The R200 awards celebrate the successes across the restaurant multi-site sector, and this year's winners will be announced at Circolo Popolare in Manchester on 24 November 2025. Here is the shortlist for this year's awards...

Best New Opening

• BLOODsports, Covent Garden
• Cinnamon Kitchen, Leeds
• Circolo Popolare, Manchester
• Kricket, Shoreditch
• OCASA, Manchester
• Permit Room, Portobello
• Sebb’s/Margo, Glasgow
• The Alchemist, Monument

Campaign of the Year

• Bill’s £5 bottomless pancakes
• Hawksmoor £19 steak and chips
• Pho bone broth billboard
• Pizza Express bottomless pizza
• Wagamama Food is Life

Innovation Award

• Bluebird Club
• Bodean’s menu revamp
• Honest Burgers Smash + Grab
• Lounge Passport
• Pizza Express Pod
• Prezzo Italian rebrand
• TGI Fridays relaunch

One To Watch

• Dave’s Hot Chicken
• Forbici
• Junk Burger
• Pick. Your. Own
• Shrimp & Co
• SpudBros

Restaurant Group of the Year (20 sites and under) 

• Big Mamma
• Bleecker Burger
• Dishoom
• Flat Iron
• Individual Restaurant Group
• JKS Restaurants
• Kricket

Scalable Concept Award

• Alley Cats
• Brother Marcus
• Farmer J
• Nell’s Pizza
• Pasta Evangelists
• The Beefy Boys
• Three Uncles

Best Value Restaurant Group

• Blacklock
• Bundobust
• Bunsik
• Caravan
• Flat Iron
• Franco Manca

Food-led Pub Group

• Anglian Country Inns
• Cheshire Cat Pubs and Bars
• Cubitt House
• Heartwood Collection
• Public House Group
• Three Cheers Pub Group

International Company of the Year

• Big Mamma (Barcelona)
• JKS Restaurants (US)
• Permanently Unique (Tattu Dubai)
• Pizza Express (Florida)

QSR Group of the Year

• German Doner Kebab
• Popeyes
• Slim Chickens
• The Salad Project
• Wendy’s
• Wingstop
• Zambrero

Restaurant Group of the Year (over 20 sites)

• Azzurri
• Daisy Green
• Hickory’s
• Loungers
• Mission Mars
• Mowgli
• Pizza Pilgrims
• San Carlo