Popular Italian food chain Prezzo has announced the closure of 46 restaurants, including one in Harpenden.

The Leyton Road branch is one of a number to face the consequences of "soaring costs and changes to customer habits".

810 workers will be affected by the closures, with the chain claiming that utility costs have more than doubled in recent times.

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According to PA, Prezzo claims that: "The shake-up will impact a raft of sites where footfall is still below pre-pandemic levels, and leave more restaurants in busier shopping destinations such as retail parks or tourist hot-spots."

                                                                                            

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The full list of restaurant closures can be seen below: 

– Beccles

– Billericay

– Bolton

– Borehamwood

– Boston

– Bracknell

– Brentwood

– Buckhurst Hill

– Buckingham

– Chichester

– Chingford

– Colchester

– Corby

– Didcot

– Eastbourne

– Egham

– Eltham

– Ely

– Epsom

– Fleet

– Glasgow, St Vincent Place

– Hailsham

– Harpenden

– Livingston

– Lyndhurst

– Maidstone

– Mere Green

– Mill Hill

– Oxford

– Plymouth

– Redditch

– Redhill

– Rugby

– Shepperton

– Shirley

– Sidcup

– St Neots

– Stowmarket

– Tenterden

– Tunbridge Wells

– Weybridge

– Whitstable

– Wickford

– Wimborne

– Winchester

– Woodford Green