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Derbyshire Times Love your local pub feature - Sorbo Lounge, Chesterfield

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00:00Pubs have been a cornerstone of our local communities for centuries, offering a place

00:12for people to meet together and socialise, as well as providing thousands of jobs and

00:16a cornerstone of the local economy. Here we go behind the bar to meet the people who run

00:21our pubs and say why it's important for you to love your local.

00:24I'm at the Sorbo Lounge in Chesterfield talking to... I'm Courtney, I'm the General Manager.

00:29Yeah, and how long have you worked here? I've been here for six years, a year after

00:34that it opened I came in as the General Manager. Previously it was a post office building,

00:41it laid vacant for a while and we took it over lounges and they made it into a lovely

00:46Sorbo Lounge, which is named after the Sorbridge Roof Street next to us. That's like a nod

00:52to it. How many people do you employ? 15 to 20 people. It's quite a small workforce,

01:01quite intertwined like a little family, so it's not too crazy. Tell me a bit about what's

01:06the most popular drink and food here? So coffees is definitely what we're known for, we're

01:11seen as a cafe bar restaurant but we're definitely seen more as a cafe, so it's coffees and breakfasts,

01:16they're our most popular dishes, especially if you come in the daytime. If you come to

01:21the evening, probably something like a buttermilk chicken, more of a main meal in the evenings,

01:27but definitely in the day we're known for breakfasts and coffees, especially our lattes,

01:32but definitely our most popular drink. What beers do you serve as well? So we serve a

01:38range of beers, our most popular one is probably our Birra Moretti, although we've recently got

01:42the Cruz Campo online and people tend to like that one as well, but Birra Moretti is definitely

01:46our top seller. So what's the best thing about working at Sova then? The people that you work

01:52with and the atmosphere we're able to create, so we've managed to make our place, even though it's

01:58quite small, into a very family-orientated business. We absolutely love children and we

02:02love having families in here. There's not a lot of places to eat with families and so we try to

02:07cater for that, especially because most of the people working here are mums, so we want to create

02:12somewhere where we can bring our own children, so we're all very proud of working here and making

02:16it a very family-orientated place. So what do you offer for families? So we have free children's

02:22books, children can come in, take as many books as they like from our book corner, including adults

02:28as well, we do have adult books that they can take, but it's definitely our children's books

02:31that we're most proud about. We have a large children's area for kids to play in, there's

02:36no restrictions on where children can go in a lounge, they can go anywhere, they can play anywhere,

02:40and we've got board games available, teddy bears behind me which you can see, which children can

02:45just take and adopt all year round, as many teddies as they like, there's no purchase necessary to

02:50use any of the facilities in our lounge. We've also got free nappies, baby products in our baby

02:57change area for new mums, just in case they've forgotten something. So it's very, very family-

03:03orientated and we've got a craft table out 24-7 as well. Is there any memorable moments of working

03:08here? I mean I've been here a very long time, anything, whenever we do little things for

03:15customers, so sometimes we have customers that come in and we'll give them a free drink or a

03:19free cake and it's definitely seeing their reactions that I absolutely adore. Thankfully

03:25we're in a company that allows us to do a lot for our regular customers and that's my favourite

03:30moment, every time that happens. Have you got any future plans? At the moment we're raising money

03:37for Baby Basics, so we've got a lot of raffles, a lot of giveaways, but then we'll start raising

03:43money for my local farm that I live near because I live in Stonebroom, so I'll be focused on raising

03:48money and funds for building a community centre hopefully for the people in our local area,

03:54so that's the next big plan. It's a great place to work and I really hope more people find us as

04:00well because although we're on the high street, lots of people miss us so I hope they find us.

04:05Come on, pop in and have a coffee.

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