Sixty-eight Pizza Hut restaurants across the UK are set to close following the company’s move into administration, putting more than 1,200 jobs at risk.
Franchise operator DC London Pie, which ran Pizza Hut’s UK dine-in restaurants, appointed administrators from FTI Consulting on Monday. The closures include locations from Finchley Lido in London to Carlisle and Rhyl, along with 11 delivery-only outlets.
US parent company Yum! Brands — which also owns KFC and Taco Bell — has stepped in to buy the remaining UK restaurant operations in a pre-pack administration deal, saving 64 sites and 1,276 jobs.
Matt Callaghan, joint administrator at FTI, said the transaction “provides a stable platform for one of the UK’s best-known dine-in brands,” while confirming that support will be offered to employees facing redundancy.
