Next to Kungsträdgården, overlooking the park, is the restaurant Thank God It’ Friday, TGIF. But due to triple rent and a dispute in the rent committee, the restaurant is now forced to leave the gold status. By January 31 at the latest, the restaurant must have moved from the premises, which Today’s industry was the first to report on.
– I was shocked. I thought I misread the agreement, says Tony Challmafranchisee who runs the restaurant, to DN.
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Dispute in the rental board: “Risks the lives of our employees”
The conflict started in 2022 with a change of ownership. The premises where TGIF has its restaurant was previously owned by Apple, but in August 2022 they chose to sell the premises to the company Maelir, which is run by the real estate investor Jakob Johansson. Shortly thereafter, the annual rent was raised from around SEK 5.5 million to around SEK 15 million, writes DN.
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Challma thought this was unreasonable because the premises are in poor condition. Therefore, he took the dispute further to the rent board, where he wished to keep the current rental conditions and that the move would take place later in 2025. Which the rent board did not approve.
– This property is in poor condition. There are such gross deficiencies there that it risks the lives of our employees, he tells DN.
Johansson says in a comment to Dagens Industri that the restaurant’s previous agreement has been “very old and has run completely without index adjustment”.
However, Challma does not intend to give up and will file a lawsuit for indirect possession protection for more than SEK 100 million.
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