Help Set Up Our Cafe!
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Hi friends.
We'll start setting up the new cafe from June 2. We still need help with donations please, if you can spare anything it is greatly appreciated.
Our story ...
In June 2018 Min and I bought a small cafe in Brisbane, which rents a shop in a shopping center. Has Beans Cafe In just 10 months we have transformed a tired cafe into a thriving popular small business, working 7 days per week.
We love our cafe, our customers and community, and the lifestyle. We have also been customers at the cafe for 9 years.
But a dispute in March 2019 with our landlord over our lease renewal has resulted in the landlord refusing to renew our lease, and further denying us the ability to sell our business to recover purchase and other costs ... most likely because I spoke out against certain safety, hygiene and mismanagement issues in the center.
Our lease expires in mid July 2019. After fighting the landlord legally for 6 weeks, it is now confirmed we cannot win without further expensive legal costs, which we don't have, and choose not to waste on lawyers. The dispute has negatively impacted our health and business in many ways, especially worsening my chronic fatigue.
We are seeking community funding to help recover from costs already incurred, loss already suffered, and to assist with relocating our cafe to avoid complete loss of the business. If we just walk away, without relocating locally, to save at least some goodwill, we stand to lose around $100,000.
At almost 50 years old, with a chronic illness, we cannot recover from such a financial loss ... so, we are appealing to our community.
It is very hard for us to appeal for help in this way, as we have never asked for public money for anything personal before. We greatly appreciate any donation you can make to help us recover and relocate, to create an even more amazing business and community.
If you do not wish to use GoFundMe, please contact us for other options to donate.
Massive thanks and BIG LOVE, Dean and Min ❤
We'll start setting up the new cafe from June 2. We still need help with donations please, if you can spare anything it is greatly appreciated.
Our story ...
In June 2018 Min and I bought a small cafe in Brisbane, which rents a shop in a shopping center. Has Beans Cafe In just 10 months we have transformed a tired cafe into a thriving popular small business, working 7 days per week.
We love our cafe, our customers and community, and the lifestyle. We have also been customers at the cafe for 9 years.
But a dispute in March 2019 with our landlord over our lease renewal has resulted in the landlord refusing to renew our lease, and further denying us the ability to sell our business to recover purchase and other costs ... most likely because I spoke out against certain safety, hygiene and mismanagement issues in the center.
Our lease expires in mid July 2019. After fighting the landlord legally for 6 weeks, it is now confirmed we cannot win without further expensive legal costs, which we don't have, and choose not to waste on lawyers. The dispute has negatively impacted our health and business in many ways, especially worsening my chronic fatigue.
We are seeking community funding to help recover from costs already incurred, loss already suffered, and to assist with relocating our cafe to avoid complete loss of the business. If we just walk away, without relocating locally, to save at least some goodwill, we stand to lose around $100,000.
At almost 50 years old, with a chronic illness, we cannot recover from such a financial loss ... so, we are appealing to our community.
It is very hard for us to appeal for help in this way, as we have never asked for public money for anything personal before. We greatly appreciate any donation you can make to help us recover and relocate, to create an even more amazing business and community.
If you do not wish to use GoFundMe, please contact us for other options to donate.
Massive thanks and BIG LOVE, Dean and Min ❤
Organizer
Dean Bleasdale
Organizer
Camp Hill, QLD