The closures, including branches in Oxfordshire, are part of the parent company Whitbread’s major restructuring plan, and will see all 106 sites shut permanently. Dishes are served at Beefeater (Image: Jamie Lau)In an email being distributed to previous diners and members of its loyalty schemes, Beefeater shared a message of gratitude, with two prominent words: 'thank you'. Inside Beefeater (Image: Christie Owen & Davies)In the letter, the company also said it would close the loyalty scheme on August 31. One person wrote: "Until I went to university the only restaurant I'd ever been to was a Beefeater. The Ock Mill Beefeater restaurant, linked to the former Premier Inn in Marcham Road, Abingdon, closed in 2023, and the site was bought by the Unicorn School, which is currently renovating the building for classrooms.