The administrator of the troubled leisure group Regent Inns has secured a deal to keep all but nine of the sites in the group.
So thankfully the laughs are still to be heard in Jongleurs, although there may be many a worried Skippy as Kangaroo burgers are back on the menu at Walkabouts!
The management team formed a new company, Intertain in the rescue bid that safeguards more than 1800 jobs, with the vision of being the leading operator of entertainment focussed bars in the UK as well as operation a differentiated family orientated restaurant business.
The administrators are set to close three Walkabouts sites in Bradford, Lancaster and Shaftsbury Avenue as well as five Jongleurs clubs in Bow, Bristol, Nottingham, Oxford and Southampton, so smiles and laughs have been lost, but not as many as may have been feared.
