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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"Since then, we’ve called up every empty spot in D1, D2 and our local beloved Dublin 8, to be heartbroken again by crazy prices, crazy terms and landlords somehow wanting to dictate our hours, kitchen setup, decor(??) etc.
"Or else charging insane turn-key money to have the privilege of paying them huge rent for premises that still need work to meet our needs."
"In a post on Instagram, they added: "We feel like we’re too young, too free and too happy to put ourselves into a situation that could end up costing us everything we’ve built and achieved together, personally and professionally, so for now, we are halting our plans for a permanent location."
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