BrewDog to close 10 bars amid ‘extremely difficult’ time for hospitality industry

BrewDog says it is ‘working hard to minimise the impact on our people’, and expects to redeploy many affected staff across its network. Photograph: Simon Jacobs/PA

BrewDog will close 10 bars, including its flagship location in Aberdeen, amid an “extremely difficult” environment for pubs and restaurants.

James Taylor, the chief executive of the brewer, told staff in an email that it was no longer viable to keep the bars open. They are in Aberdeen, Brighton, Camden, Dundee, Leeds North Street, Oxford, Sheffield, Shepherd’s Bush, Shoreditch and York.