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Paramount Restaurants

British chain restaurant operator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Paramount Restaurants was a chain restaurant operator in the United Kingdom. It was formerly known as Groupe Chez Gérard. It operated in 52 locations using several brands:Bertorelli

Brasserie Gérard

Caffè Uno

Chez Gérard

Il Bertorelli

Livebait

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“Paramount Restaurants” enters the record as british chain restaurant operator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paramount, Restaurants and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paramount Restaurants” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.