OWNERS of a steakhouse chain with restaurants in York and North Yorkshire have asked furloughed staff to lend the business money to help it survive. Tomahawk Steakhouse, which opened a branch off St Helen s Square in York last year, told The Press that all employees had backed a voluntary loan agreement to help cover the employers National Insurance and pension contributions. The chain has defended its actions after the GMB Union condemned the situation as an outrageous abuse of the furlough scheme which would hit struggling low-paid waiters, pot-washers and cooks. But the company said in a statement that staff had backed the move.
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Restaurant staff at the Tomahawk Steakhouse chain have been asked to lend the business a tenth of their wages in order to help it through the latest lockdown.
The chain, which operates 12 venues in Yorkshire, the north-east of England and London, wants furloughed staff to pay for their own monthly national insurance and pension payments by way of a “voluntary loan” to the company to help it plug a cashflow crunch.
“The company has a short-term cashflow issue and it now requires your help and support,” the restaurant told its 500 staff in a loan agreement letter. “We need to get reopened after the end of this lockdown.”
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In August last year the northern-based business opened a restaurant in York, which it followed up with a
“It could look a bit crazy, but we see opportunities within the marketplace,” said Howard Eggleston, Tomahawk co-founder, speaking at last month s Restaurant Conference.
“Timing wise it is horrific, trying to do this in lockdown was a crazy stunt but we are not funded by banks so we don’t have the pressure and we can make those decisions, which could look irrational to anybody on the outside. We take the opportunity and try and crack on.”
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The team behind Tomahawk Steakhouse have opened a Jesmond chicken shop selling parmos, shawarma, beer can chicken and Sunday âroostsâ.