- Historic Italian restaurant chain Spaghetti House has closed all its restaurants after its parent company, Lavval Restaurants, entered administration.
- The closure has led to all 101 staff members being made redundant across the company's sites.
- Bosses attributed the decision to escalating costs and challenging trading conditions, citing factors such as the pandemic, Brexit, government budgets, and global instability.
- Three locations had already closed recently, with administrators subsequently shutting the remaining five central London sites.
- Luigi Lavarini, executive chairman of Lavval Restaurants, stated that balancing increased costs with reduced customer demand due to the rising cost of living proved too challenging.
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