UK restaurateur denies turning his home into a restaurant
A man in the UK has denied running a Japanese restaurant from his home, despite having a large illuminated sign hanging above his front door.
The Norwich homeowner, Orlando Williams, previously ran a Japanese restaurant called Sakura Yakiniku, which closed in 2015. When asked about the huge sign above his door, he says that it is just his name. The sign reads “Orlando’s” and includes a phone number and a web address.
“All I do, I have my name on my house,” he told the Eastern Daily Press newspaper. “There is no restaurant there.”
However, a Facebook page for Sakura Yakiniku announced the restaurant had re-opened at the Earlham Road address in October 2018 after “temporary” closure three years prior. The restaurant’s page on TripAdvisor lists its old address in the city centre but images show the outside of Williams’s home.
A flyer shared on Facebook in October invited customers to “book a table for sushi” at Orlando’s on Earlham Road, along with the caption “open EVERYDAY from 16.00 to 22.00”.
Norwich city council said it was investigating.
Sheridan Randall, 14th January 2019
