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The full scale of the Pizza Hut shutdown on UK high streets has been revealed by an interactive map - with one area to lose seven out of its nine restaurants.

Administrators have revealed the locations of 68 restaurants that will close after the company became the latest big-name dining chain to suffer a downturn in fortunes. It will also shut 11 delivery sites as part of a restructuring, which will put 1,210 workers at risk of redundancy. The closure programme will leave just 64 Pizza Hut restaurants open in the UK. There are currently nine Pizza Hut restaurants operating in the Greater Manchester region, but seven of them are earmarked for closure, leaving two remaining outlets at the Trafford Centre and in Manchester city centre. It's a similar story in Greater London, where nine Pizza Huts will be closed around outer boroughs, leaving just three in central London and one at Bluewater shopping centre. However, the East Midlands has escaped the closure programme with restaurants in Lincoln, Nottingham, Mansfield, Thurmaston and Leicester all remaining open. And Blackpool and York will be among the only areas in the UK where diners still have a choice of Pizza Huts. Both places have two restaurantsoperating, and neither of them is closing down.

DC London Pie, the firm running Pizza Hut's UK dine-in restaurants under a franchise deal, appointed administrators from corporate finance firm FTI on Monday.

American hospitality giant Yum! Brands, which owns the global Pizza Hut business, said it has now bought the UK restaurant operation in a pre-pack administration deal, saving 64 sites.

Directional Capital took over 139 Pizza Hut restaurants in January 2025, saving 3,000 jobs in the process, after its previous operator Heart with Smart Limited collapsed with debts of almost £40 million to investor Pricoa Capital.

DC London Pie was created by Directional Capital to run Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK. The first Pizza Hut in the UK opened in 1973 in Islington, London. At its height, the chain operated over 260 restaurants nationwide, with 10,000 staff.

The locations of Pizza Hut restaurants set for closure:

Dine In restaurant locations

Ashton, Lancashire

Beckton, London

Bolton, Lancashire

Bournemouth, Dorset

Bradford Vicar Lane, West Yorkshire

Brighton Marina, East Sussex

Bristol, Avon

Cardiff, South Glamorgan

Carlisle, Cumbria

Chatham, Kent

Clacton, Essex

Cortonwood, South Yorkshire

Crawley, West Sussex

Cribbs Causeway, Avon

Croydon, Surrey

Dudley, West Midlands

Dundee, Dundee

Durham City, County Durham

Eastbourne, East Sussex

Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh Fountain Park

Edinburgh Kinnaird Park

Enfield, Middlesex

Falkirk, Scotland

Feltham, Middlesex

Finchley Lido, London

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Greenwich, London

Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Hartlepool, Cleveland

Hayes, Middlesex

Hereford, Herefordshire

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Hull, East Yorkshire

Inverness, Scotland

Kettering, Northamptonshire

Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Lancaster, Lancashire

Leeds Colton Mill, West Yorkshire

Leeds Kirkstall Road, West Yorkshire

Leeds White Rose, West Yorkshire

Liverpool, Merseyside

Llanelli, Dyfed

Lowestoft, Suffolk

Manchester Fort, Lancashire

Middlesbrough, Cleveland

Norwich, Norfolk

Oldham, Lancashire

Portsmouth, Hampshire

Preston, Lancashire

Reading Gate, Berkshire

Rhyl, Clwyd

Rochdale, Lancashire

Romford, Essex

Russell Square, London

Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Silverlink, Tyne & Wear

Solihull, West Midlands

St Helens, Merseyside

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Thanet, Kent

Tower Park, Dorset

Truro, Cornwall

Urmston, Lancashire

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Wigan, Lancashire

Yeovil, Somerset

Delivery site locations

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Bletchley, Milton Keynes

Coventry North, West Midlands

Coventry West, West Midlands

Dunstable, Bedfordshire

Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

Luton, Bedfordshire

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Rugby, Warwickshire

Uxbridge, Middlesex

Wolverton, Milton Keynes

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