Whitbread to cut 6,000 jobs as hotel demand slumps
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The owner of Premier Inn and Beefeater has warned that 6,000 staff could lose their jobs.
Whitbread blamed the move on a slump in guest numbers since the lockdown.
It said hotel stays in August had halved compared with last year, while diner numbers fell by more than a third, although it said that had been helped by the Eat out to Help Out scheme.
The company said…