Company, which also owns Beefeater, shut hotels and restaurants in lockdown
Premier Inn owner Whitbread is to cut 6,000 jobs across its hotels and restaurants, almost one in five of its workforce.
Whitbread, which also owns the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurant chains, has been hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis, which forced it to shut its UK hotels and restaurants for four months during the lockdown. Like-for-like sales collapsed by 77.6% in the first half.
