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Innkeeper's Lodge
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Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Hospitality
Headquarters	Perth, Scotland
Area served	United Kingdom
Parent	Mitchells & Butlers
Website	http://www.innkeeperslodge.com

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Innkeeper's Lodge is a UK budget hotel chain that is owned by Mitchells & Butlers Group.

Overview

Innkeeper's Lodge have a total of 88 hotels across Britain, of which, very few are located in city centres or in prominent places.

The company offers more than may be expected of a standard budget hotel chain. Examples include free breakfast, Sky television, free newspapers, power shower and hair dryer.

All hotels have a company pub available, open to hotel guests and the public from 12-10pm daily. Innkeeper's Lodge offers a free continental breakfast for all guests at every location regardless of location or price. During this time the pub is only open to guests.

After mass surveying, in 2004 every hotel room in the company became non-smoking. They were the first nationwide chain to do this.^{[citation needed]}

Restaurants

Innkeeper's Lodge hotels are all attached or on the same site as a pub, which is also owned by the company. Each Pub falls under a brand name depending on the style and food that is offered:

Vintage Inns
Toby Carvery
Harvester
Ember Inns
Sizzling Pub Co.
Pub & Carvery
Innkeeper's Lodge Select

External links

Official Website

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+{{Infobox Company
-'''Simon Morris''', (born [[1977]]) in [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]] is a business [[entrepreneur]] specializing in property.  He is the [[owner]]/[[founder]] of [[Morris Properties (UK)]].
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+| area_served = [[United Kingdom]]
+| industry = [[Hospitality]]
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+| slogan = "More than just a good night's sleep"
+| homepage = http://www.innkeeperslodge.com
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+'''Innkeeper's Lodge''' is a UK budget hotel chain that is owned by [[Mitchells & Butlers|Mitchells & Butlers Group]].
+==Overview==
-==Business Biography==
+Innkeeper's Lodge have a total of 88 hotels across [[United Kingdom|Britain]], of which, very few are located in city centres or in prominent places.
-Morris began in business selling leather coats after he had dropped out of studying a year into a law degree at Lancaster University. He soon swapped his coats for bricks and mortar, bought his first flat, refurbished it and sold it for a profit. That was the beginning of Morris Properties, which specialises in residential property for students and young professionals. Its foundations are in Leeds, but the company is also involved in developments across Yorkshire as well as in Nottingham, Derby and Cardiff as it continues to grow at a brisk rate. Morris Properties (UK) is totally owned by its founder and made a £15.4m profit in 2005-06, while First City Rentals, in which Morris has a 65% stake, made a £2.3m profit. Morris is a former director of Leeds United football club. Morris Properties has just moved into new £8m purpose-built headquarters at Brewery Wharf in Leeds city centre and employs about 100 people. He has recently reduced the number of people that he employees directly due to Police [http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=2&iid=161] and Fraud Squad [http://www.sfo.gov.uk/cases/guidance.asp ] Investigations in his belief that the people who work for him cannot be interviewed if they are not directly on his pay-role but rather are registered with an employment agency. He has sold vastly over-valued houses with vastly inflated rental incomes to many hundreds of unsuspecting customers [http://www.offplanpropertyexchange.com/off-plan-property-investment/blog/2008/02/08/the-morris-properties-scandal-and-why-you-should-watch-out-for-the-property-scammers/]. Most sales include 2 year rental and sometimes mortgage subsidy guarantees in an attempt by Morris to hide the true value of the property and the true rental income value of the property. Once the property is purchased from Morris all the payment guarantees (rental and mortgage subsidy) stop being paid resulting in most of the properties becoming re-possessed. He also offered a 'cash-back' incentive to clients who purchased more than one property. The 'cash-back' has not been repaid to clients upon completion of the sale as had been agreed. There are currently more than one group of legal super-cases underway against Morris for fraud. He has offered one group of investors, being represented by Max Gold Solicitors [http://www.maxgold.com/Templates/MG_Default.asp?modeID=&DoLogin=], £700,000.00 as 'a goodwill gesture'. The group have rejected the offer [http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Tycoon-money-back-battle.3787337.jp]. Max Gold is currently representing almost 150 people who are taking legal cases against Morris. He is also under investigation by several media group's including the BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2007/10/09/yorkslincs_student_housing_s12_w4_feature.shtml] and Panorama [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7228220.stm] because of the way his unsuspecting customers have been treated at his hands.  Many of the properties have been repossessed after failing to cover the monthly repayments.
