James explained that he has no income, they’ve closed the restaurant and battened down the hatches - they are cooking meals ‘as a charitable cause’ and they are continuing to support their suppliers by ordering ingredients from them.
“We are not doing it to make money,” said James. “I think it’s only right that we are doing something to help.”
James and his family are producing old-school favourites like sticky toffee pudding, rice pudding, banana bread, lasagne and fish pie.
James said: “We’re making proper, well-balanced meals because that is what they need.
“It must be so traumatic, the least we can do is cook them a little bit of food.”
He added: “What’s important is we can all rebuild and start again, not that we want to get to that point, but there are people out there having to work their socks off at the moment and all we are being asked to do is stay at home.
“As any chef will tell you we work 14 to 16 hours a day and we can do an awful lot of good in those 14 to 16 hours, so the more of us who get on the band wagon the better.”
If you would like to get involved in this lunch please call Lyndsay Hall on 07395790028 or email [email protected]
