Inverness Pizza Express restaurant to reopen next week
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The Pizza Express branch in Inverness will reopen next week – though there is still no word on the longer term future for it and dozens of other branches.
Bosses at Pizza Express have announced plans to reopen branches of the restaurant chain across the country next week, for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown.
The Inverness branch in the city's Falcon Square will reopen on Thursday, August 13 with additional safety measures in place including a physically distanced layout, hand sanitiser stations, heightened cleaning and hygiene procedures and regular health checks of staff members.
To further encourage social distancing measures among customers a new online booking service has also been introduced, alongside a new digital menu and cashless payment in its restaurants.
Managing director Zoe Bowley said: "The response to our online booking system, new digital menus and cashless payments has been fantastic, and we continue to encourage everyone to use these services as much as possible as their local restaurant reopens.
"We are very grateful for the way that our customers have embraced our new procedures."
Pizza Express will be participating in the Eat Out to Help Out scheme offering customers a 50 per cent discount on restaurant food and drink on Mondays to Wednesdays throughout August.
No further details have been given, however, on the news earlier this week that Pizza Express is considering closing 67 UK restaurants.
Pizza Express has heavy debts and last year was known to have started talks to put its debts on more favourable terms.
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