Fogaça closes Sal branch at Village Mall

Chef Henrique Fogaça announced yesterday the closure of his restaurant in the Village Mall shopping center. Opened at the end of 2018, Sal Gastronomia, a branch of the namesake São Paulo restaurant, had a short life in Rio. “You can hold on for a month; two months and you're going down the drain. In just these four months, we've lost half a million reais. It's complicated: the shopping center is like a partner, taking 8% of the group's revenue, you have to pay for support funds, etc. Shopping centers exploit and suck everything dry,” explained the famous MasterChef judge, also a victim of the economic devastation caused by the pandemic.