A top TV chef says his Michelin star restaurant has made a profit of just £320 in the first quarter of 2023. Great British Menu chef Aktar Islam runs Opheem, one of five Michelin Star restaurants in Birmingham.
It charges £50 for two courses and £125 for its ten course tasting menu, but Aktar says high taxation is 'squeezing the industry to breaking point'.
Aktar told BirminghamLive that he wants to speak out on the matter in the hope of driving change for the hospitality sector, describing the situation businesses are facing as 'desperate'. He said that other high profile chefs are 'weeks away' from closure due to the Government taking what Aktar describes as a 'huge slice of the pie' from their enterprises in tax.
