Restaurant chain Pizza Express has withdrawn from a major hotel and restaurants development in North Wales.
Opus North is developing Tudno Point in Llandudno - building a Premier Inn and a number of restaurant units on the site of the former Tudno Castle Hotel.
But Pizza Express - which signed up in 2017 - has now pulled out of the £10m scheme, which also lost Prezzo last year.
Beefeater are still coming to the scheme and the developer says they have "irons in the fire" to bring other chains to Llandudno.
It comes amid a difficult time nationally for the eating out sector.
Restaurant chain Pizza Express is reportedly preparing itself for debt talks with creditors amid difficult trading conditions.
James Farnaby, development manager at Opus North, said: "Pizza Express is no longer coming to the site but this is a national decision rather than anything related to the Llandudno development.
"We have other irons in the fire for the remaining units and are in discussions.
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"Once the scaffolding comes down to show this attractive building then it will be time to get more people engaged."
The site is due to be handed over to Premier Inn next April with the company then set to kit out the site ready for opening later in the year.
Pizza Express currently has two restaurants in North Wales - in Wrexham and on Broughton Shopping Park.