Benugo (benúːgoʊ) is a British
catering company
A food service distributor is a company that provides food and non-food products to restaurants, cafeterias, industrial caterers, hospitals, schools/colleges/universities, nursing homes, and anywhere food is served away from the home.
Description
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. It operates high street cafes, restaurants, dining spaces inside public buildings as well as in-house corporate cafes. As of March 2014, Benugo had more than 70 individual locations; most of these are in London, with some locations outside including Bath, Oxford, Coventry, Edinburgh and Stirling.
History
Benugo was founded in 1998 by brothers Ben Warner and Hugo Warner in
Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell () is an area of central London, England.
Clerkenwell was an ancient parish from the mediaeval period onwards, and now forms the south-western part of the London Borough of Islington.
The well after which it was named was redisco ...
, London.
Benugo signed its first public space contract at the
Victoria & Albert Museum in 2004, and opened a restaurant, Benugo bar and kitchen, in the British Film Institute building in 2007. Further cultural sites with Benugo Bar and Kitchens include
Warwick Arts Centre, in Coventry.
In 2008 the investment company
WSH bought an interest in Benugo.
By 2014, the chain had about 2,000 employees.
High Street
In 2014, Benugo operates 11 high street shops throughout London, including Clerkenwell, Curzon St, Hanover St, Luton Airport, Covent Garden, Great Portland St, Cannon St, St Pancras, Waterloo Station, Wigmore Street and Victoria.
Benugo specialises in freshly made sandwiches, salads and coffee. The company was presented with a London Lifestyle Award in 2011 as London's Coffee Shop of the Year and 2013.
Public spaces
In addition to the high street business, Benugo also runs the cafes and restaurants in a number of public spaces, including the Victoria and Albert Museum. The company provides catering facilities in the Natural History Museum, The Science Museum, and most recently The British Museum and Wellcome Collection in 2012 and 2013 respectively. In 2013, Benugo began planning a bar and café at the English National Opera. As of 2015, this development is not yet complete.
Benugo also operates ten restaurants in or next to other cultural and public spaces including at the Museum of London, the Bishopsgate Institute, in Hyde Park, at Westminster Abbey, at National Museums Scotland, in Lincoln's Inn Fields and at
Willen Lake
Willen Lake is a visitor attraction and public park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire The site is owned by The Parks Trust, an independent, self-funded charity that cares for and maintains over 6,000 acres of green space across MK.
Willen La ...
in
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
.
The club at the House of St Barnabas
In 2013, Benugo opened The Club restaurant and bar at the House of St Barnabas,
Caterer and Hotelkeeper, ''March 2013'', Benugo to offer homeless people jobs at House of St Barnabas
/ref> and is part of the charity's employment academy. Benugo guarantees to take on a certain number of graduates from the charity's academy per year and also agrees to train them for careers in hospitality within the club.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.benugo.com, Benugo's official website
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Restaurants established in 1998
Catering and food service companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Islington
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom