group steps up sale programme". BBC News. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

[locations-8] "Where we are". OK Diner. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

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