Pub operator Greene King is preparing to close dozens of venues and cut hundreds of jobs following a slump in trade exacerbated by the government’s 10pm hospitality industry curfew.
Sky News reports that started a consultation with 800 employees about a redundancy process.
“Sources close to the company, which has an estate of almost 1,700 managed pubs and 1,000 tenanted venues across Britain, said it would seek to redeploy affected staff wherever possible despite the continuing COVID-19 crisis.“
The group have been running pubs and brewing award-winning beer from its base in Bury St. Edmunds ever since the company was founded in 1799 by 19 year-old Benjamin Greene.
