People power wins!!
Benugo has ‘stepped aside’ from the contract to run the three Hampstead family run cafés.
‘We’ve listened, and are responding in the way we think is best for all’, said founder Ben Warner. I wonder if the threat from the 25,000 petition signatories to boycott the Benugo run cafés should they get the contracts might just have influenced their decision….
So the Corporation will be starting again with the tendering process and we hope that this time it they will do a more acceptable job of it! As Keir Starmer tweeted this afternoon:
“Just spoken to CE of @cityoflondon – Hampstead Heath Cafe tender halted and will be rerun! Local voices heard and listened to: fab news!
Read more at London 24.