Beyonce donates £8,000 to struggling Nigerian restaurant
By Nimot Sulaimon
Pop queen, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, has donated £8,000 to Nigerian tapas restaurant, Chuku’s, in Tottenham as portion of her $1m pledge to increase companies around the arena.
Chuku’s, founded by the brother-and-sister duo Ifeyinwa and Emeka Frederick, modified into portion of the 2%, one in all the ten companies that gained the grant.
At some stage in her Renaissance world tour, the American singer dedicated to donate $1 million (£806,000) to companies by her charity, BeyGood Foundation.
Reacting to the advance, Ifeyinwa one in all the co-founders acknowledged: “I peaceable can’t rather take into accout that Beyoncé has backed our restaurant — it feels a exiguous surreal.
“We’d already felt her impression when she modified into in city and concertgoers chose Chuku’s for his or her pre-gig meal, but that is a full other level.”
After launching a problem to to find 600 bookings in six weeks, the restaurant managed 801, and Emeka acknowledged Beyoncé’s assist is one other important-needed enhance.
He added, “This grant couldn’t be extra welcome. Chuku’s, like other ingesting places that don’t enjoy a monetary reserve, has been battered by lockdowns and the associated price of dwelling crisis.
“Each day, we’re combating to end begin to compose it to our fourth birthday. This cash will compose that fight a exiguous more straightforward and allow us to proceed celebrating Nigerian culture on Tottenham’s High Avenue in the in the intervening time.”
