Greene King 'will close 79 pubs and restaurants and axe 800 jobs

Hundreds of jobs and scores of pubs are to be shut by Greene King after the 10pm coronavirus curfew and lockdown decimated custom

The company today started a consultation process with 800 employees about a redundancy process, Sky News reports.

It says the company, which has nearly 1,700 managed pubs and 1,000 tenanted venues, wants to redeploy affected staff wherever possible.

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