Brisbane hospitality’s Thirsty Occasions ordered to be wound up
The courts have ordered a Brisbane hospitality operator to wind up his trading company Thirsty Occasions.
Mic Uebergang announced in May that he was temporarily shutting his two Teneriffe establishments, Dalgety Public House and the adjacent Meating Room.
He said the closures would only last a week or so while he considered potential buyout offers.
But since then two of his other venues, Oxford Gardens at Bulimba and The Florence in Toowoomba, have also ceased trading. Following raids by Office of Liquor and Gaming inspectors, those two joints were collectively fined $90,000 in July for selling alcohol without a licence.
Uebergang’s company was tipped into liquidation by Jensen Market Supplies, a family-owned distributor of fruit and veg which launched legal action in the Supreme Court in August to recover about $5000.
Liquidator David Hambleton, from accounting mob Rodgers Reidy, said it was too early to say how much is owing to Thirsty Occasions creditors.
It is believed the company also owns the tax office $224,000.
Sheridan Randall, 1st October 2019
