Burger King UK boss warns of permanent closures, job cuts: report
The chain has reopened about 370 of its 530 restaurants.
The chief executive of Burger King’s UK business warned that the economic damage caused by COVID-19 may push the fast food chain to permanently shut up to 10% of its restaurants.
"We don't want to lose any. We try very hard not to, but one's got to assume somewhere between 5% and 10% of the restaurants might not be able to survive," he told the BBC's Newscast.
Those closures, Alasdair Murdoch told the BBC, could lead to more than 1,600 lost jobs.
Burger King has reopened about 370 of its 530 restaurants in the UK.
Whilst lauding the government’s recently-announced hospitality package, Murdoch said the potential closures were a result of costs such as rent and "taking absolutely no money.”
"It's not just us - I think this applies to everyone out there in our industry," he added.
Read the full report here.
