Kaieteur Kitchen is one of my favourite restaurants. Faye's hospitality was always so wonderful, and I have so many memories of good times with friends (and my first date with my current partner.) I'm not a lawyer myself, but I have plenty of lawyer friends, and would be happy to connect them with Faye/help in any way I can
Angry and saddened by what's happening to Faye and Kaiteur London. The power of callous landlords to destroy lovingly-built up, much-cherished businesses like food shops and restaurants is deplorable. Well done for highlighting it. I hope something can be done - the refusal to allow Faye a way to settle the backdated bill fairly over time is punitive.
These dirty tricks at Elephant and Castle are so infuriating but also not surprising. The whole redevelopment has been full of these sorts of shenanigans. I have nothing to offer, no expertise or contacts, but just want to add a note of solidarity.
I don’t want to live in a city that’s just hedge-funded chain restaurants and bland corporate identikit high streets.
This us all too common across London. Property ‘developers’ are vampire squids who invade thriving areas where communities have been built by small and well loved businesses. They then engineer planning laws and proceed to suck the lifeblood out of those people and their businesses, hitting them with massive bills for completely unjustified and obscure reasons, to make sure they are driven out. Once they have destroyed a community they then replace with soulless buildings and malls which are virtual ghost towns but pay them handsome rents. The absolute nerve of them to have a PR operations which builds ‘neighbourhoods’ is a terrible insult to the small businesses they have destroyed and the community they have flattened. A few expensive chain restaurants and an overpriced gym do not make a ‘neighbourhood’. London is losing its soul thanks to these people, who will never live there and bank their money on tax havens.
It’s……. not normal to have commercial bills withheld for sixteen quarters then presented to a business with no payment plan available.
An equivalent case study is that Hackney Council suffered a dehabilitating cyber attack in 2020 which meant that they couldn’t collect business rates or council tax payments for over three years. Of course everyone was told to keep the money aside but when payments were able to be processed again, everyone who couldn’t pay a lump sum was offered a payment plan.
Kaieteur Kitchen is one of my favourite restaurants. Faye's hospitality was always so wonderful, and I have so many memories of good times with friends (and my first date with my current partner.) I'm not a lawyer myself, but I have plenty of lawyer friends, and would be happy to connect them with Faye/help in any way I can
Angry and saddened by what's happening to Faye and Kaiteur London. The power of callous landlords to destroy lovingly-built up, much-cherished businesses like food shops and restaurants is deplorable. Well done for highlighting it. I hope something can be done - the refusal to allow Faye a way to settle the backdated bill fairly over time is punitive.
VERY COOL that this story was first broken by both Jonathan Nunn and 10Foot
These dirty tricks at Elephant and Castle are so infuriating but also not surprising. The whole redevelopment has been full of these sorts of shenanigans. I have nothing to offer, no expertise or contacts, but just want to add a note of solidarity.
I don’t want to live in a city that’s just hedge-funded chain restaurants and bland corporate identikit high streets.
This us all too common across London. Property ‘developers’ are vampire squids who invade thriving areas where communities have been built by small and well loved businesses. They then engineer planning laws and proceed to suck the lifeblood out of those people and their businesses, hitting them with massive bills for completely unjustified and obscure reasons, to make sure they are driven out. Once they have destroyed a community they then replace with soulless buildings and malls which are virtual ghost towns but pay them handsome rents. The absolute nerve of them to have a PR operations which builds ‘neighbourhoods’ is a terrible insult to the small businesses they have destroyed and the community they have flattened. A few expensive chain restaurants and an overpriced gym do not make a ‘neighbourhood’. London is losing its soul thanks to these people, who will never live there and bank their money on tax havens.
Surely they knew they had bills and should have kept the money aside. I think it is their own fault.
It’s……. not normal to have commercial bills withheld for sixteen quarters then presented to a business with no payment plan available.
An equivalent case study is that Hackney Council suffered a dehabilitating cyber attack in 2020 which meant that they couldn’t collect business rates or council tax payments for over three years. Of course everyone was told to keep the money aside but when payments were able to be processed again, everyone who couldn’t pay a lump sum was offered a payment plan.
I just believe in people being responsible for their own business. Otherwise it should fail. Sorry.
better brace for the entire UK going bust soon then lol
It sounds like they were trying to be responsible for their business but being met with silence from their landlords