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Chicken Town agaaaaain
Chicken Town gets another puff piece, this time in the Guardian.
Nice idea, maybe, though I do want to visit the chicken farm to ask the birds what they think.
But it has no place in the frontage of Edwardian buildings on Tottenham Green.
How nice to get £300k in loans and grants from my Council Tax, and get all these advertorials (almost) to make sure its full of the right sort of people in the evenings to subsidise the slightly-less-fatloaded children's lunch menu.
I can think of other Old Fire Stations that become Arts Centres, or Community Centres, or nurseries. Fried-meat centres? Hmmm.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Harding on
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5 pages of posts. 1 person talking about the food.
Carter and Stanton - can you two go on a lunch date and tell us what the food is actually like?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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ABOUT eighteen months before CT, the Telegraph wrote in alarm, Why this 'Shoreditchifcation' of London must stop. The warning wasn't heeded in all quarters. There's prescient comment there.
Another page of recognition I found was Buzzfeed's The 21 Types of Hipster You Encounter in London.
And here, h'images of Hoxton Hipsters. Perhaps I'm just old fashioned …
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Clive! What's the chicken like!!
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Paul my opinion of the taste is irrelevant. Besides, I'm too old to try the junior specials and don't enjoy a Hipster income sufficient to try the full-priced evening fare. There are (mixed) reviews elsewhere.
The reason why this establishment – unlike other startups – is the subject of comment, is due to the huge slug of public funds (£300,000) that have gone into it. As a serving Councillor, it is that and its viability that are of concern to me, not the taste of the meals. For the sake of (£210,000) loan repayment, I hope that the chicken tastes alright. However, that is a tiny factor in the overall scheme of things.
In the long run, it will not matter how good a CT meal may taste: other factors are far more important. My impression is that it's a minority of start-up restaurants that are still running after a couple of years.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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An article attacking gentrification by Alex Proud!!!!!! Now there's irony!
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Chicken Town, again.
Yesterday, another article in at least the online Standard.
A Standard headline on 21 March, claimed that CT was Britain's healthiest chicken shop.
Yesterday's headline claims that, Chicken Town leads the way in tackling this city's social problems.
Believe that if you wish.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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"It’s an inspired model, because it means that the social mission can be sustainably funded, instead of relying on unpredictable annual grants. " Bad journalism. Others have commented already.
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NEXT month I almost expect the headline, Europe's healthiest chicken shop leads the way in tackling Britain's social ills.
The notion that a fried chicken restaurant can lead the way in tackling Tottenham's social problems,—let alone London's—is fanciful.
It's misguided PR. They shouldn't do this as, apart from anything else, the incredible claims suggest desperation. If CT succeeds, it would do so by word-of-mouth.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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What happens about the loan if Chicken Town folds ?
Who is the guarantor ?
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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What makes you think there's a guarantor?
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John, my understanding is that the Council,
have agreed the loan terms at 5% and repayments based upon thresholds reached in profits. So, no repayments until £50,000 distributable profits after tax are achieved in any year and then repayments are made of 25% of remaining distributable profits after tax.
These are easy terms, colloquially known as a 'soft' loan, i.e. not on commercial terms.
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