The Herald
·23 Aug 2026
Diners urged to use Beefeater loyalty points before closures
Customers have until August 24, 2026, to earn or record Beefeater and Brewers Fayre loyalty points and until August 31 to convert and spend the resulting vouchers. Beefeater restaurants are scheduled to close on September 10, while Brewers Fayre sites are due to shut on September 7, as Whitbread restructures its restaurant estate to expand Premier Inn by converting sites into hotel rooms. Whitbread is also closing other restaurant brands, although Queensway Inns has conditionally agreed to buy 53 of 261 sites and may rebrand them as affordable pubs, potentially transferring around 900 employees. The wider restructuring is expected to lead to about 3,800 job losses.