Brewers Fayre restaurants are set to close as its parent company restructures.
Owner Whitbread, which also runs the Premier Inn hotel chain, is resetting its five-year business strategy following tax rises and investor pressure.
Whitbread began a review in November when it was hit by higher costs in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget.
It has already begun to convert some of its under-performing Brewers Fayre – and Beefeater – restaurants into hotel rooms and will continue to do so among its remaining 197 venues.
Around 3,800 jobs are affected, although Whitbread said it would look to move many into other roles.
In Cumbria, Brewers Fayre restaurants are at the Howgate Hotel near Whitehaven, at Lakeland Gate on Walkmill Crescent in Carlisle, North Road in Barrow and next to its hotel in Cockermouth. It operates a Beefeater at Border Gate in Carlisle.
