Rupa's Café is meant to be closed. Photo: Google Maps
Auckland Council has sent compliance officers to lay down the law at an inner-city cafe that was supposed to have closed last month.
Rupa's Café on Wellington St in Freeman's Bay had its food registration cancelled in June and the café announced on social media, it would permanently close from July 4.
However reporting by Stuff, indicated it had been serving customers in the first week of August.
Auckland Council's Team Leader for Environmental Health Response, Alan Ahmu, said in a statement a food service officer first visited the café on Tuesday morning but found it appeared to be closed.
An officer later made contact with the occupant, who "now has an awareness of the registration requirement, has ceased trading and advises they will not trade again unless they are registered," Ahmu said.
Rupa's Cafe had previously caught the council's attention over a significant unpaid rates bill, and its owner Dilip Rupa was prosecuted in 2021 for not displaying Covid-19 QR codes.
RNZ called Rupa's Cafe for comment but nobody picked up the phone, and there was no answering machine.
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