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Jobs Lost as Major UK Restaurant Chain Closing All 106 Sites After 52 Years
Whitbread said the changes could cut around 3,800 jobs as some sites are converted to Premier Inn rooms or the Thyme brand.
- On Thursday, September 10, all 106 Beefeaters pub-restaurants will close, while Whitbread's 89 Brewers Fayre sites shut yesterday, Monday, September 7, as part of a wider restructuring plan for the owner of the Premier Inn hotel brand.
- Earlier this summer, Whitbread announced a restructuring plan to convert several restaurants into additional Premier Inn hotel rooms, optimizing its real estate portfolio across the UK and Ireland.
- Whitbread anticipates a reduction of around 3,800 roles, impacting about 12 per cent of the company's 30,000-strong workforce in the UK and Ireland, though the company says it is attempting to redeploy impacted colleagues.
- Affected sites include branches in Durham, Stockton-on-Tees, North Tyneside, Bishop Auckland, Hartlepool, and Sunderland, which ceased operations yesterday, Monday, September 7, as part of the broader restructuring.
- Founded in 1974, Beefeaters once operated over 250 locations at its height in the late 1990s; some eateries have already switched to Whitbread's in-house Thyme brand during the transition.
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Jobs lost as major UK restaurant chain closing all 106 sites after 52 years
All 106 Beefeater restaurants will close on Thursday, September 10, as parent company Whitbread begins a major business restructure.
·Basingstoke, United Kingdom
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