Overview

• DC London Pie Limited appointed FTI Consulting as administrators for the UK dine-in estate on October 20.
• Yum! Brands acquired the dine-in operations through a pre-pack, with 64 restaurants moving to a new Yum-run equity business under TUPE.
• Sixty-eight dine-in sites fall outside the deal and are set to close, with no confirmed list of affected locations released yet.
• Staffing impacts remain unclear, with reports ranging from about 1,210 redundancies to 741 roles at risk and 1,277–2,259 workers transferring.
• Most outlets report takeaway and delivery locations continue to operate unaffected, following weeks of financial strain that included an HMRC winding-up petition.