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The Chocolate Brown café has been put into liquidation and was due to close at 3pm on Easter Monday, April 10.
“We are so terribly sorry that it has come to this for our staff; for all of us,” owners Susan and Des Vize said.
“We are so very grateful to all of the lovely customers who have supported us, from kindies to schools, from business folk to charities, from Lions and retirees, to Mums, grandparents and visitors.
“Their patronage and kind supportive words in difficult times have been humbling and restorative.”
The closure does not affect the Chocolate Shop, which remains open. The sale of that part of the business was being negotiated with an announcement expected soon.
Chocolate Brown, the business that owned the Warkworth café and award-winning chocolaterie, and the now-closed Bayside Restaurant at Snells Beach, was placed in voluntary administration last December.
At the time, Susan said multiple covid lockdowns and mandate rules had worn the business down to the point where she could no longer borrow money to keep the enterprise afloat.
