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"I'm poor. I do nothing. I drive a s*** car": The café owners whose dreams have become a nightmare
18.09.2022 - 09:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Mirco Perrozzi gives a cynical laugh when asked if he's thought about putting his prices up to cope with rocketing energy costs. "If I did that I might as well close down tomorrow," he says.
The 55-year-old took over Rosylee, a tiny cafe with space for around a dozen customers, in Radcliffe town centre six months ago. Incredibly in that short space of time his electric bill has soared from just over £200 a month to more than £700.
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"I took over this business to try for a better life, but really it's made it worse," says Mirco, an Italian, who's spent much of the last 30 years working in restaurants around Greater Manchester and the north west. "I'm in debt, I'm behind on the bills. I'm under pressure, I'm anxious all the time. I don't want to get out of bed in the morning."
Mirco says he's having to take part-time restaurant work at night, just to feed his family. But he fears even that won't be enough to make ends meet.
"£200 would be a brilliant day's takings at the minute, but even that is not enough to pay the bills. Radcliffe is a dead town. There's no one about.
"There's no middle class any more. There's rich people and poor people and the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
"I'm poor. I do nothing. I drive a s*** car. It's very, very difficult. I can't carry on this way."
Across the town centre Beth Walling, 49, runs Beth's Cafe on Blackburn Street. A lot of her customers are elderly, and quite a few have told her they won't be coming in any more as even the price of a cup of a tea and bacon butty has become unaffordable.
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