+The company offers more than may be expected of a standard budget hotel chain. Examples include free breakfast, Sky television, free newspapers, power shower and hair dryer.
-==Business In Administration==
-It has been announced that SRM Holdings, the Leeds based property group owned by Simon Morris has gone into administration together with most of its 50 subsidiaries [http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/BREAKING-Property-firm-owned-by.4565052.jp]. Insolvency firm Begbies Traynor has been appointed as administrator [http://www.begbies-traynor.com/north_east/228]. It is understood that the company has debts of more than £50m to a number of high street banks and the possibility of fraud and irregularities within the businesses is being investigated including : - 1. Mortgage Fraud and property over valuation 2. Non payment of rental income to his clients 3. Non payment of rental guarantees 4. Non payment of mortgage subsidies 5. Non payment of deposit incentives as had been agreed pre sale 6. Non payment of costs and fees as had been agreed pre sale 7. Properties having less rentable rooms than they had been valued and sold as having 8. Many properties having the same valuerers’ signature despite the properties being in vastly different locations in the country 9. The service costs per year for a leasehold property being up to 200% higher that had been quoted by Morris at the time of sale 10. Many properties were not finished inline with Morris Property/Intellectual Property sales documentation 11. Many of the properties sold have extremely high maintenance costs and low tenant satisfaction as a result of the properties having been badly finished with many having excessive damp.
+All hotels have a company pub available, open to hotel guests and the public from 12-10pm daily. Innkeeper's Lodge offers a free [[continental breakfast]] for all guests at every location regardless of location or price. During this time the pub is only open to guests.
-Property investors launched a group action against Mr Morris with the help of Max Gold solicitors earlier this year.
+After mass surveying, in 2004 every hotel room in the company became non-smoking. They were the first nationwide chain to do this.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}
-They claim that they were sold student flats at inflated prices, The number of financial experts delving into the dealings of Mr Morris's collapsed property business was growing today [http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Simon-Morris-Leeds-property-mogul.4574083.jp].
+==Restaurants==
-Richard Fleming and Mark Firmin from KPMG's Restructuring practice in Leeds have been appointed as joint administrators to 20:20 Developments (Management) Ltd and Skinner Lane (Commercial) Ltd – both subsidiaries of SRM Holdings Ltd which went into administration on Tuesday.
+Innkeeper's Lodge hotels are all attached or on the same site as a [[public house|pub]], which is also owned by the company. Each Pub falls under a brand name depending on the style and food that is offered:
-Together, the two companies hold a development site of approximately 272 residential flats in Skinner Lane, Leeds.
+*Vintage Inns
+*Toby Carvery
+*Harvester
+*Ember Inns
+*Sizzling Pub Co.
+*Pub & Carvery
+*Innkeeper's Lodge Select
+==External links==
-Richard Fleming, joint administrator and head of KPMG's Restructuring practice in the North, said: "We've been appointed as administrators to one specific development, which is the major asset within the SRM Group."
+* [http://www.innkeeperslodge.com Official Website]
+[[Category:Hotel chains]]
-==Leeds United==
-Simon, a former director of Leeds United recently tabled a bid to buy the club. That bid however failed as Ken Bates retained control of club after winning 75.2% of the votes from the creditors [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article1880470.ece]. As the take over bid is being challenged in court by HM Revenue & Customs, there was a possibility that Simon could once again mount a bid to gain control of the club. In the end Ken Bates retained control of the club after increasing his offer to creditors.
-==Suspected Shooting==
-On Friday, 24th August 2007 at 20:45, Simon's Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren was attacked in Tong Lane, Leeds [http://football-chat.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8043]. Police are investigating what they are calling a 'firearms incident'. Simon says that it may have been a brick that struck his car. He suffered minor injuries in the incident and did not require any medical treatment nor did his 26 year old passenger.  The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that Morris suffered superficial facial injuries in a shotgun attack while driving in Moortown, Leeds [http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/BREAKING-Property-firm-owned-by.4565052.jp].
-==References==
-<references/>
-[[Category:1977 births]]
-[[Category:Living people]]
-[[Category:People from Leeds]]