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Aakanksha Surve

Popular Dublin food truck halts permanent location plans due to 'enormous costs'

The owners of a popular Dublin food pop-up, Bahay, have announced they're pulling out of their permanent location due to the "enormous costs".

The much-loved Filipino pop-up announced its plans for its first-ever permanent spot in Blanchardstown in September. Sadly, it has been forced to abandon the venture and give up its search for a new location.

Owners, Richie Castillo and Alex O’Neill, said: "Staffing issues were a huge problem, but also rising enormous costs (which we’re not entitled to any government support due to being a new business), terms changing and us getting an overwhelming feeling of doom in the pits of our stomach, we decided a few weeks ago to pull Bahay Blanch.

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