Owner Abaid Hussain, who is known by the nickname “Ice” to customers, said he wants more support for “microbusinesses” like his who have been hit by the impact of the Covid pandemic and then spiralling costs.
He said those factors had been “the downfall for a lot of businesses, especially health businesses because the first thing people are going to knock on the head was supplements”.
Mr Hussain said it had been a “constant battle” to try to stay afloat and called for more support.
“Every penny I’m making is going back into the business. Do we see any support or anything? Not for micro businesses,” he said.
He called for politicians to “come down and actually spend a couple of days in our shoes and see what we go through”.
“They haven’t tasted poverty and there’s been days when we can’t go home, and can’t put anything on the table,” he added.