CAFE BOSS’ FRESH TAKE
VANESSA Izzard is retailing some of the food she believes helped save her life.
After doing a roaring trade in the first few days of operating her new cafe, she couldn’t be happier.
“We have been absolutely smashed. People are just loving us and loving the food. It’s been great,” Ms Izzard said.
She is operating Seashells Takeaway at Coles Deeragun and focuses on providing fresh organic food, whether it is grass-fed steaks, fresh reef fish every day or free-range eggs.
Ms Izzard previously was an industrial cleaner who contracted lung cancer.
She attributes a miraculous recovery to a change in diet to fresh, organic foods.
“I believe it was a change in diet. I’m fully cured. The doctors are really happy and confident it is never going to come back. I’m putting it down to the natural things I did,” she said.
It is a practice she is now putting into her new cafe, which she had planned last year but opened last week after being delayed by events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Knight Frank Townsville leasing executive Louise Slater said she was now busy after activity in the market came to a halt in the first few weeks of the virus outbreak in Australia.
She identified the cafe site at the Coles Deeragun centre from one of several available in the area for Ms Izzard.
Ms Slater said the foot traffic into and out of the supermarket provided good trade for a cafe.
She added the property agency fielded a lot of inquiry from people looking to establish small businesses in Deeragun because it was a growing residential area providing opportunities in the market.