We are very proud to announce that Frankie & Benny’s in Witney and Gloucester have been voted as one of the top family friendly places to eat by www.netmums.com members of North Gloucestershire! We feel that this vote is extra special as it’s a ‘mums choice’ award and acknowledges what a great place it is for families to visit. Thank you to everyone who voted and we hope you and your families will continue to enjoy dining with us in the future.

Our ten restaurants across the North East of England pulled together to raise enough money to provide the children who currently visit Zoe’s Place baby hospice in Middlesbrough a real F&B Christmas treat.

Frankie & Benny’s is delighted to be official restaurant partner of Real Radio’s Bring A Pound To Work Day in Scotland.

Taking place on Thursday 8th March, Bring A Pound To Work Day will raise funds for Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) – a charity providing the only hospice services in Scotland for children and young people with life-shortening conditions.

We would like to thank everyone who helped our Frankie & Benny’s restaurant in Yeovil raise £200 for Help for Heroes over the weekend.

The team set up a fantastic Santa’s Grotto in the patio area complete with a beautiful real-life reindeer which our guests really enjoyed!

Here are a few pictures from the stall we opened at the annual Christmas Market in Skegness last Saturday and Sunday.

Our Christmas Classics CD was available to purchase plus some Christmas hampers, each containing a bottle of Frankie's wine, drip and drizzle set, Christmas Classics CD and promotional vouchers.

Our brand new Christmas CD is now available to buy.

Tracks include Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, Sleigh Ride, Frosty The Snowman, Christmas Kisses, Jingle Bell Rock, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Winter Wonderland, and What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Thank you for helping us to raise over £125,000 for BBC Children in Need

We wanted to thank you sincerely for helping us to raise an incredible £125,000 for BBC Children in Need this year, in fact, that’s not yet our final total, we’re still counting!

We saw some fantastic fundraising activities take place from restaurant to restaurant with raffles, auctions, car washes, sponsored activities and more, not to mention the sale of our delicious Pudsey Pizza’s that went down a storm!

Frankie and Bennys Merthyr Tydfil in conjunction with BLESMA & The ABF The Soldiers Charity joined forces and held a fantastic charity event on November 24th.  We pride ourselves on being a community based family restaurant and were delighted to support both charities’ and raised £1785.79 throughout the day.

In July, we opened the doors to our 200th Frankie & Benny’s restaurant at The Fort Shopping Park in Birmingham.

Since then we have opened another 8 restaurants in Bishopbriggs (Glasgow), Bangor (Northern Ireland), Bridgend, Widnes, Northampton, Sprucefield (Northern Ireland), Leigh and Kilmarnock.

Before 2011 draws to a close, we have 2 more restaurants to open this month in Crewe and Leeds and we’re looking forward to many more new openings in 2012!

Frankie & Benny’s in Dorking held a free of charge charity breakfast and brunch event for SeeAbility yesterday raising over £1000! We offered free breakfasts to guests all day in return for a donation to the charity. Overall the event was attended by over 150 people including the Mayor, with all proceeds from the day going directly to SeeAbility. The money raised on the day will go towards buying materials for a Sensory Garden being built at SeeAbility Leatherhead.