Plans revealed for former Sheffield city centre Appetito café building on Glossop Road
Sign goes up as new business is set to take over former café premises in Sheffield city centre
Bosses have revealed their plans to transform a former Sheffield city centre café building.
Shopfitters and signmakers have starting on work to revamp what was once the site of the Appetito Italian café on Glossop Road, which had been operating from the premises since 2016.
Yesterday, the former café sign had been taken down and was lying on the floor inside the building.
In its place, a new sign was being put in place, for a new business which is set to move in in the next couple of weeks. Scaffolding was in place outside the shop while the sign was being put in place.
New lighting also appeared to have been put in place inside the premises as part of the changes being carried out.
The man behind the scheme, who gave his name only as ‘Sam’, said that the building was being transformed into a men’s hair salon.
It will be called 249 Cutz, and although an opening date for the new business has not been confirmed, he said he expected it to be ready to open in the next six to 10 days.
He added that there would be six chairs operating at the new shop, and that he had already recruited the stylists who would be working there.
He said he was looking forward to opening up, and that he already operated a salon in the Chapeltown area of the city.
The previous café, Appetito, was described in a review in The Star last year as an ‘authentic Italian gem hidden in plain sight’.