Marks and Spencer is closing 11 cafes in food halls across the country as the firm plans a big shake-up after suffering a crippling cyber attack earlier this year.
The retail company - which runs 565 stores in the UK - said it will introduce more food stores in their place to reflect customer preferences, as part of a wider £300million investment.
Employees at affected cafes will be handed roles elsewhere in the firm, with M&S insisting the decision will lead to no job cuts.
An M&S spokesman said: 'As we look to modernise our food business and offer the best of M&S Food to more people, more often, we're investing in our store estate to give our customers the widest possible product range.
'This includes opening brand-new coffee shops offering delicious food and barista-made fairtrade coffee, including at our brand-new Bristol Cabot Circus store.
'In some of our small Food stores, where customers want a greater range of M&S Food, our transformation also involves repurposing cafe space across 11 small food stores, out of over 300 M&S cafes, coffee shop and coffee to go locations.'
The popular cafes serve a range of breakfast rolls as part of an 'all-day brunch' range, as well as staples such as fish and chips and burgers for lunch. They also offer hot drinks, of course, including large lattes and cappucinos costing £3.90.
The closures are designed to free up space for more popular products and will affect four per cent of the company's 316 food shops across the country.
The major investment plans have already seen M&S convert several full-line shops into food stores, and the firm is hoping to have 420 open by the end of 2028 - an increase of more than 30 per cent.
Existing food-only stores have also been handed extra funds allowing them to serve more customers and modernise their shops.
It comes after M&S restored its popular click-and-collect service for the first time in months following April's crippling cyber attack.
The company halted orders on its website over the Easter weekend and was also left with empty shelves in the wake of the attack.
Customers had to wait until June to use the store's website again as it opened itself back up to online shoppers in the hunt for the latest fashion ranges.
But it took even longer to reinstate M&S' click-and-collect service, which allows users to order items on the website and pick them up in-store the following day.
The system relies on integrating the retailer's online ordering platforms, payments systems, inventory management as well as in-store logistics.
It is likely that April's cyber attack had an effect on these systems' operations and M&S wanted to make sure they were all running smoothly and securely again before reopening the service.
The ransomware attack is thought to have been conducted by hacking collective DragonForce and ended up with the theft of many customers' details - which could have included names, email addresses, postal addresses and dates of birth.
It also resulted in empty shelves after the firm dismantled its inventory management systems to mitigate against further damage by hackers.
While its stores have been able to remain open and trade throughout, contactless payments were impacted initially - while there was also some stock availability issues as it had to temporarily switch to manual processes following the attack.
M&S revealed in May that the hack was caused by 'human error', and would cost it around £300million.
Chief executive Stuart Machin said upon reporting annual figures that hackers gained access to the company's IT systems through a third party.
He said: 'We didn't leave the door open, this wasn't anything to do with under-investment. Everyone is vulnerable. For us, we were unlucky on this particular day through some human error.'
Four people have been arrested in connection with the attacks, as well as separate ones on the Co-op and Harrods.
Two British men aged 17 and 19 were detained in the West Midlands and London alongside a 19-year-old Latvian an a 20-year-old British woman from Staffordshire.
They are accused of a variety of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, including blackmail, money laundering and involvement in organised crime.
All four were arrested at home and had their electronic devices seized for digital forensic analysis.
They have been questioned by specialist National Crime Agency (NCA) officers in relation to the three attacks.
M&S said the incident is likely to drag its group operating profits down by around £300million this year, but it expects this to be reduced through cost management, insurance and other reactions.
The company suggested it could reduce the impact of the attack by as much as 'half'.