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Speaker 1: Nationwide Alfresco fiasco. Queenstown now the latest city to be

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Speaker 1: hit by this issue. Hospitality business, the hotels are in

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Speaker 1: z that their outdoor dining fees are going up fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. One business used to pay an annual cost

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Speaker 1: of three thousand dollars to the council. That's now going

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Speaker 1: to go up to more than fifty thousand dollars. Apparently

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Speaker 1: they're charging a percentage of the indoor rent. Totong has

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Speaker 1: been having issues and Veronica di Olivera is the Black

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Speaker 1: Orchid Collective cafe owner and she's with me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thanks Veronica. How much are

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Speaker 1: you paying where you are?

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Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm not paying yet, but it would probably

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Speaker 2: be paying over one thousand dollars for like little three

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Speaker 2: tables they have in front of my business at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So it's just quite a beat just for their space

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Speaker 2: I'm using.

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Speaker 1: Actually, and this is because at the moment you're paying,

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Speaker 1: I think because you haven't needed a license they're introducing.

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Speaker 1: The licenses end up coming with a fee exactly.

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Speaker 2: So they have decided last July all the business downtown

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Speaker 2: a Mount will have to pay feats out. So it's

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Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty dollars staty square meter, but's

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Speaker 2: a five hundred dollars administration feeds. I'm not very sure

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Speaker 2: what is it about. But yeah, so for the space

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Speaker 2: that I have now, I would be saying at least

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Speaker 2: like five square meters.

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Speaker 1: Right, can you describe the space for us? Is it

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Speaker 1: on the footpath or.

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Speaker 2: It's on the footpaths? Yeah? Yeah, you off my cafe.

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Speaker 1: Do your tables block the footpath or anyone, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're disabled or the elderly or.

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Speaker 2: No, definitely not. It's actually like rules frame, so all

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Speaker 2: the business amount or probably in New Zealand have to

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Speaker 2: follow all the rules. Like it's like I don't know

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Speaker 2: how many meters, but that is a space that you

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Speaker 2: need to leave for the people to pass. So I

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Speaker 2: understand the fact that they want to control a little

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Speaker 2: bit because the summer time is quite busy and you

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Speaker 2: cut really pass. But it's the only time of the

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Speaker 2: year that we actually is very busy. That's the time

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Speaker 2: that we actually make money. You know, the city is busy.

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Speaker 2: So it's like the style of the mount is the

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Speaker 2: soul of the mount, and this what's happening now. I

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Speaker 2: believe a lot of people will rebel against and we're

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Speaker 2: going to lose a few of these little tables outside

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Speaker 2: and we'll just you know, make the city quieter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice to have people outside and it does

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Speaker 1: make the city look busy. As you say, Veronica, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. Veronica de Olivera. She's

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Speaker 1: the Black Awkward Collective Cafe and toto Ona and she's

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Speaker 1: going to be paying one thousand dollars a year for

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Speaker 1: three tables on the footpath. For more Familier Edition with

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