UK restaurant chain to shut all 196 sites in weeks as warning to customers issued

Whitbread is closing all 105 Beefeater and 89 Brewers Fayre sites in the coming weeks, with loyalty schemes closing too.

Your wings are going digital. Another Wingstop location supposedly just took cash off its menu as the chain pushes for cashless stores — and customers are outraged over it. The move toward contactless payment started in 2022, when Wingstop rolled out its first “restaurant of the future.” The prototype was in Dallas, Te

Whitbread is closing all 105 Beefeater and 89 Brewers Fayre sites in the coming weeks, with loyalty schemes closing too.

The company was not implicated in the cyclospora outbreak, but the spread of the so-called ‘explosive diarrhea parasite’ still shook confidence