O n one side of the street, an advertising agency: well-fed, well-paid people heading out for lunch. On the other, a queue stretching down the pavement – a couple of hundred people waiting for a meal at a soup kitchen . For Michael Brown, the contrast became impossible to ignore. “We’d be off to go and get a seven-quid sandwich from Pret,” he recalls. “And we passed the soup kitchen daily… one day I just said, ‘What are we doing?!’” That moment – that small, uncomfortable realisation – set in motion what would eventually become 130 Primrose, a glamorous new restaurant in north London built on a simple but ambitious idea: that employment, not charity alone, can be a route out of homelessness . 130 Primrose sits in north London – a stylish neighbourhood restaurant and stepping stone into work (130 Primrose/Supplied) The premise is straightforward. Recruit people with lived experience of homelessness, train them, pay them, give them qualifications and help them move into long-term jobs in hospitality.…