Full list of 23 restaurants closing this month…

Full list of 23 restaurants closing this month including Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito

Both Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito will be closing a number of restaurants over the next few weeks as the chain looks to try and cut costs.

The Restaurant Group (TRG), which owns both the American Italian and Tex Mex chains, expects it will save around £5million by closing its "loss-making restaurants" when it announced the closure of 35 sites earlier this year.

The group announced on Tuesday that it had brought forward its plans to shut these sites after it negotiated to exit a number of contracts ahead of schedule.

By the end of this month, 18 Frankie and Benny's will shut and four Chiquito restaurants will close.

Separately, the group will also be closing one of its Firejacks steak house chains too.

Official dates for each individual closure has not been confirmed by the group.

A Restaurant Group spokesperson told The Sun: "We announced a review of our leisure estate in March and made the difficult decision to exit some of our Frankie and Benny's and Chiquito sites.

"We are working closely with our impacted teams and will look to redeploy colleagues to neighbouring sites across our wider estate wherever possible."

The Restaurant Group currently runs 410 venues across the UK which includes the brands Frankie and Benny's, Chiquito, Wagamamas, Brunning & Price and Coast to Coast.

Even with the closures, the Group said it had made "good progress" on its recent cost-cutting efforts with the sales from Wagas growing by 9% over the four weeks to April 30.

In fact, things are going so well with the Japanese restaurant it plans to open eight new sites in the UK next year.

This is up from the five new sites it had originally planned.

The group said "favourable" property market conditions were creating further opportunities for new Wagamama restaurants.