The Střecha social bistro is moving from Žižkov to the center of Prague
“We simply want to open up a full-fledged professional vegan restaurant, where you don’t leave a fortune for good food and drink, where people push to the margins of society and get a decent job, and where we will decide on the measurement of the company together, “ explain the three original founders in the Hithit campaign.
Bistro Střecha was created four years ago on a cooperative basis. “At the time, we imagined it as Hurvínek’s war, but hard work did not discourage us and the bistro began to move,” they recall. It really started in 2019.
Coronavirus crisis
Company in Žižkov operated for four years. Only On January 15, 2022, they left the space to new tenants. “The whole pandemic was difficult, we all lived from paycheck to paycheck, the bistro ended up at zero every week at best and the shifts lasted from morning to evening six days a week,” says one of the founders, Filip Hausknecht. The most difficult situation allegedly occurred before last Christmas with the prospect of a half-year lockdown and a covid running among the employees.
When they thought they were out of the worst, the numbers of those infected began to rise dramatically again. “In short, we would not be able to cope with another wave of covid and lockdown without further damage to mental health.” supplied by Filip Hausknecht. However, we decided not to throw a shotgun into the rye and open a new larger plant. They needed money for that.
New establishment, old customs
The team bet on a crowdfunding campaign on the Hithit website. In the first 24 hours, they managed to select 75,000 from the target half a million. At the end of the campaign, which lasted 45 days, they even landed 109,000 more than they needed out of the required 500,000 crowns. The money used to reconstruction of new premises. At the new address Křemencova 7 between Národní třída and Myslíková, the Střecha bistro will be for at least ten years according to the lease agreement.
“We can’t even call ourselves a bistro anymore, it will be a proper inn with everything. A large bar with four different beers at the bar, excellent coffee, a selection of cocktails and, in short, everything that a good bar must not miss, ”rejoices Filip. Kitchen will be four times larger, the offer more extensive AND concept the same. Filip estimates that from the beginning there will be 15 jobs, which will expand over time thanks to catering services or the production of domestic products.
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