For years Cafe Olive served breakfasts and sandwiches but the pandemic killed off trade. Most customers at the traditional cafe in West Bridgford were office workers or sports fans from the cricket and football grounds.
But with neither for the majority of 2020 and a chunk of 2021 it spelt the end for Saied Omoomian's livelihood of the last 16 years and the cafe shut at the end of last year. Rather than walk away completely, he passed over the reins to his son Javid, 33, who has opened a cosy pizzeria at the site, Baba Dough.
Javid said: "He tried opening afterwards for a couple of months but his main business here was the office workers apart from cricket and football but that was off as well for that period. The offices were all closed so the business was finished. He'd been here a long time."
