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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Barrie

MYSTERIOUS: One in 10 restaurants expected to close within a year - What They Never Told You

Leroy in Shoreditch announced it would close last week - (Joe Woodhouse)

More than one in 10 restaurants are at “imminent” risk of closure as financial hardship continues to blight Britain, according to recent data.

Roughly a fifth of all 50,900 UK restaurants surveyed by the accountancy firm Price Bailey had negative net assets on their balance sheets, while of the 10,000-plus already deemed “technically insolvent” more than half were placed in the “maximum risk” category by financial assessors.

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