Piccadilly site closes, with loss of 80 jobs, while St Paul’s outlet is bought at last minute by Oliver’s company
Jamie Oliver’s upmarket Barbecoa steakhouses in London have crashed into administration, with 80 staff losing their jobs at the group’s Piccadilly site.
The celebrity chef’s company scrambled together a last-minute deal to save the group’s other outlet – located near St Paul’s Cathedral – with a newly created subsidiary in Oliver’s business empire buying the City diner straight out of administration for an undisclosed sum.
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