Inverness café Grumpy Chef to sell gluten free products to help community in coronavirus crisis
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An Inverness café is selling gluten free and other items difficult to find in shops to help the local community deal with the coronavirus emergency.
City centre café The Grumpy Chef has announced it will make a range of gluten free products available as well as soya milk and toilet paper.
Founder and owner, Richard Stewart, said: "I was talking to a couple of friends who have coeliac disease and they were very worried as they found it very difficult to find any gluten free products in the shops, so I thought I could do my bit to help the local community.
"Some of the products we are selling are ones that we already stock for the café and some are additional, but I haven't had any issues with our suppliers at the moment. From tomorrow we are trying to add fresh fruit to the list as some people suggested that this is starting to lack in supermarkets.
"It has been quite popular so far, although we are still testing this at the moment. At first I thought it would have been just people in Inverness coming forward, but today I was contacted by a lady in Aviemore who couldn't find any gluten-free pasta around so she travelled all the way from there."
The Grumpy Chef is also providing a take away menu and will now also be open on Sundays to support people whilst other business are shut.
Mr Stewart added: "We are a small business but it's important for us to help if we can and, with the current situation, we are trying to think of ways that will allow us to stay open as much as we can.
"Members of staff understand the situation and have been really supportive, I really don't want to lose any one of them so we'll do our best and keep on doing our bit for the community."
Anyone interested can get in touch with the Grumpy Chef on Facebook or by calling 01463 239757.
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