City cafe to open second outlet at Burnside Village
A popular city cafe which has been caught up in protests at Santos’ CBD building has unveiled plans to expand into Adelaide’s affluent east.
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The city cafe caught up in Extinction Rebellion protests at Adelaide’s Santos building will open a new pop-up outlet at Burnside Village.
Bluprint cafe owner Frankie Marafioti said its Burnside pop-up is due to open next week.
“The way it has been built is temporary, until the new section opens inside Burnside Village … so we will be there from ideally next week onwards, until 2025,” he said.
“Then, when that new section opens up, we will go in there, hopefully.”
The Burnside pop-up will offer a more “grab and go” selection of food, rather than the full kitchen menu available at Bluprint’s city cafe.
The existing Bluprint cafe at 60 Flinders St in the city will continue to operate.
“We are not relocating – it’s in addition,” Mr Marafioti said.
The Santos building was damaged in May during a protest by Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters, who sprayed the premises using fire extinguishers filled with paint and water.
Mr Marafioti said the protesters were at the Santos building again on Monday, and continue to disrupt business.
“It’s always been an issue. They are there every Monday … sometimes it affects us more than other days, but we try to do our best to manage that.”
He said the protesters were targeting energy company Santos, and not his business, but that their actions did deter some potential cafe customers.
“I don’t think they consider other people … it’s also quite problematic for us,” Mr Marafioti said.
“People don’t feel open to come into the building … so it’s a bit of an impact.”
Three of the May protesters, Sarah Edwards from NSW and Bradley Homewood and Heinke Weber from Victoria, were arrested and pleaded guilty to a number of counts.
They were ordered to pay Santos $5345 for the damage, which they split three ways to pay $1781 compensation each.
Edwards was also given a suspended seven-day sentence, placed on 12-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay SA Police $5346.28 for damage to two officers’ leather and Kevlar armour.
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