Goodman Restaurant Group, the parent company of the premium steakhouse concept and Burger & Lobster, has appointed a Daria Ovchenkova as its new finance director.
Ovchenkova joins the group, which operates the Goodman steakhouses as well as the Beast and Rex & Mariano restaurants in the capital, after a year as director financial reporting, Europe at Fox International.
Prior to that, she was group finance director at RSS Jet Centre for two years.
Burger & Lobster recently signed a deal with Global Hospitality Asset Management (GHAM) to open its first site in the Middle East this autumn in Dubai.
GHAM is the current franchise partner in the UAE for the Blue Marlin and Bistrot Bagatelle concepts.
B&L, which is lining up further openings in the UK in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds and London’s Holborn and Canary Wharf, recently opened its first franchise site in Stockholm and as previously reported by M&C has signed deals to open in a number of Middle East territories over the next few years.
The group opened its latest site under its core brand earlier this summer on the former Pacific Oriental site in Threadneedle Street.
It will open in Manchester this month and Bath next month.
