Greggs is to axe more than 800 jobs because of a drop in sales as a result of Covid-19 - just weeks after being given the green light to open Scotland's first drive-thru.
The bakery giant is set to open a new takeaway restaurant at Great Western Retail Park in Glasgow's Drumchapel.
But the firm's boss has warned the chain "will not be profitable as a business" if sales continue at the rates they have been in lockdown.
Chief Executive Roger Whiteside confirmed the plans in a statement posted on the Greggs employee information website earlier this week.
He said: "Covid trading conditions have forced this action onto our business and we are all very saddened by the need to part company with around 820 friends and colleagues, many of whom have worked with us for many years."
He went on to say that "the battle with Covid hasn't gone away and is intensifying further" as lockdown measures continue to be in place across the four nations of the UK.
Mr Whiteside added: "At lockdown levels of sales, even after all of the mitigating action that we have taken, Greggs will not be profitable as a business and there can be no room for complacency."
At the end of September, the chain said it was in talks with staff to cut hours to try and minimise job losses when the furlough scheme was expected to end in October.
Mr Whiteside told reporters at the time: "Some stores have staff hours which are just off what's needed for current demand. But others are a long way off and will need significant change."
It is unclear how many jobs due to be axed by the Newcastle-based business will be in Scotland.
