Phyllis Lomax was a young woman who Fred Gee met at a banquet laid on by Newton & Ridley in January 1982. Fred was invited at the last minute when a place became free and proceeded to get paralytic. As well as dancing drunkenly with Sarah Ridley and ordering both a space invaders machine for the Rovers and a new car from fellow diners, he met Phyllis and boasted about his "restaurant" and, in his position as "landlord", offered her a job there.