73 Pizza Express restaurants due to close including Dalton Park site as 1,100 jobs expected to be cut

Pizza Express in Dalton Park will be among 73 of the chain’s restaurants to close after restructuring plans were approved by creditors.
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The plans will push forward to close Pizza Express restaurants across the country, leading to around 1,100 job cuts.

In the North East, four sites are set to close permanently – this includes the Dalton Park, Newcastle, Gosforth and Darlington restaurants.

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Pizza Express has become the latest dining chain to shut sites after revenues dived following the enforced closure of its restaurants in March.

Pizza Express restaurants are being closed across the country (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images).Pizza Express restaurants are being closed across the country (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images).
Pizza Express restaurants are being closed across the country (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images).

The group currently has 355 sites open, with more than 30 others set to reopen in the coming weeks.

The following sites have been earmarked for permanent closure:

Aberdeen (Belmont St)

Aylesbury

Barnstaple (Three Tuns)

Biggleswade

Billericay

Birmingham (Corporation St)

Birmingham (Mailbox)

Bournemouth (Post Office Rd)

Bramhall

Bristol (Berkeley Sq)

Bristol (Regent St)

Bromsgrove

Bruton Place

Charlotte St

Chippenham

Dalton Park

Darlington

Dudley (Merry Hill)

Earls Court (Earls Ct Rd)

Edinburgh (Holyrood)

Formby

Fulham Palace Road

Glasgow (Princes Square)

Glossop

Gosforth

Grantham

Halifax

Hampstead

Hatch End

Hereford

Heswall

Ipswich (Lloyds Ave)

Leeds (Crown St)

Leeds (Horsforth)

Ludlow

Lymington

Melton Mowbray

Midhurst

Milton Keynes (Hub)

Moseley

New Brighton

Newcastle

Newport (Isle of Wight)

Newport (South Wales)

Northallerton

Nottingham (Goosegate)

O2 Finchley

Orpington

Oxford (Oxford Castle)

Poole

Port Solent

Ramsgate

Reading (St Mary’s Butts)

Scarborough

Sheffield (Devonshire St)

Sheffield The Moor

Shirley

Southport (Old Bank)

Stafford

Staines

Stoke

Stourbridge

Sudbury

Torquay

Uxbridge

Wakefield

Walsall

Wapping

Wardour St

Weston-super-Mare

Whiteley Village

Whitstable

Wrexham

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