Plant-based restaurant Mother will open as a co-working space during the day while continuing to serve dinner customers at night, as part of a new diversification strategy.
Plant-based restaurant Mother will open as a co-working space during the day while continuing to serve dinner customers at night, as part of a new diversification strategy.
The new venture, called Earthed, will be run by Mother co-founders Emma and Heath Daly.
Mr Daly said the idea for a co-working space came after they had to stop lunch trade due to falling patronage after mask and vaccine mandates were introduced earlier this year.
He said the large drop in lunch customers led to a ‘pivot-or-perish’ situation.
Ms Daly said they loved doing administrative work in the restaurant during the day and thought others would enjoy using the area, too.
She said the pair then got to work research and creating a healthy work environment, using Mr Daly’s 25 years’ experience as a naturopath.
“Our focus was on creating a fantastic co-working environment that anyone would want to come to anyway and then on top of that, adding in all the health-optimisation elements,” Ms Daly told Business News.
The co-working space provides booths and tables, a private meeting room and a coffee bar, as well as access to a yoga studio upstairs.
Mr Daly said the site included electromagnetic field mitigation devices, “earthing mats” for laptops, blue light blocking glasses, standing desks, anti-fatigue mats and plants for air purification.
The co-working space launches next week, on Tuesday April 26, is open 8am to 4pm every day, and is offering free use in the first week.
It is the second co-working space to open in recent weeks, after Vitality House launched in West Leederville earlier this month.
