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‘My focus is survival’: how rising costs are hitting independent restaurants

Expensive ingredients on top of pay, rent, rates and energy bills force north London laksa bar and cafe to put up prices

“It has been one thing after another since Covid,” says Mandy Yin as she looks over the accounts for her small north London independent restaurant.

It’s just before lunchtime on a Friday and Sambal Shiok’s chef is busy chopping ingredients for chicken and prawn laksa, the signature dish at the eatery on Holloway Road, a busy thoroughfare not far from Arsenal’s Emirates stadium.

Fuluke Barca, the head chef at Sambal Shiok, prepares the kitchen and the ingredients for the day’s business; the prawns and chicken for the laksa; the rice noodles are cooked for the vegan laksa.

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[The Guardian] ‘My focus is survival’: how rising costs are hitting independent restaurants

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