Motorway restaurant group, Little Chef, has announced it is to close 67 of its 161 outlets and make between 500 and 600 job cuts.
The firm has said the jobs being cut are a mix of full and part-time positions around the UK.
It is closing the restaurants because they are making a loss, it said.
Little Chef blamed the weak economy and the location of the branches for their poor performance. It will leave the company with about 1,500 staff.
The company said it would work to find alternative employment where possible for those affected by the store closures.
"We've got 161 sites, some very good, very profitable. Others suffer from a series of problems including high rents and demographic changes. I decided to make a strategic decision not to focus on those sites," Little Chef chairman Graham Sims told the BBC.
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