Ocean Basket Holdings CEO Grace Harding poses for a photograph, 22 April 2022, at the Melrose Arch Ocean Basket. Picture: Michel Bega
“We’re taking affordable, quality, generous portions of seafood to the Brits. There is a gap in the market.
“They were our first guests who welcomed us with open arms and so much nostalgia. Some even went back to hug our SA back of house specialists. They miss home and Ocean Basket reminds them of home…” An orphan, perhaps. But she says the opposite is true. In her straightforward manner, Harding says she and her sister spent seven months in the institution when her mother was hospitalised with mental health problems and could not care for the girls.“I visited her often and got to know that mental health issues are real and also that they are often misunderstood…”