The company is withdrawing from its standalone restaurant chains as it moves towards becoming a hotel-focused business
Whitbread has confirmed the final closing dates for all its restaurants, bringing some of Britain's best-known dining chains to an end within days of each other.
The closure programme was first announced in April and will affect approximately 200 restaurants across the country.
Every Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Bar + Block, Table Table and Cookhouse + Pub site will close in September as the Premier Inn owner cuts approximately 3,800 roles across the UK and Ireland.
All 106 Beefeater restaurants will serve customers for the final time on 10 September.
Whitbread's smaller restaurant brands, including Bar + Block, Table Table and Cookhouse + Pub, will close one week earlier on 3 September.
Brewers Fayre's 89 pubs will then pull their final pints after evening service on 7 September.
The closure programme was first announced in April and will affect approximately 200 restaurants across the country, including sites on high streets and retail parks.
It forms a central part of Whitbread's five-year restructuring plan, which is intended to deliver £250million in cost savings.
The company is withdrawing from its standalone restaurant chains as it moves towards becoming a hotel-focused business built around Premier Inn.
Instead of continuing to operate separate dining brands, Whitbread plans to provide more restaurants inside its Premier Inn hotels.
The company believes this approach will be more efficient and said the in-house restaurant model is "highly popular with hotel guests".
Although Whitbread is significantly reducing its food and drink operations, it plans to expand the number of hotel rooms it offers.
The group currently operates approximately 86,600 rooms and intends to increase that figure to 96,000 by the end of the 2031 financial year.
The expansion underlines Whitbread's plan to simplify its operations and focus its future growth on the hotel market.
Whitbread chief executive Dominic Paul set out the rationale behind the restructuring when the plans were unveiled in April.
"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," he said.
He added that the programme would "transform Whitbread into a higher-margin, higher-returning pure-play hotel business."
The mounting burden of employer national insurance contributions and business rates were cited as key drivers behind the decision to streamline operations.
The family pub and restaurant chain was established in 1981 and became particularly well known for its Sunday carveries.
Its history began with The Farmers Arms near Preston, which was renamed Brewery Fayre before growing into a nationwide brand popular with families and travellers.
