Loch Fyne Restaurants
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Seafood
Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs , crustaceans , echinoderms . Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia...
restaurants in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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owned and operated by Greene King plc.
History
The company takes its name from Loch FyneLoch Fyne
Loch Fyne is a sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs...
, a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The business started life as part of Loch Fyne Oysters
Loch Fyne Oysters
Loch Fyne Oysters is a company which has expanded from farming and selling oysters to providing a range of seafoods, fish, meat and game. It founded the Loch Fyne restaurant chain which is now owned by Greene King; it still owns the Loch Fyne brand and supplies its products to the restaurant chain...
but, in August 2007, the restaurant chain was bought by Greene King
Greene King Brewery
Greene King is a British brewery established in 1799 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It has grown to become one of the largest British owned breweries in the UK through a series of takeovers which have been the subject of some criticism. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent...
for £68 million.
Loch Fyne Oysters continues in business under separate ownership; it owns the Loch Fyne brand and supplies much of the seafood used by the restaurant chain.
In 2008 Loch Fyne Restaurants was criticized by news media outlet the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
for allegedly paying their waiting staff a base salary below the minimum wage.