The current economic climate has take its toll on another of Nottinghamshire's small businesses. Big Mike's Artisan Cheesecake Shop in Carlton will be closing for good on Christmas Eve.
The shop opened on Carlton Hill in November 2020. It was an instant hit, selling out of the mouth-watering goodies every day during the first week. Mike Jones and his partner Jess Graham went on to open a second shop in Beeston in November 2021 but that closed in June this year.
He began making the decadent cheesecakes during lockdown, while furloughed from his job at an Audi garage during the pandemic. Selling them online, he shifted more than 500 within three months, prompting him to quit his job to make cheesecakes his full-time livelihood.
