Archive · 7 Oct 2026
Common Table Group Acquires 57 Former Whitbread Restaurant Sites
Common Table Group is buying 57 restaurants and one hotel from Whitbread.
Many of the restaurants used to be Beefeater, Brewers Fayre or Cookhouse locations.
Common Table plans to fix up the sites and create new menus.
The restaurants are expected to start opening again next month.
The deal could create about 700 jobs.
Former Whitbread managers are helping the new owner with the takeover.
Whitbread says rising costs, including business rates and National Insurance, contributed to its decision to close its restaurant chains.
The company plans to focus more on its Premier Inn hotels.
Common Table Group agreed to buy 57 former Whitbread restaurant sites and one Premier Inn hotel for an undisclosed sum.
The sites include former Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Cookhouse locations.
The new owner plans refurbishments and new menus, with restaurants expected to reopen from next month.
The deal is expected to create around 700 jobs.
Whitbread is exiting its restaurant operations as part of a restructuring to focus more heavily on its hotel business.
- Who
- Common Table Group is buying the sites from Whitbread, with former Whitbread managers supporting the new owner.
- What
- The deal covers 57 former restaurant sites and one Premier Inn hotel; the restaurants are planned to reopen under new ownership.
- When
- The deal was announced in the article, and restaurant reopenings are expected from next month.
- Where
- The acquired sites are in the UK; the article also says Common Table's sister company Rodeo operates in London and Manchester.
- Why
- Whitbread is selling the sites as part of a restructuring to exit non-hotel restaurant operations and concentrate on its hotel business.
- Buyer
- Common Table Group
- Seller
- Whitbread
- Sites acquired
- 57 restaurant sites and one Premier Inn hotel
- Restaurant brands represented
- Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Cookhouse
- Expected jobs
- Around 700
- Expected reopening
- From next month
- Sale price
- Undisclosed
- Whitbread restructuring
- Plans include around £2 billion in cost reductions and almost 4,000 job cuts