[citation needed] Eastwood's vision was for a more modern version of the earlier chop-house grills, and was influenced by American steak houses.

[3] In 1973 EMI Hotels won a bidding war against Ralston Purina to buy the Golden Egg group from the Kayes.

[4] By the 1970s, the group was focused more on tourist trade, with many branches in the West End to attract those attending theatre or musical shows.

[9] Its business, along with the wider UK beef industry, was hit in the 1990s by bovine spongiform encephalopathy,[9] then by foot and mouth disease in 2001.

[11] Administrators BDO and lawyers Berwin Leighton Paisner kept the firm trading as a going concern, though several of the sites were sold off to pay debts.

[8] In 2011, actor and comedian David Mitchell championed the cause of Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses in his opinion column in The Guardian, proposing that they be a nominee for a British World Heritage bid, citing them as being "unique to British culture" because of their "proud heritage of serving shoe leather with Béarnaise sauce to neon-addled out-of-towners.