Giraffe Restaurants

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Giraffe
Type	Casual Restaurant Group
Genre	Restaurant and Cafe chain
Founded	1998
Founder(s)	Juliette Joffe, Russel Joffe, Andrew Jacobs
Headquarters	England
Website	Giraffe.net

Giraffe Restaurants is a United Kingdom restaurant and cafe chain, founded in Hampstead in 1998 by Juliette Joffe, Russel Joffe and Andrew Jacobs.

Giraffe is owned by its founders, and has additional financial backing from private shareholders, 3i investment group and chairman Luke Johnson. 3i invested £10 million in the company in 2006, in a deal that valued the chain at £24 million.^[1]

On 13 March 2013, it was announced that the chain is to be acquired by Tesco for £48.6m.^[2]

Branches

Giraffe at Trinity Leeds.

The company has 46 outlets across the UK, including fifteen in London. The company's only outlet in Scotland is in Aberdeen's shopping development, Union Square.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Junior awards: best restaurant commendation (spring 2011)
Best family restaurant: Hardens (2011)
Best in Social Media: caterer web awards (2010)^[3]
Best corporate twitter: goldentwits.com (2011)
Deal of the year (for tootises acquisition) (2010)
R150: best family restaurant (2009)
Peach network: best breakthrough brand (2007)
Eat out magazine: top 50 foodservice operators (2007)
Retailers Retailer awards: best emerging concept (2006)
Observer: best family restaurant (2005)
Hardens: best brunch (2004 & 2005)
Retailers retailer: best newcomer (2003)

References

↑ Walsh, Dominic (6 October 2006). "3i to put £10m into restaurants". London: The Times. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
↑ "Tesco acquires award-winning restaurant group Giraffe". Tesco PLC. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
↑ http://www.caterersearch.com/blogs/hospitality-web-awards/2010winners.html

External links

Official website

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Key people	Jack Cohen Lord MacLaurin Terry Leahy Philip Clarke

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