RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED

What RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED does

RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED is a privately held, single-site hospitality and entertainment operator based in Woodbridge, United Kingdom. The firm runs an integrated venue that combines a cinema, a restaurant, a bar, private dining facilities, a gift shop, and customer membership schemes, monetizing visitors across multiple on-site spend categories (admissions, food and beverage, retail, events) rather than relying on a single product line.

The business is structured as a for-profit private company with 1-10 employees, operating from a single physical location whose operating history traces to 1915. Its revenue mechanics are typical of an independent mixed-use venue: cinema ticket and concession sales, restaurant and bar covers, private-hire bookings, gift shop transactions, and recurring income from membership schemes. No app, API, online distribution platform, proprietary technology stack, or disclosed digital product has been identified in the source data, and the company's public web presence (theriverside.co.uk) currently renders a verification/loading placeholder with no operational disclosures.

The source data does not provide revenue figures, customer counts, segment mix, ownership structure, management team, partnerships, or any record of funding, M&A, or recent strategic events. As a result, the company's scale, growth direction, and corporate structure cannot be triangulated beyond the basic firmographic profile above.

Name

RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED

Legal name

RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED

Website

https://theriverside.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1915

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT & THEATRE LIMITED is a privately held, single-site hospitality and entertainment operator in Woodbridge, UK, running a combined cinema, restaurant, bar, private dining, gift shop, and membership venue serving local consumers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospitality & Entertainment Venue

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111), Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (711110), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410), Amusement Parks and Arcades (7131)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture Theaters (7830), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Supper Clubs & Dinner-Theater Restaurants (THAFACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cocktail Bars & Lounges (CRANACAD), Lounge Bars & Hotel Bars (THAFAEAI)

Keywords

• Cinema entertainment
• Restaurant dining
• Bar hospitality
• Private dining events
• Gift shop retail

Headquarters

HQ city

Woodbridge

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Riverside Restaurant & Theatre Limited operates a multi-purpose hospitality and entertainment venue in Woodbridge, United Kingdom. The venue combines a cinema with a restaurant, bar, private dining facilities, a gift shop, and membership schemes, offering customers an integrated dining-and-entertainment experience under one roof.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cinema

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Picturehouse Cinemas: Independent UK cinema chain (owned by Cineworld) operating boutique sites with licensed bars, cafés and food service in historic or distinctive buildings - directly comparable to Riverside's heritage-venue cinema + F&B model.
• Everyman Cinemas: UK boutique cinema operator known for cinema + food/drink service at each site, with lounges, sofa seating and bar/restaurant offerings that closely parallel Riverside's combined cinema-restaurant-bar format.
• Curzon Cinemas: UK independent boutique cinema group combining repertory and new-release film programming with licensed bars, cafés and food at heritage venues - a very close analogue to Riverside's cinema-restaurant-bar positioning.
• The Electric Cinema: Historic single-site boutique cinema in London (founded 1910) offering sofa seating, a bar, and food service in a heritage building - matches Riverside's profile as a long-standing independent cinema with on-site dining and bar.
• The Gate Cinema (London): Small independent cinema in Notting Hill known for art-house programming paired with a bar/restaurant offering - a direct analogue of Riverside's combination of curated film programming with on-site food and drink.

Broad incumbents

• Vue Cinemas: Large UK and European cinema chain operating primarily multiplex sites; comparable to Riverside as a competitor for cinema audiences and as an industry benchmark for ticketing economics and operating costs.
• Odeon Cinemas: Largest UK cinema chain; while it is a much larger, multiplex-focused operator, it competes with Riverside for film audiences and increasingly offers enhanced food and beverage at select sites.

Emerging players

• Alcotraz (Liverpool/London): Immersive cocktail-bar concept built around a theatrical prison/performance storyline; relevant as an emerging player blending theatrical entertainment with a bar/hospitality business model similar in spirit to Riverside's theatre + bar combination.

Peers

• Cineworld Group: Major UK/international cinema exhibitor operating multiplex sites; relevant as a broad incumbent in the same primary activity (film exhibition) that Riverside competes against for audience attention and distributor allocation.

Regional players

• Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff): Regional arts centre combining independent cinema, theatre, bar/café and galleries in a single building - a regional peer to Riverside's multi-experience venue model, though serving a different UK geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/theriversidewoodbridge
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-riverside-woodbridge

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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