Starboard Dining is our dedicated Food & Beverage arm with a particular focus on Fast Food and Quick Service Restaurants. Our aim is to bring quality, consistent dining experiences to customers in the UK through franchise partnerships with industry leaders and innovators.
Starboard Dining is focussed on delivering great quality food through our partnership with leading brand franchisors and was started in 2018.
In 2021, we acquired 27 Pizza Hut Delivery stores from the parent brand YUM, the estate spread across England are all established trading units with an opportunity to improve within their markets. Since then, we’ve continued to seek and open new locations such as Leyland in Lancashire.
Our restaurants are located in key hotspots, predominantly in the Midlands and the North West, and we are actively seeking other franchise opportunities and locations to grow our family.
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Renowned for its Italian-American pizza, pasta and sides, Pizza Hut is the world’s largest pizza company. Famed for its consistency while also being an innovator in its sector, Pizza Hut is one of the biggest names in the business.
Introduced in 2022, our Starboard Dining Company Values are the ingredients of our success. They describe what is most important to us and set the standard for how we must all work together to achieve great things.
Our dream is to have 40 trading stores by 2024 under a variety of internationally recognised brands and service models.
All our stores and restaurants are supported by a strong central team and back-office infrastructure, our aim is to be the best franchised business within each estate we operate under whilst maintaining Starboard’s key family-owned focus and style.
We put our people first, our ethos is to be an employer of choice with a focus on attracting and retaining the best talent in the business through our brilliant basics and culture. We offer world class training and continued development through our team’s life cycle with us – regardless of qualifications or experience
To have an open-door policy where any team member can share ideas or ask questions with a transparent and honest approach, based on a mutual trust and respect for each other across all levels in our business. We have an open and people led strategy and meaningful values that we share with our team from day one of joining our family.
FRAZER CALLINGHAM
Managing Director
With a background in food that started with chef training, Frazer’s career in hospitality has stretched from catering and events through to operations, project management and development. He has led the Starboard Dining business since 2019 through its growth and is a key part of the wider Starboard Group senior team.
Outside of the office, Frazer can always be found cooking and entertaining friends or organising and taking part in Charity & Endurance Challenges, helping to raise over £20,000 for various charities so far. He’s a keen Skier and Yogi and an International ITF Taekwondo instructor.
We are actively seeking sites in
Sheffield and the surrounding area
Liverpool and surrounding areas
Birmingham
Northwest England
Northeast England
If you are aware of any existing or potential sites which would help us achieve our ambitious growth plans, please get in touch.
Potential should be in secondary high street or residential shopping parade locations with access to large household areas.
Units should have Sui Generis ‘Hot Food Takeaway’ planning consent (Formerly A5) or potential to change to.
We would also consider acquisition of single or multi-site trading businesses with a potential to rebrand.
If you are aware of any existing or potential sites which would help us achieve our ambitious growth plans, please get in touch.
