“I was working as a general manager for someone else and my parents had come up for a visit to Manchester. We were looking online to see how much it would cost to do something on my own and happened to find a space in the Northern Quarter, where I’d worked before and felt like home.

“The space was small, so it seemed like it would be a good starting point for me to have a go at doing something myself.

“I went to see it and two weeks later I had a cafe to run. I was still working my notice at my other job and had barely any money to scrape together everything I needed to do it my way and open Nibble.

“I ran the café, as it was previously, with their existing team, until there was enough cash flow to redecorate and rebrand, which had to be pretty cheap as running your own business, and starting one in hospitality, definitely isn’t an easy road, and it was a long, long time before we were in any kind of profit.

“I got everything together by doing it all myself. I created logos, websites, painted the walls and everything with the help of a few friends.

“I took the café online and used Google My Business to build a business profile so that people could search for us.

“The brand and the café has changed organically over time as we had a little more money in the pot, and we decorated again in lockdown to keep us busy, but again, most things we do ourselves. It’s our home.”

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