‘Who buys a retail brand during Covid?’ The man who revived salad chain Tossed

Neil Sebba: ‘I was walking round the city looking for new stores with not a single person around. It was like 28 Day Later.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

Neil Sebba, the managing director of healthy eating chain Tossed, does not take long when asked if he is a risk-taker.

“Yes: who buys a brand in Covid in a market that is completely dead?” he says, reflecting on the decision he and co-owner Angelina Harrisson took to buy the business out of administration in September 2020.