Giraffe Restaurants 简介

Overview

Giraffe Restaurants is a United Kingdom restaurant and cafe chain, founded in Hampstead in 1998

by Juliette Joffe, Russel Joffe and AndrewJacobs.

Giraffe was owned by its founders, with 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.

On 13 March 2013, it was announced that the chain was to be acquired by Tesco for £48.6m. As part

of the acquisition, 3i and Risk Capital Partners sold their shares in the company.

Branches

The company has 46 outlets across the UK, including fifteen in London. The company's first outlet

in Scotland is in Aberdeen's shopping development, Union Square. A second opened at Siverburn

shopping centre in Glasgow on 30th June 2014.In Autumn 2014, branches opened at Tesco stores

in Bournemouth, Inverness and Poole.