An interactive map has unveiled the extent of the Pizza Hut closures across UK high streets, indicating that one area will lose seven out of its nine restaurants. The closure announcement affects 68 restaurants and 11 delivery sites, putting 1,210 workers at risk of redundancy as part of the company’s restructuring plan. This initiative will result in only 64 Pizza Hut restaurants remaining open in the UK.
The Greater Manchester region is heavily impacted by the closures, with seven out of the nine operating Pizza Hut restaurants set to shut down, leaving only the outlets at the Trafford Centre and in Manchester city centre operational. Similarly, in Greater London, nine Pizza Hut locations in outer boroughs will close, leaving just three in central London and one at Bluewater shopping centre.
On the positive side, the East Midlands has been spared from the closure program, with restaurants in Lincoln, Nottingham, Mansfield, Thurmaston, and Leicester continuing their operations. DC London Pie, the company managing Pizza Hut’s UK dine-in restaurants under a franchise agreement, has appointed administrators from FTI to oversee the process.
Yum! Brands, the American hospitality giant that owns the global Pizza Hut business, has acquired the UK restaurant operation through a pre-pack administration deal, safeguarding 64 sites. Directional Capital took control of 139 Pizza Hut restaurants in January 2025, rescuing 3,000 jobs after the previous operator, Heart with Smart Limited, collapsed with substantial debts.
Established by Directional Capital to manage Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK, DC London Pie traces its roots back to the opening of the first Pizza Hut in the UK in 1973 in Islington, London. Despite the recent closures, Pizza Hut will maintain its presence in the UK through a combination of company-owned and franchise restaurants, with 351 delivery Huts operating across the UK, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, in addition to the 64 dine-in sites secured in the latest deal.
