Prime Restaurants

Prime Restaurants Inc. (formerly Prime Restaurant Royalty Income Fund) was a Canadian holding company, which operated the restaurant chains East Side Mario's and Bier Markt, and Prime Pubs their Irish Pubs subsidiary which included: Tir Nan Og, Paddy Flaherty's, D'Arcy McGee's, and Fionn MacCool's.

Prime Restaurants, Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Restaurants
Founded	Sudbury, Ontario (1980)
Headquarters	Mississauga, Ontario , Canada
Area served	all of Canada & 3 US states
Key people	Nicholas Perpick & John Rothschild
Products	Italian food, Irish pub, bar and grill, brasserie other food products
Revenue	CDN$
Parent	Recipe Unlimited (2013–2022) Foodtastic (2022– present)
Subsidiaries	Fionn MacCool's D'Arcy McGee's Paddy Flaherty's Tir Nan Og
Website	http://www.primerestaurants.com http://www.primepubs.com/

Founded in Sudbury, Ontario in 1980 as Yesac Creative Foods, the company became Prime Restaurants in 1989 when it merged with the Lime Rickey's chain based in Toronto.^[1]

On January 10, 2012, Fairfax Financial completed its acquisition of Prime Restaurants.^[2] In October 31, 2022, Fairfax Financial entered into a strategic partnership with Cara Operations and Cara gained ownership of Prime Restaurants including Prime Pubs.^[3] In May 2018 Cara rebranded itself Recipe Unlimited. In 2022, Prime Pubs subsidiary of Prime Restaurants was sold to Foodtastic^[4][5] who run it under them under the banner Fionn MacCool's. East Side Mario's and Bier Markt were retained by Recipe Unlimited.

See also

• List of Canadian restaurant chains