Angus Steakhouse

Aberdeen Steak Houses was started in the early 1960s by Reginald Eastwood (born c. 1913 Eastwood and partner Thomas Beale floated the company on 6 February 1964. In 1965, the Kaye brothers' Golden Egg cafeterias bought a 76% stake in the 14 Angus restaurants. In 1973 EMI Hotels won a bidding war against Ralston Purina to buy the Golden Egg group from the Kayes. 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. Angus Steakhouses was a subsidiary of Aberdeen Steak Houses with the same business model. In the mid-1970s, the firm had an industrial dispute with the TGWU. In 1980 EMI sold 13 restaurants to Thistle Hotels. In 1984, the group was sold to Ali Salih, a Turkish businessman with a low public profile. Business remained strong through the 1980s and at its peak it had an annual turnover of £20m with 700,000 steaks sold. Its 1989 profit was £330,000. Its business, along with the wider UK beef industry, was hit in the 1990s by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, ==Reputation==

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." ==Location==

Angus Steakhouse now lists five restaurants in London: two in the West End, at 21 Coventry Street the flagship in Piccadilly Circus, Cranbourn Street in Leicester Square; two just off Oxford Street, 243 Argyll Street in Oxford Circus, and at 10 Woodstock Street by Bond Street; and one located opposite Paddington Station, at 163 Praed Street. ==References==