Friends of Food: Cost-of-Living crisis drives Leeds takeaway formerly shortlisted as Restaurant of the Year into liquidation

Yorkshire Post

Popular Leeds takeaway Friends of Food has fallen into liquidation following struggles brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent cost-of-living crisis.  The company, which specialised in vegan fast food including meat-free burgers, was last year shortlisted as Restaurant of The Year for the North East by Uber Eats.

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00:00 Hello, I'm Michael Crosland, business reporter with the Yorkshire Post, and we have some

00:03 sad news today from the Leeds-based vegan takeaway, Friends of Food, which has unfortunately

00:09 fallen into liquidation. The company first started experiencing issues during the COVID-19

00:15 pandemic and then unfortunately was unable to turn things around during the subsequent

00:20 cost of living crisis. The takeaway was previously shortlisted as Restaurant of the Year for

00:25 the North East by Uber Eats. The company appointed liquidators late last month and has now ceased

00:31 trading. A document posted to the company's house shows that the company earned just under

00:37 £100,000 when it stopped trading. The takeaway was first founded by a group of three friends

00:43 who went to Leeds University and decided to set up a takeaway after they finished studying.

00:49 A statement from the liquidator of the company, Clark Bell Practitioners, said that while

00:54 COVID had a considerable impact on the business, it was able to survive it, but then that cost

00:59 increases such as gas and electric unfortunately drove the firm to go into liquidation. That's

01:06 all we have on the business at the minute. I'm Michael Crosland, reporting for the Yorkshire

01:10 Post.

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