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Felix, you've got breaking news from
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Spaghetti House. I have. Yes, so
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Spaghetti House, which is the oldest
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Italian family-owned restaurant in
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London. Uh, that's quite an interesting
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claim to fame. That is. They have shut
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all their branches in London, which is a
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great shame. But, when I was looking
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through this story, I came across
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something I didn't know before, which is
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the Spaghetti House siege, uh, which was
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in 1975 when three armed robbers,
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um, stormed one of the branches and took
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their all of their staff hostage for six
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>> about to say what did they survive on,
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and then I remember. Maybe
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Well, they demanded that week's takings
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at the restaurant, which was 11 grand at
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the time, which is around 90 grand now,
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which isn't too bad. Uh, but Says
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says seasoned robber Felix.
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>> That's not a bad score that, actually.
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>> for that one, yeah. I would have been
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scooping up meatballs into
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>> That's extraordinary. So, so how long
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have they been open for at the point
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where they were they were sieged? They
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must have had a decent reputation to be
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a worthy of of I suppose taking hostage
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for six days. Yeah, so it'd been open
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for 20 years at that point.
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Um, and, you know, I understand it was a
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it was a very celebrated kind of
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well-loved restaurant. So, it survived
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the siege, but not current macroeconomic
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headwinds. Quite. So,
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what what's what's the reasons given?
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Business rates or It hasn't given any
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reason yet. Um, the closure was
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announced with um, a statement on its
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website this morning. Yeah, BHS
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shut many of its stores recently blaming
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business rates and changes to employment
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taxes at um, previous budgets. So, that
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could be the same story here.
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>> Well, Felix is back with all the good
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news again today. I was going to say we
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we we very much we very much brought you
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in here on the basis you're going to say
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something funny about LEGO, and then you
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say, "Well, LEGO's got no products, and
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they're all it's all fake." And then In
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my mind, the Spaghetti House was quite a
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nice and fine establishment. And then
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it's just shut down. It was a nice
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place. Well, our our our sympathies with
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everyone at Spaghetti House, cuz that
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that sounds like the sad end of a great
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institution. Indeed. But Felix, thank
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you very much for joining us. Thank you.
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I'll have a good news story next time.
