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Success at Cherbourg Cafe
by Marcus Priaulx 12 November 2013
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he key to a successful gathering is to start with everybody feeling happy. Yurri Muntha Café will soon enable people to do this by expanding its premises to accommodate a growing clientele. The Cherbourg eatery will enlarge its deck and build a designed room to host exhibitions and professional meetings. The brilliant staff will get added training and a mentor will be hired to enable a growing amount of school children to do work experience. Yurri Muntha has been running for a year and manager Sheree
Over to you Sheree: Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council CEO Warren Collins is happy that its Yurri Muntha Café manager, Sheree Strauss, is moving the business ahead with great food, service and the selling of bush tucker like this Native Pepperleaf Honey Mustard. Image supplied
Strauss said it made sense to expand the business. “The new meeting room will host about a dozen people and we’ll be on hand to provide up-to-theminute catering,” Ms Strauss said. “The room will also cater for the latest technology in an easy going atmosphere. “People will come here and feel relaxed by knowing everything will be taken care of. “They can then concentrate on their project to hand.” Art and photo exhibitions will also be hosted in the room for patrons and tourists to view. Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire
Council CEO Warren Collins said the Yurri Muntha extensions will add to the town’s character. He was grateful for the Queensland Government grant that will make them possible. Work is expected to be completed by the middle of next year and Mr Collins said the café had earned it stripes by “going pretty good. “This grant will take it to a new level,” he said. “We hope people from the wider community support it because we’re trying to build something special in Cherbourg and things are moving ahead.”
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