Cookhouse + Pub to close all 14 UK restaurants in September

Cookhouse + Pub, which currently operates 14 sites across the UK, will close its doors as part of Whitbread’s decision to shut all of its standalone branded restaurants.

Other chains affected include:

• Brewers Fayre (89 locations) - closing on September 7
• Beefeater (106) - September 10
• Bar + Block (20) - September 3
• Table Table (32) - September 3

The closures follow Whitbread’s announcement in April of plans to cut around 3,800 jobs in the UK and Ireland as part of a five-year strategy to save £250 million.

Whitbread will replace the closed sites with restaurants inside Premier Inn hotels.

Whitbread chief executive Dominic Paul previously said: “We always challenge ourselves to improve and, in light of significant cost increases in the form of business rates and national insurance, as well as the implied market discount to our inherent value, we’ve looked hard at the options open to us to maximise value creation over the medium and long-term.

“This plan will transform Whitbread into a higher-margin, higher-returning pure-play hotel business."

Full list of 14 Cookhouse + Pub restaurants closing in the UK

All 14 Cookhouse + Pub restaurants will close for good on September 3.

The locations of these restaurants are:

• The Brickfield
• Butterley Park
• Cotton Mill
• The Freeman
• The Highwayman
• Honourable Pilot
• Inn on the Park
• Lockyers Quay
• Penhale Round
• Potters Arms
• The Queen Inn

• The Steamboat
• Three Piers
• Woodhorn Grange

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