Water bomb hit to cafe

A SOUTHPORT cafe has been forced to close after its staff walked in to a dining room inundated by water.

Lishayz Cafe was flooded by 2.5cm of water in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing owner Pratheen Reddy to temporarily close.

Mr Reddy has owned the popular Gold Coast haunt since January this year.

The flooding was not the warmest welcome, he said.

The Lishayz flood was potentially the result of botched renovation work in the building upstairs, staff claim.

Chef Callan Barber: “We came in and it was raining from light fixtures. They (tradesmen working upstairs) moved a pipe they shouldn’t have, or a pipe burst.”

The biggest concern was safety of the wiring as Mr Reddy waits for an electrician to survey the damage, he said.

Mr Barber added: “That speakers came falling off the wall. Electricity was half off, so we decided to turn it off fully.”

Hundreds of dollars of drenched stock was thrown out, and the losses would grow the longer it stayed closed.

“We might open (Wednesday),” he said. “We hope.”