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Accommodation / Food Food and beverage service activities Restaurants and mobile food service activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
105 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 February 2025
Employment effect (start)
17 March 2025
Foreseen end date
17 May 2025
Description
‘Saldi kava’, a bankrupt company belonging to the Amber Food restaurant group and combining the Sugamour and Mollusca brands, lays off all 105 employees. In mid-January this year, Saldi Kava contacted the company's creditors and informed them that the company was initiating out-of-court insolvency proceedings.
The decision was taken following an assessment of the company's financial situation and prospects. The company's financial situation was affected by several unfavourable circumstances: first, the pandemic, then the abolition of the VAT exemption in 2024 and the simultaneous increase in the minimum wage. This led to a steady deterioration of the company's financial situation in 2024. All 105 workers in the company received a dismissal notice. By occupational qualification, they are waiters (25), cooks (24), pastry cooks (12), administrators (10), support staff (10), baristas (9), and other workers.
According to the company's representatives, about one-third of the dismissed 'Saldi kava' employees have expressed their desire to work in other restaurants of the group, so they will likely be offered a job in other companies of the Amber Food restaurant group.
Eurofound (2025), Saldi kava, Bankruptcy in Lithuania, factsheet number 202380, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202380.
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