Overview
- Following its July 22 review, BrewDog shut its Camden flagship on July 25 and nine other UK bars on July 26
- Roughly 100 employees have entered a statutory 14-day redundancy consultation that includes individual meetings
- The brewer says it will seek to redeploy affected staff across its network and provide transition support for those leaving
- Unite Hospitality criticised BrewDog for giving just three days’ notice before the closures, calling the period neither morally nor legally acceptable
- BrewDog attributed the bar rationalisation to unsustainable operations driven by rising operating costs, increased regulation plus economic pressures