The Australian gourmet food delivery firm P rovidoor, which was established during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns, has failed and into liquidation.
Shane Delia, the company’s creator and chef, stated on the website that orders are no longer being taken.
The company “Providoor will be formally placed into liquidation,” he declared.
But we are no longer taking orders as of right away.
To wind down the business, which had 16 full-time employees, RSM Australia Partners’ Jonathan Colbran and Tristana Steedman were chosen as liquidators.
Customers with unused gift card vouchers and those who had made reservations for future meals, they claimed, were unlikely to receive refunds.
According to our preliminary analysis of Providoor’s financial situation, there is currently not enough cash on hand to pay a dividend to creditors or issue refunds to customers, including holders of gift cards, Colbran added.
We realize that this will come as very upsetting news, but we wanted to let consumers know as soon as possible, especially if they had already made purchases for meals or gifts for forthcoming significant occasions.
According to Delia, the industry’s current economic challenges are what caused the decline.
“I created Providoor during lockdown, when the hospitality world was in disarray and we needed to find a way to survive,” he claimed.
“Providdoor allowed us to preserve jobs, develop new ones, and provide some temporary restaurant happiness to the public at a quite gloomy period.
“People’s continued use of Providoor once social limitations were eliminated proved to us that it was a wise decision.
I merely wished it had been given the chance to work through the difficult economic conditions that so many in the restaurant and hospitality business are currently experiencing.
In 2020, the gourmet delivery service was introduced, enabling Melburnians to order fine dining restaurant finish-at-home meals at a time when COVID-19 limitations made it difficult for much of the nation to eat out.
Prior to reaching Brisbane in the beginning of 2022, the company extended to Sydney and Canberra in 2021.
The Melbourne restaurant Maha owned by Delia as well as Icebergs, Supernormal, and Restaurant Hubert were among the 50 eateries that have signed up for Providoor across the cities.
Delia claimed that despite the business’ demise, he was proud of it.
Although it is a very sad day, he wrote, “I am proud of Providoor and what it has accomplished.”
“We built something that made a difference during some very dark days and served more than one million meals.”
Providoor is the second significant delivery service to go out of business this month, following the closure of the grocery store Milkrun, which was attributed to poor “economic and capital market conditions”.
