“Flour is up. Butter is up. Oil is up. Fuckin oxygen is up.”
It went on to say that it was also intent on continuing to pay its staff more than the government’s national minimum wage, which currently sits at just £9.50 per hour. “We have some self-imposed red lines too,” it said. “We want to make sure our staff can afford to live. If not, who the f**k’s gonna bake the bread in your breadbin.”
Dusty Knuckle doubles as a social enterprise, offering training programmes for young Londoners “in and around the justice system — helping them improve their legitimate work readiness through carefully designed real-world training programmes.” Those costs money, they said. “We do not want our trainee numbers to shrink.”
Referring to the COVID-19 crisis, the bakery said it had “survived a lot of bumps in this long old road ... Cold hard reality is that we’re facing around £13,000 / month worth of additional costs for us to run exactly the same business, pound for pound.” “We wanted to just present you the maths in the hope that we won’t get feedback like “‘£10.50 for a fackin sandwich!’”Check your inbox for a welcome email.By submitting your email, you agree to our
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