A Liverpool cooking school owner has questioned how she and fellow business owners are “supposed to live” with noise coming from the new Hooters venue next door.
Earlier this month, Paola Paulucci, owner of Flour Will Fly in Oriel Chambers off Water Street, said she may be forced to relocate her business as a result of noise coming from an extractor at the back of New Zealand House where the controversial US chain opened its second UK branch this week. The family-owned cooking school took to Instagram this week to say it would not show any support for the neighbouring restaurant chain.
Now, Paola has taken to Twitter to share a video of the fan and her frustration at the noise. In the short clip, She said: “I don’t understand how we’re supposed to live with this, how is that okay? How? I don’t understand. We have people here, businesses, how?”
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Last week, Paola said she was having to consider moving her business from Oriel Chambers as a result of the noise and that they felt “unheard by Hooters”. Ms Paulucci said it would be “financially detrimental” for the business to have to relocate as well as an emotional wrench, given she had built the brand with her family and late fiance Andy Corkhill, who died last year of cancer.
Rachael Moss, Hooters’ managing director, said the business had done nothing wrong. She told the ECHO last week: “The equipment is legally allowed to be there, we didn’t install it.
“It’s been there since 2015 and is a lawful, highly regulated piece of equipment. Because Oriel Chambers is a listed building, they have very thin windows.
“We have extremely high standards as a global brand and I had my architect go round to inspect during our initial processes.” The video posted by Ms Paulucci is the latest issue to hit Hooters in the last few days.
It was reported earlier this week that the business has been ordered to remove signs it has put up without consent at its new premises. Liverpool Council has written to the chain regarding large neon signs which have been put up on the side of New Zealand House.
A complaint was made by city centre councillor Nick Small, who alleged that the signs had been put up without the appropriate planning permission from the local authority, which it subsequently confirmed. A spokesperson confirmed that Hooters had applied for the permission but that it was rejected.
The signs were then put up anyway.
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