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Gondola Group
Company type	Private
Industry	Restaurant
Owner	Cinven
Website	gondolaholdings.com

Gondola Group was a chain restaurant operator in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It operated several casual dining brands:^[1]

Byron Hamburgers, sold to Hutton Collins for £100 million in October 2013.^[2]
Kettners, champagne bar and restaurant (one site in London), sold in 2013/2014.
PizzaExpress, sold to the China based private equity firm Hony Capital in July 2014 for £900 million ($1.54 billion).^[3]
ASK Italian and Zizzi, Italian food. Sold to Bridgepoint Capital in February 2015 for £250 million.^[4]^[5]

^ "Annual Report 2014" (PDF). Gondola Group Limited. 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ "Sale of Byron to Hutton Collins Partners" (PDF). Gondola Group Limited. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ "UK restaurant chain Pizza Express purchased by Chinese equity group". Big News Network.com. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ "Sale of ASK and Zizzi by Gondola to Bridgepoint" (PDF). Gondola Group Limited. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ Bridgepoint press release 9 February 2015: Bridgepoint completes £250 million acquisition of ASK Italian and Zizzi^{[permanent dead link]} Re-linked 2016-08-04