A BAND of amateur cooks are turning their hobby into new businesses - and their homes into tea rooms and restaurants. ANNA TOBIN investigates...
While Lynn gets the kettle on her husband David, 57, who is also retired, helps to serve their customers.Lynn is covered by public liability insurance, her kitchen is registered with the local authority and she has a food hygiene certificate."i've always loved baking and people like the idea of coming into someone's home for afternoon tea," says Lynn, 60, who charges pounds 13 a head.EVERY month Lynn hill, turns her three-bedroom semi in Leeds into the Secret Tea room."I like the flexibility of running things from home. I don't think it would work as well in a conventional teashop. People like the idea of coming into someone's home, it's much more social because you have to chat to the others on your table. it's a new way of going out."
"I like the flexibility of running things from home. I don't think it would work as well in a conventional teashop. People like the idea of coming into someone's home, it's much more social because you have to chat to the others on your table. it's a new way of going out."
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