Is this Australia's most optimistic restaurant owner?

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Despite hospitality venues carrying big losses following the COVID-19 lockdowns, Aykut Sayan is taking a chance and expanding his Turkish restaurants. 'People want to spend money and they want to go out and enjoy themselves.'

Aykut Sayan may well be Australia’s most optimistic restaurant owner. The 52-year-old is delighted to welcome patrons back to his café Circa Espresso in Sydney’s west as restrictions ease.

“In the last few months we've opened two venues in Sydney and in the coming months, we'll be opening two more venues,” he says.“I feel super-confident. I think the future is really bright in this industry. And I'm willing to risk whatever's necessary to fulfill my own set of dreams,” he says.Aykut has taken 15-year leases on several properties in Parramatta, as well as in Sydney’s east and north. He says this is a good time to ask for lower commercial rents.

Aykut is a qualified engineer who arrived in Australia in 1976 as a seven-year-old. His cafe menu is inspired by memories of growing up in the small town of Mezre Turkey’s east.Aykut Sayan at his Sydney cafe.“A lot of [my influences relate to] coming home from school and spending time with mum in the kitchen while she was cooking,” he says.

The cancellation of many events since July has cost her Sydney-based catering business, Racha's Syrian Kitchen. "Also, I used to go to Middle Eastern restaurants in Australia and all I was seeing barbecue food, but it was not authentic. So I wanted to introduce our food to people," she says. The 36-year-old migrated from Manila in the Philippines as a child in 1997, and holds a degree in social science. In 2016, she graduated with a masters degree in human rights and democratisation.Supplied Marjorie Tenchavez.

 

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