[7] Sometime in-between 1998 and 2005, TRG began converting former Deep Pan Pizza restaurants into Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and a selection of other brands under the same management.

[13] In March 2023, the chain announced it would sell 35 more restaurants due to the current cost of living crisis.

[15] The Restaurant Group announced in September 2023 that they would sell the company, alongside the rest of TRG's loss-making assets, to The Big Table, who own Café Rouge and Bella Italia, for £7.5 million.

[17] In September 2024, the company's owners decided that the chain needed to return to its 1995 roots in order to reinvent the brand and build growth.

[23] The fictional backstory of the chain starts in 1924 when at the age of 10, Frankie Giuliani left Sicily with his parents and moved to Little Italy in New York City.

[24] Within a year of moving, the family had opened a restaurant, everybody helping with the building and the cooking in equal measure.

Frankie went to the nearby high school and became lifelong friends with Benny, already a third-generation American.