Jennie McAlpine, best known for playing Fiz Brown on Coronation Street, and her husband Chris Farr made the announcement that Annies in Manchester would be shut down last month.
A restaurant owned by Coronation Street star Jennie McAlpine and her husband Chris Farr is said to have closed with debts of almost £500,000. The couple had announced the closure of Annies in Manchester earlier this year.
Jennie, 41, who is best known for playing Fiz Brown on the ITV show, explained that the business, which opened in 2012, had closed last month. The actor had thanked both staff and customers, whom she described as “wonderful,” in a message issued by herself and her husband at the time.
Customers were said to have been devastated. Annies had been well-known since opening more than ten years ago, including being named one of Tripadvisor’s Best of the Best restaurants in the UK last year as part of the annual Travellers’ Choice Awards.
Now it appears that Annies has closed with debts. In documents obtained by the Mirror, a list of creditors reveals debts of £498,764, including £28,000 to staff in holiday and redundancy pay. It also appears that Jennie and Chris are set to lose £411,941 that they put into it through director’s loans.
The couple were Fifth Floor Limited T/A Annies directors, the couple claimed to Companies House. According to a statement of affairs for the business, the company’s estimated total assets, which included £8, 722.49, were available for preferential creditors at the time of liquidation.
According to the document, those assets could be used to pay off employees’ £8,000 in arrears and vacation funds. The $ 6, 911.83 in debts owed to HMRC for PAYE/NIC could be used to pay the remaining $ 722.49 in assets.
The company appears to have a debt of £498, 764.51, based on the estimated total deficiency/surplus for members. The document includes unsecured non-preferential claims totaling £20,000 in employee claims involving redundancy and a PILON, £11, 125.32 to the landlord, and £411, 941.34 in directors’ loan accounts (aside from any shortfall to floating charge holders).
Annie’s closure was made public last month by Jennie and Chris on social media. They stated in a statement to customers that they were “sharing the news with a heavy heart” and thanked the community for its support over the years.
We’ve had to close the doors to Annies this week, according to the statement in July. We want to thank all the wonderful individuals, businesses, and clients who have helped us along the way. We will miss all of our wonderful customers, who we have since called friends, from our entire team.
Thank you for your ongoing assistance to us throughout these years, it continued. The couple ended the conversation by closing the restaurant by saying, “With love and thanks, Chris and Jennie,” in a letter to customers.
Fans took to the comments section at the time to express their disappointment. One wrote on Instagram following the news last month: “So sorry to hear about this! Me and my family loved our time when we went here.”
Another person remarked, “I am absolutely devastated because this was my favorite place to have afternoon tea.” While another user wrote, “So gutted. We visit Annies every time we travel to Manchester. There isn’t another place like it.
Source: Mirror
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