{"id":516353,"date":"2025-10-21T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516353\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:47:11","slug":"pizza-hut-to-close-68-restaurants-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516353\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Hut to close 68 restaurants in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pizza Hut is set to shut 68 restaurants and a further 11 delivery sites in the UK – at a cost of over 1,200 jobs – after the company operating them fell into administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DC London Pie appointed FTI Consulting as administrators yesterday, plunging the future of the chain in the UK into doubt.<\/p>\n

However, Yum! Brands, Pizza Hut’s global owner, has confirmed it will step in to save 64 restaurants and 1,276 jobs, the BBC said.<\/a><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Pizza Hut UK said: “We are pleased to secure the continuation of 64 sites to safeguard our guest experience and protect the associated jobs.”<\/p>\n

Nicolas Burquier, managing director for Pizza Hut Europe and Canada, said: “This targeted acquisition aims to safeguard our guest experience and protect jobs where possible.”<\/p>\n

Frank Bouette, a partner at city law firm DMH Stallard and specialist in restructuring and insolvency, said: “Operating as a dine in and delivery model when there is fierce competition by delivery online models – with lower overheads –\u00a0was always going to be a challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“As the market shifted toward fast app-based delivery, delayed investment in tech and logistics has caught up with them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Add in varying product experience across locations; blurred market positioning; the cost of physical restaurants (which its delivery competitors didn\u2019t have); the overhang and effect of the pandemic on dining trends; and inconsistent brand delivery resulting from varying franchises \u2013 it\u2019s a wonder it survived this long.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pizza Hut is set to shut 68 restaurants and a further 11 delivery sites in the UK –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-516353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115410819750568376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}