Fate of Northamptonshire's four Pizza Hut restaurants revealed amid closure plans

Pizza Hut has revealed the list of 29 diners set to close.

The UK franchise of the global brand confirmed yesterday plans to cull more than 10 per cent of its 244 sites sparking fears for the future of jobs at its four Northamptonshire restaurants.

But a full list of the 29 sites earmarked for closure published on Friday morning — putting 450 jobs at risk — did not include any of the restaurants in Northampton, Wellingborough or Kettering.

Pizza Hut announced its plans following "significant disruption" during the coronavirus pandemic and warned that sales "are not expected to fully bounce back until well into 2021."

A number of high-profile restaurant and food chains have announced job cuts following the Covid-19 crisis including Frankie & Benny's, Bella Italia and Pizza Express.

But Northamptonshire's outlets have so far escaped the worst of the cuts.

The published list of Pizza Huts closing is: Cambridge, Leicester, Grantham, Huddersfield, Glasgow, Cumbernauld, Plymouth, Maidenhead, Oxford, Dunstable, Bury St Edmunds, Chelmsford, Leyton Mill, Scarborough, Worcester, Stafford, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Thornton Cleveleys, Penistone, Sheffield, Croydon, Maidstone, Gravesend, Salisbury, Basingstoke, Brighton, Weston-super-Mare, Cardiff, Stratford.

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