A café on Eccles New Road said its final farewells today as it sets up to stop serving food and start offering sun tans.
Café Nineteen, which has served food on the main road for two and half years initially saw success, but prompted by the cost of living crisis, decided to transform into a beauty parlour.
Owner, Demi Greaves, 29, said: “We’re turning it into a salon, we’re going to do all sunbeds because there’s not really anything like that around here so we’re transforming it.”
Although the new salon will offer new opportunities, Miss Greaves was still disappointed to see the café go.
She said: “It’s gutting, we’ve obviously had so many customers that have become regulars where we’ve formed friendships with them, which has been nice. If anything it’s just the customers.
“It’s a bit gutting because the business that we’re changing into, the people that come in now they’re not obviously going to come to the new business which is a shame.”
Miss Greaves explained how the cost of living crisis encouraged her to overhaul her business.
She said: “Since the living crisis, I just feel like in this day and age people want to look good rather than eat out. People can make food at home and take it to work themselves rather than paying to eat out whereas everyone wants to look good.
“We were so busy, but since we have come back in January, since Christmas it’s just completely quiet.”
Even with its prosperous cities, the North West had the third highest amount of business closures in the final quarter of 2022 with 8345 businesses shutting according the Office for National Statistics.
Per capita this means one business closed for every 875 people in the North West last quarter, the fifth worst in the country.
Miss Greaves highlighted the importance of supporting local businesses. She said: “Obviously it’s nice you form relationships with people, local people.”
Café Nineteen will be back, but in its new metamorphosed form soon offering a new service to the Eccles New Road area.
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