Overview
- About 200 restaurants are slated to shut in 2026, with roughly 100 additional closures planned for 2027.
- Targets are primarily franchise-owned units more than a decade old that generate under $600,000 in annual sales and can transfer demand to nearby stores.
- The company has not released a list of which of its roughly 3,500 North American restaurants will close.
- The restructuring includes eliminating about 7% of corporate roles and simplifying menus by dropping Papadias and Papa Bites.
- Management says the closures represent about 21% of global sales and are intended to strengthen franchise profitability following a 5.4% Q4 same-store sales decline in North America.