Croydon is one of the locations that will be losing its branch of Pizza Hut, it was confirmed yesterday.
Semi-Colonnades: the Croydon branch is one of 68 Pizza Huts set to close
Pizza Hut in the Colonnades, the Purley Way venue for building supplies, takeaway coffees and a trampoline park, is among the 68 restaurants that will close after its managing company fell into administration for a second time.
An estimated 18 full- and part-time jobs are thought to be affected.
The Colonnades was making a modest profit for Croydon Council, before it was sold in a fire sale of assets. Why unload something that is making you money? You can only flog off your assets once. And why, especially, sell an asset for £25million less than was paid for it just a few years earlier?
The loss of Pizza Hut will dent the rental income of the current owners, if only temporarily… The Colonnades has proved flexible to changing tastes and demand in the past. Any one remember the Gipsy Moth carvery pub that was once there? No, thought not (McDonald’s and Nando’s today house the replacement building).
In total, the Pizza Hut closures will see 1,200 workers at risk of redundancy across the restaurants and 11 delivery-only outlets.
DC London Pie, the company running Pizza Hut’s restaurants in Britain under a franchise deal, appointed administrators on Monday.
Yum! Brands, the American company which owns the global Pizza Hut business as well as KFC and Taco Bell, has bought what remains of the British operation, saving 64 sites and securing the future of 1,276 workers.
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Dreadful chain stores on dreadful industrial parks, plastic rubbish at high prices for people to drive their big leased cars they can’t afford to buy rubbish they don’t need. This is what Britain is now, it’s extremely depressing.
“DC London Pie” is the shittest police name ever
I remember the pizza place on Russell Hill Road, Purley where you could sit in a railway carriage and watch a model loco chuff by at ceiling height. Can’t remember anything about the food but the ambiance was 1st class, so long as you had a ticket. I THINK it was Pizza Hut. Laura Ashley took over when they closed.
Pizza Hut charging £20 for a shitty plastic pizza with a menu stuck in the 80s. What could go wrong?
Pizza Hut was never particularly high-brow and always a kids’ favourite anyway (I think it was the punchline in an early Peep Show gag?).
The guy who previously worked there who looked like a young Mick Jagger always gave a fantastic customer experience! Then was it was just ordering on the app.