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22

Dec 2023

Last Updated: 22/12/2023
Business
Business

Ripon coffee shop Messy Buns closes

by Flora Grafton

| 22 Dec, 2023
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Messy Buns, on Duck Hill in Ripon, closed its doors on Tuesday.

The café, which opened in 2017, served cakes, coffee and sweet treats.

Owner Lydia Peters posted a tearful video on Facebook to announce the news yesterday.

She said her electricity bill tripled at the start of 2023 and, with the increasing cost of food and ingredients, the business was no longer viable to run.

“I can’t just keep getting more and more into debt because that’s where I am now.
“The reality is they [supplier] are probably going to cut my electricity off any day now.”


Ms Peters told the Stray Ferret “less and less people” came into the café every week, but hopes her video would make people realise “how hard it is to run a business”.




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However, she urged people to continue supporting other Ripon businesses:

“I feel lucky to have lasted as long as we have because you see incredible businesses close.
"Please keep supporting business owners in Ripon, because otherwise they’ll go.”


Ms Peters will continue to offer cake-making and catering services despite the closing the café. She told the Stray Ferret:

“I feel quite overwhelmed but I just want to say thank you to everyone that has supported my for the last seven years.”