Loss of Pizza Hut restaurant is blow to hopes of restaurant-led revival of Top Town trading scene

                                     

THE closure of Grimsby's Pizza Hut restaurant is a setback to hopes of a restaurant-and-cinema led regeneration of Top Town.

All restaurants and cafes are finding trading conditions tough as they are squeezed by high overheads such as  the escalating cost of employing staff, business rates, food and drink inflation, competition  and much else.

Pizza Hut has a reputation for family-friendly dining with reasonably-priced pizzas and a help-yourself salad bar.

The branch in Victoria Street is one of 68 to close after its UK operators, DC London Pie, filed for administration.

The full list of branch closures is as follows: 

• Ashton

• Beckton

• Bolton

• Bournemouth

• Bradford, Vicar Lane

• Brighton, Marina

• Bristol

• Cardiff

• Carlisle

• Chatham

• Clacton

• Cortonwood

• Crawley

• Cribbs Causeway

• Croydon

• Dudley

• Dundee

• Durham City

• Eastbourne

• Edinburgh

• Edinburgh, Fountain Park

• Edinburgh, Kinnaird Park

• Enfield

• Falkirk

• Feltham

• Finchley, Lido

• Great Yarmouth

• Greenwich

• Grimsby

• Hartlepool

• Hayes

• Hereford

• Huddersfield

• Hull

• Inverness

• Kettering

• Kidderminster

• Lancaster

• Leeds, Colton Mill

• Leeds, Kirkstall Road

• Leeds, White Rose

• Liverpool

• Llanelli

• Lowestoft

• Manchester Fort

• Middlesbrough

• Norwich

• Oldham

• Poole, Tower Park

• Portsmouth

• Preston

• Reading Gate

• Rhyl

• Rochdale

• Romford

• Russell Square, London

• Scunthorpe

• Shrewsbury

• Silverlink

• Solihull

• St Helens

• Stratford-upon-Avon

• Thanet

• Truro

• Urmston

• Wellingborough

• Wigan

• Yeovil