title: Frank Berni
text: # Frank Berni
  
  Frank Berni (30 October 1903 – 10 July 2000) was an Italian-born British restaurateur, known for the Berni Inn restaurant chain that he founded with his younger brother Aldo Berni.
  
  ## Career
  
  Frank Berni was born on 30 October 1903 in Bardi, northern Italy. He was the eldest of Louis Berni's three sons.
  
  Louis Berni was the owner of a business called Louis Café in Ebbw Vale, Wales.
  
  Berni finished his education in Italy, and then left for Wales, where his father had a cafe business.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  In 1942, Berni married Lina Allegri, who was from a Welsh Italian family involved in the cafe business in Llanelli. They had two daughters.
  
  