By Zak Wheeler For Every day Mail Australia
10:15 05 Jul 2024, up to date 10:37 05 Jul 2024
A star chef’s hospitality empire has crumbled following the collapse of his eighth venue within the area of simply six weeks.
Directors had been known as in to take over award-winning chef Shannon Kellam’s French restaurant Montrachet, in Brisbane‘s Bowen Hills, on Friday.
On the finish of Could, Mr Kellam’s hospitality firm, BCN Occasions Group, entered voluntary liquidation leading to seven of his venues shutting up store and 90 workers sacked.
Mark Holland, Jamie Harris and Anthony Connelly of McGrathNicol have been appointed as directors of Cuisinier Australis Pty Ltd which traded as Montrachet.
The restaurant will nonetheless commerce as regular with directors urging any patrons to contact them.
Montrachet first welcomed clients again in 2004 and was purchased by Mr Kellam and his spouse in 2015.
‘It’s with a heavy coronary heart, that I remorse to advise that we have now made the very tough choice to position the enterprise into administration,’ he stated in a press release.
‘We’re very grateful for the continued assist offered by our clientele, workers and suppliers over the previous 20 years.’
Mr Kellam’s restaurant has gained numerous awards together with greatest French restaurant in Australia on a number of events in addition to two chef’s hats.
He’d instructed the Courier Mail final month his enterprise’ insurance coverage had greater than doubled to $22,000, and fuel and energy payments had additionally skyrocketed.
When his enterprise BCN Occasions Group entered liquidation, his venues the Lumiere Culinary Studio in Newstead, Mica Brasserie in Newstead and the favored King Road Bakery in Bowen Hills all closed.
It is understood 90 workers members throughout all seven venues have been terminated.
Mr Holland, Mr Harris and Mr Connelly additionally dealt with these liquidations.
‘We intend to work with workers, clients and suppliers throughout this tough time,’ Mr Holland stated in a press release.
‘At this preliminary stage, BCN Occasions seems to be a casualty of the headwinds dealing with the hospitality trade.
‘Within the meantime, we remorse to advise there might be a disruption to the group’s ongoing operations and well-known Mica (Newstead and CBD) and King Road Bakery institutions will stay closed.
‘We’re at present enterprise an pressing appraisal to think about choices out there.’
A separate Mica cafe continues to be working within the Brisbane airport and doesn’t seem like concerned within the closings.
It is understood BCN Occasions Group suffered a $150,000 loss when floods left their companies with none energy in February, 2022.
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