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Expansion
Just The Right Job For Italian Siblings |
One of the
oldest established Italian family businesses in Newcastle is to
expand its operations with a £250,000 investment in a new
café. The De Giorgi family runs The Gusto Group, operators of
Paradiso, Popolo, Intermezzo and Secco on Pilgrim Street in
Newcastle. Now the family is set to expand its Secco outlet,
currently a first floor bar and second floor restaurant, to take in
the building's ground floor too.
The three De
Giorgi siblings, Joseph, Cristina and Aldo, are marking the 50th
anniversary in Newcastle this year, and are investing substantially
in completing the Secco venue they opened in October 2004. Cristina
said: "We rent out the premises next door to Secco to a printing
firm, but in October, we are getting that space back, so we can
extend Secco on the ground floor. "At the moment there is a
first floor bar, and a second floor restaurant - but now we will have
a ground floor restaurant and a first floor café, open seven
days a week, and then the second floor restaurant as before. The
restaurant is fantastic but small and now the café will have a
southern Italian offering on a relaxed, informal basis."
Cristina added that the common strand through all the premises is
that they will use organic, local produce wherever possible.
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