A NEW chicken restaurant is opening in York as a former fish and chip shop owner teams up with her son for the river-side venture.

Winner Winner is opening on Friday in the former Waterfront Hotel restaurant in King's Staith.

The new restaurant, which has already created five jobs with further vacancies still available, specialises in chicken dishes and a Hawaiian-style Tiki bar.

The business is being launched by chef Michael Shepherd, in partnership with his mother who used to own Potter Hill Fish Shop in Pickering.

Mr Shepherd said: "I have spent the last five years working in Manchester as a chef for a variety of restaurants.

"When I moved back home to York I noticed there was a gap in the market to recreate some of the food offerings that had been popular in Manchester.

"My mum was selling her fish and chip shop business, so we decided to go into business and create a new restaurant which we think will bring something new to York."

The Waterfront Hotel, which previously operated the restaurant, will continue to run the hotel business on the upper floors.

The hotel had rebranded its restaurant last year under the name The Lazy Cow Steakhouse, but was threatened with legal action by a chain in the south of England which ran four restaurants under the same name.

The Lazy Cow Group said its legal team had taken civil action of a case of infringement against the York restaurant.