Prezzo (restaurant)
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| Private | |
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Founded | November 2000 |
| Headquarters | Woodford Green, Essex |
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Key people
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Jackson Makini, Chairman Jonathan Kaye, Chief Executive |
| Revenue |
 £59.6m GBP (FY 2011) |
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£7.3m GBP (FY 2011) |
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| Owner | Prezzo PLC |
| Website | www |
Prezzo ("price" in Italian) is a chain of Italian restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first restaurant opened on New Oxford Street, London in November 2000. There are now more than 200 branches across the country. It is part of the Prezzo restaurant group, which also operates the Chimichanga, Cafe Uno, and Ultimate Burger chains.
It is one of several large Italian restaurant chains in the UK, with competitors including Ask, Pizza Express and Strada.
The first Prezzo restaurant was opened in central London by Jonathan Kaye, the company's chief executive, in 2000. There are now more than 280 branches in the UK which includes 23 restaurants opened under both the Prezzo and Chimichanga brands in 2015. Prezzo opened its first restaurant in Ireland in February 2016. Prezzo commonly converts old buildings of architectural value from their old purposes into Prezzo restaurants; examples include an old cinema in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
The first owner of the Prezzo business, Jonathan Kaye, is the son of Reginald Kaye and nephew of Philip Kaye, both of whom have a background in the restaurant trade with the Golden Egg café chain in the 1960s and Italian restaurants Garfunkel's and Deep Pan Pizza, both now sold to Restaurant Group. In 2008 Jonathan hired cousins Adam Kaye and Samuel Kaye (sons of Philip Kaye) to join Prezzo plc's board of directors. Adam and Samuel founded Ask (restaurant) and Zizzi.
Prezzo donates a share of the profits raised from sales of selected dishes to the children's charity Fight for Life.
In 2011 the award-winning celebrity chef Aldo Zilli designed four pizzas which were added to the Prezzo menu under the name "V.I.Pizzas".
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