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Antony Worrall Thompson closes four restaurants
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has closed four of his restaurants, after failing to secure bank loans.
The closures at the Notting Hill, West London; the Lamb Inn and the Greyhound in Oxfordshire; and the Barnes Grill in southwest London – which will result in 60 job cuts – came after Lloyds turned down the chef’s request for a £200,000 overdraft.
As a result, AWT Restaurants, the chef’s holding company for the businesses went in administration on Friday (6 February).
Worrall Thompson will keep two of the restaurants – the Kew Grill in southwest London and the Windsor Grill in Berkshire – open using his own money.
Worrall Thompson said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday that he was “furious” that the banks “didn’t support” him.
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