Thanks Piotr
As part of a verbal agreement and handshake, we agreed that if the shop couldn’t support the 3 of us (me, him, his wife) that he’d pay me back my investment. They were unable to take the place forward for more than a few more months and so I was quite lucky with the timing/agreement.
It wasn’t so tricky to buy STEEM if you knew where to look - I had no clue what I was doing, and learned the ropes here on Steem.