‘Keep fighting’: Luke Baylis on taking back control of Sumo Salad – The Sydney Morning Herald

But its been a tough road for the franchised salad business, which put two leasing entities for its store sites into voluntary administration in June last year as the company fought to renegotiate lease agreements with Westfield shopping centres.

That process helped Sumo Salad negotiate with landlords, but one year later it called in the administrators for its 85-store network.

Business is an incredible volatile game, Baylis says.

He believes there is a sense in Australian business that calling in administrators is disastrous, but it shouldnt be viewed this way.

A lot of businesses will have to restructure at some point, voluntary administration or not. But there is a sense of fear and failure, which doesnt exist in reality.