The owners of restaurant chain Frankie and Benny's have announced that 35 UK stores are going to shut.

The Restaurant Group (TRG), which also owns Wagamama and Chiquito, said this is in an effort to boost earnings by closing loss-making locations.

There are two Frankie and Benny's in Norfolk - one in Norwich and the other in Great Yarmouth.

No details of the branches which are being affected have been released.

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Andy Hornby, TRG’s chief executive said the closures will be decided when unit leases come up for renewal and that teams will be the first to know.

TRG cut a raft of loss-making restaurants by closing the majority of its Chiquito restaurants at the start of the pandemic to bolster its finances.

Meanwhile, Wagamama sales increased by nearly a 10th last year and TRG said it wanted to open five to six new Wagamama restaurants a year for the next three years.

A new Wagamama opened in February of this year at Riverside in Norwich, just down the road from a Frankie and Benny's.