A popular bar and burger joint in melbourne’s inner city has had to shut down as post-Covid woes continue to bite the hospitality industry.
On Thursday, The Beer & Burger Bar Pty Ltd, based in Cremorne three kilometres from the city’s CBD, went into liquidation.
Mathew Gollant of insolvency firm CJG Advisory was appointed as the liquidator.
The restaurant owes around half a million dollars to creditors and several staff members are also understood to have lost their jobs.
It had ceased operating since December. Six weeks ago, one customer lamented online “Wtf happened with the best burger of Melbourne???”
The Beer & Burger Bar had a following of 8000 on Instagram and worked with delivery services including UberEats and Mr Yum. It is now listed as permanently closed on Google.
Staff shortages and the cost of living crisis were behind the restaurant’s failure to turn a profit.
The liquidator, Mr Gollant, told news.com.au that The Beer & Burger Bar owes somewhere in the ballpark of $500,000 to around 10 creditors, including the Australian Taxation Office.
Several staff including one of the company’s directors are also owed some entitlements from work in the last days and weeks of the restaurant operating.
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