Nearly 500 cat figurines have been stolen from a new Gordon Ramsay restaurant in one week at an estimated cost of more than £2,000, the TV chef has said. The restaurateur recently launched Lucky Cat by Gordon Ramsay,

TV chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay has revealed that his new London restaurant, Lucky Cat 22 Bishopsgate, has been hit by a spate of thefts. The Hell's Kitchen star said that hundreds of the lucky beckoning Japanese cat models called maneki-neko, which adorn the restaurant, have been taken.

In 2019, Ramsay signed a deal with private equity firm Lion Capital to form Gordon Ramsay North America. The deal was worth a reported $100 million, with Ramsay and Lion having an equal stake in the subsidiary. Though initially planned as a venture to open 100 restaurants in the United States by 2024, the COVID-19 pandemic dampened those ambitions.

Gordon Ramsay claims his new restaurant has an unusual problem - Famous chef also complained that diners had been swiping the lucky cat statues placed on restaurant tables