Jobs secure as Pizza Hut in Peterborough is saved from closure

The outlet in Carr Road, at Boongate roundabout, has not been included among 29 UK restaurants the company has announced are to close as part of a nationwide restructuring.

The company announced two days ago that 450 jobs from its 5,500 were at risk under its plans to shut 29 of its 245 stores.

The Covid-19 outbreak has piled extra pressures on the eat out sector which was already struggling.

Rival Pizza Express has also just approved the closure of 73 of its own sites, hitting 1,100 workers.

The Pizza Hut branches to close are:

1. Basingstoke Retail Park

2. Brighton City Centre

3. Bury St Edmunds

4. Cambridge, Regent Street

5. Cardiff, Culverhouse Cross

6. Chelmsford, Moulsham Street

7. Croydon, North End

8. Cumbernauld

9. Dunstable

10. Glasgow, Great Western Retail Park

11. Grantham

12. Gravesend

13. Huddersfield, John William Street

14. Leicester, Haymarket

15. London, Leyton Mill

16. London, Stratford

17. Maidenhead

18. Maidstone

19. Newcastle-under-Lyme

20. Oxford

21. Plymouth Royal Parade

22. Salisbury

23. Scarborough

24. Sheffield, High Street

25. Sheffield, Penistone Road

26. Stafford

27. Thornton Cleveleys

28. Weston-Super-Mare

29. Worcester

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