Hard Rock Cafe, he said, helped upend England’s conservative cuisine and culture. The unpretentious food and communal spirit of rock music brought a wider group of diners to the table.

Hard Rock Cafe said that as of March 2022, it no longer did business in Russia. Photothek via Getty Images Advocates for a free Ukraine said playing such business Russian Roulette is dangerous.

Hard Rock says it's opening five new locations this month but didn't say where. The first Hard Rock Cafe opened in London in 1971. The Seminole Tribe of Florida later purchased the company in 2007.