Nottingham's Filthy Vegan has closed its doors at East Midlands Designer Outlet after six months. The food outlet, famed for its vegan kebab, stood alongside global companies such as Burger King, Subway, Harry Ramsden's and Five Guys and was the first standalone vegan store in any major shopping centre in the UK.
The initial contract was for six months with the option to extend at the shopping outlet over the Derbyshire border in South Normanton. Howeve, the duo behind the Filthy Vegan, which started out as a small enterprise in a home kitchen, said it wasn't viable to stay.
In a joint statement Joe Johnson and James Freeman said: "It’s with a little sadness we want to announce that the outlet will close from February 12. With the economy the way it is, huge costs and being a small business, the risk to stay open is too great and it doesn’t fall quite in line with our business plan moving forwards.
