The cost of utilities, tax and ingredients plus the long, stressful hours have combined to make many small business owners feel they can’t carry on
“It’s tough, because I love the brand,” she says, speaking to The Irish Times in the days leading up to the cafe’s closure. “I love what we’ve built here. I really still believe in it. And you know, I’ve had a full week of customers coming in telling me how heartbroken they are.
‘We’re in our 50s so we didn’t want to be stuck with a big mortgage’: The couple who built their forever home in a Foxrock garden Back in Dublin, Ms Feely found a city experimenting. “I think at the time, the health food scene was really just starting to take off in Dublin,” Ms Feely says. But she adapted. Her partner installed a takeaway hatch at the cafe, with punters driving from all around to grab a coffee while restrictions prohibited indoor dining.
‘I’m not the kind of person who gets down in the dumps, but I am now. It’s just painful... it’s mentally painful’Ms Cousins voices regret about laying off her staff just before the Christmas period. “A lot of them are with me a long time,” she says. “Business models that worked 10 years just don’t work in this economy the way they did,” Ms Feely says. “It’s not enough to just be a cafe. You have to be a cafe with an online store, a delivery service, a click-and-collect service, you’ve to be making your own jam or hot sauce and putting it on the shelves, and then trying to get other people to put it on their shelves.”
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