Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Veronica de Oliveira: Black Orchid Collective Cafe Owner on Tauranga City Council raising the fees for alfresco dining

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Veronica de Oliveira: Black Orchid Collective Cafe Owner on Tauranga City Council raising the fees for alfresco dining · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Nationwide Alfresco fiasco. Queenstown now the latest city to be
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  Speaker 1: hit by this issue. Hospitality business, the hotels are in
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  Speaker 1: z that their outdoor dining fees are going up fifteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. One business used to pay an annual cost
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  Speaker 1: of three thousand dollars to the council. That's now going
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  Speaker 1: to go up to more than fifty thousand dollars. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: they're charging a percentage of the indoor rent. Totong has
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  Speaker 1: been having issues and Veronica di Olivera is the Black
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  Speaker 1: Orchid Collective cafe owner and she's with me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thanks Veronica. How much are
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  Speaker 1: you paying where you are?
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm not paying yet, but it would probably
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  Speaker 2: be paying over one thousand dollars for like little three
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  Speaker 2: tables they have in front of my business at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just quite a beat just for their space
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  Speaker 2: I'm using.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, and this is because at the moment you're paying,
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  Speaker 1: I think because you haven't needed a license they're introducing.
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  Speaker 1: The licenses end up coming with a fee exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So they have decided last July all the business downtown
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  Speaker 2: a Mount will have to pay feats out. So it's
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  Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty dollars staty square meter, but's
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  Speaker 2: a five hundred dollars administration feeds. I'm not very sure
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  Speaker 2: what is it about. But yeah, so for the space
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  Speaker 2: that I have now, I would be saying at least
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  Speaker 2: like five square meters.
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  Speaker 1: Right, can you describe the space for us? Is it
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  Speaker 1: on the footpath or.
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  Speaker 2: It's on the footpaths? Yeah? Yeah, you off my cafe.
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  Speaker 1: Do your tables block the footpath or anyone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're disabled or the elderly or.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely not. It's actually like rules frame, so all
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  Speaker 2: the business amount or probably in New Zealand have to
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  Speaker 2: follow all the rules. Like it's like I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how many meters, but that is a space that you
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  Speaker 2: need to leave for the people to pass. So I
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  Speaker 2: understand the fact that they want to control a little
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  Speaker 2: bit because the summer time is quite busy and you
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  Speaker 2: cut really pass. But it's the only time of the
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  Speaker 2: year that we actually is very busy. That's the time
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  Speaker 2: that we actually make money. You know, the city is busy.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like the style of the mount is the
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  Speaker 2: soul of the mount, and this what's happening now. I
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  Speaker 2: believe a lot of people will rebel against and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to lose a few of these little tables outside
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  Speaker 2: and we'll just you know, make the city quieter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice to have people outside and it does
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  Speaker 1: make the city look busy. As you say, Veronica, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. Veronica de Olivera. She's
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  Speaker 1: the Black Awkward Collective Cafe and toto Ona and she's
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  Speaker 1: going to be paying one thousand dollars a year for
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  Speaker 1: three tables on the footpath. For more Familier Edition with
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