The chef who cooked for the Queen has opened a “warm bank” of rooms above the bakery for locals facing fuel shortages.
He winced when the cost-of-living crisis threatened to shut down his business.
Redcar-born Ed Treuhit has made space available at his Brickyard Bakery in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, from Saturday.
He had been plagued by radio reports the day before that his family was having trouble heating their house this Christmas.
His career as a multi-award winning gourmet chef has seen him cook at five star hotels including The Ritz Club in London.
He also worked with internationally renowned chef John King and was a member of the team that won the Gold Medal for Best Regional Team at the 1988 Culinary Olympics.
However, Ed has given up on the fine dining game and closed a chain of seven restaurants to make it “affordable for everyone” and opened a bakery instead.
he says the following: The ‘Warm Bank’ about the bakery was just announced on Facebook and has already generated a lot of interest.
“Many people in the city are concerned about the impact of energy prices, one thing we have as a bakery is the heat from our bread ovens, which are always on.
It rises through the floorboards and warms the rooms above. We have always tried to help our community, which is why we are already using the second floor as a cooking school.
“Now we have at our disposal chairs, board games, newspapers and books.
“After hearing stories about how people are affected by the cost of living crisis and coming up with the idea on Saturday, the team really worked together to prepare.
“I just want to get the information out to as many people as possible, and to the right people, who can come in and use it to keep warm when they need it.”
Ed added that his proposal “won’t change the world,” but he hoped it would “take some pressure off people in the area.”
The energy bill cap was raised to £3,549 in October and is expected to rise to £6,000 next year.
Ed, 55, said the bakery has always gone out of its way to help the community and has provided free school meals to local children in the style of Marcus Rashford.
He added: “We’ve been offering free lunches for a while now. It’s just another small way to help our community.”
Over the weekend, Ed promoted his cozy bank room on Facebook with the following message.me From September, every weekday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Welcome everyone.
But he fears that if he can’t afford to keep the bakery running, he won’t be able to use the room much longer.
Ed adds:
“We’re in a lot of pain and I don’t think we can sustain it if things get worse.” We’re just doing what we can right now to help our community.
Furious that the government isn’t doing enough to help struggling families and businesses, Eddie says Britain is becoming a hotbed of two hot spots: the rich and the poor.
he said: People need to wake up to the fact that rich minorities are getting richer and richer and the rest of us don’t care about ourselves and leave us to fend for ourselves.
“The main street is valued, but it is said that the big businesses there do not pay taxes. I do not care who I compete with, and I would compete with anyone, in the same conditions.”
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Source: Metro
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