Whatever happened to Berni Inns?

Berni Inn was founded by Frank and Aldo Berni with an inheritance they received from the death of their mother. It was after World War II that they bought Hort's and started building it into a restaurant chain. Over time, their food menu went out of fashion and they did not change it. When the chain was sold to Whitbread in 1990, they eliminated the brand and folded Berni Inn into the Beefeater chain.

http://www.goforanenglish.com/meals/berni_inn_meal.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1347993/Frank-Berni.html

Thanks SM. Gordon Ramsey was recently seen on TV trying to rescue a restaurant that has previously been a Berni Inn and was still cooking much of the same menu.

It was quite amusing as they had a French chef who didn't care and everything they cooked came out of a packet and was microwaved or deep fried in stale oil.