Come breakfast with Commerce Torquay

COMMERCE Torquay is bringing back its popular series of business breakfasts, with the next to be held at Bomboras next week.

The free event is being hosted by regional law firm Coulter Legal, and local business owners have been invited along to say hello to 2022 with coffee, breakfast and networking.

“I think it’s coming back into the networking that we’ve always known,” Commerce Torquay board member Les Watson said.

“We’ve always done networking and it’s an opportunity for us to come back into it – big thanks to Coulter Legal, because it takes it takes a village to make these sorts of things happen.

“Without people putting events on, no-one can get together.

“But the big thing out of events like this is people get to do business with one another, people get to catch up with old friends, old colleagues, old prospects, old customers, and some young customers as well.

“So let’s get back together, let’s get on with it and close the door on what was and move into what we can do.”

Summer is officially over, and Mr Watson said for some traders in the region, it would be like “coming out of hibernation”.

“Some people are wanting to, some people aren’t; some people are going ‘ye’’, some people are going ‘no’. It’s like two steps forward, one step back.

“But for a lot of people, they’re putting their doors wide open going ‘Let’s go, we can we can do this’.”

COVID-19 restrictions have eased considerably since the start of 2022, and Mr Watson said this was a further boost to customer confidence.

“It’s nice to see everyone’s faces apart from masks, and that sort of thing, and not having to QR code in.

“It was another barrier for people – ‘I don’t want to, I really need to just have the freedom I used to have’.”

The Commerce Torquay breakfast will be held at Bomboras, 37 The Esplanade, Torquay, on Thursday, March 17, from 7.30am.

Entry is free. RSVP by emailing [email protected].