The Restaurant Group plc announced the appointment of Loraine Woodhouse as a Non-Executive Director. She joins the Company's Board as of today's date and will become a member of both the Audit and Nomination Committees. Loraine is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at The British Land Company plc, and from 1 November 2018 to 16 June 2022 was CFO at Halfords Group plc.

Before joining Halfords, she spent five years in senior finance roles at the John Lewis Partnership, including as Finance Director of Waitrose. Prior to that, Loraine was Chief Financial Officer of Hobbs, Finance Director of Capital Shopping Centres Limited (subsequently Intu plc), and Finance Director of Costa Coffee Limited. Loraine's early career experience included finance and investor relations roles at Kingfisher plc.