Rishi has a praised a new Northallerton business committed to working with other local businesses.
Bean + Bake coffee shop opened in Town Hall Buildings in the summer and has a policy of selling local produce wherever possible.
Rishi called in to meet owner Steve Hewitt and hear how the new enterprise helps to support other local businesses.
The shop occupies a small unit in the corner of Northallerton Town Hall and sells a range of baked goods, sandwiches, coffee and ice cream. There is a small seating area in the shop and outside on the Town Hall Square.
Suppliers based in North Yorkshire, Teesside and Darlington include Sorcha’s Artisan Bakehouse, LB Quality Grocers, Acorn Dairy, Rounton Coffee, Thompsons Butchers and Yorvale Ice Cream.
Rishi said: “Small businesses like this really drive our local economy, especially when they support other local business. More of our money circulating in our small enterprises is good for all of us.
“It is also great to see another business coming to our High Street, helping to keep it a vibrant, attractive shopping destination.”
Mr Hewitt, who has extensive experience of running hospitality concerns in North Yorkshire, including the Joiner’s Shop café at nearby Ingleby Cross, said it was good to welcome his local MP to Bean + Bake.
He added: “Shopping locally makes sense, I believe, for customers and businesses. I want to make sure that every penny spent in my business helps to support other businesses – like the butchers who supplies the bacon and sausages and the fruit and vegetable market stall holders who are just yards from my business.”
Bean + Bake is open 9am-4pm. Closed Tuesday and Sunday.
