With sites across the home counties, along the Thames, up to Leeds and down to Bournemouth, Brasserie Bar Company’s rent bill doesn’t come cheap. In the capital, some of the group’s prime locations include Southbank, the Tower of London and Threadneedle street. With this in mind, it may come as a surprise that managing director Richard Ferrier not only sees government intervention in the rent stalemate as unnecessary, but is actively against it.