Collins Street cafe Pope Joan closed this week after trying to find a buyer and going through business restructuring to pay creditors owed more than $900,000.
Since the onset of the pandemic and changed office working conditions, trade at the cafe, which opened in 2019, has fallen by nearly 80 per cent.
The city is proving to be such a tremendous challenge, says co-owner David Mackintosh. Daytime cafe business feels permanently different in the city now.
Pope Joans largest debt was to the Australian Tax Office for nearly $600,000 of unpaid taxes. Mackintosh and his partners have paid staff outstanding superannuation from their own funds.
The restructuring will return nea…
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