HMP Berwyn in North Wales is the fifth prison where Sirieix has opened restaurants, in partnership with Novus Cambria. Restaurant Opportunity opened in January 2024 to enable prisoners to cook fresh dishes for the prisoner staff.
Sirieix told BBC News: "The goal of sending people to prison is obviously to protect society, but also to rehabilitate people and make sure that they are ready to be released in society and to play their part.
“We are opening another five this year, and our goal is to open a restaurant in every prison in the UK, because every prison needs to feed their staff.
“We have a huge shortfall in manpower, in hospitality, because, you know, 40 to 50% of the manpower is coming from abroad, and we need to be training and developing our own talent here in the UK, and this is part of that.”