Frankie & Benny’s Closes on Rigby Road
Frankie & Benny's became a familiar part of Blackpool's Festival Leisure Park on Rigby Road during the 2000s, occupying a purpose-built restaurant close to the Odeon cinema. The American-Italian themed chain had first appeared in Britain in 1995 and grew particularly rapidly at multiplex cinemas and leisure parks, where restaurants could benefit from families combining a meal with a trip to the cinema. The precise opening date of the Blackpool restaurant has proved difficult to establish, but contemporary evidence confirms that it was trading by September 2006. Blackpool Council's licensing records subsequently document the restaurant at Festival Leisure Park from...