"If it goes on like this for another six or seven months like this, we're going to close."

That's the reality for Ashraf Saleh's restaurant Coya in Sydney's North Shore as the small business battles the dramatic reduction in consumer spending while cost of living pressures bite.

Saleh opened the restaurant in Northern Beaches eight years ago and business was booming but in the last few years with COVID-19 and now the cost of living crisis, he's struggling to keep the doors open.

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