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Anyone own,or have ever owned a chippie or cafe,seen a few for sale fairly cheap leaseholds,just wondering what the profit is like in them as the books seem like creative accounting,mostly its indian subcontinent guys running them so there must be profit but the ones i have seen seem a little too good to be true so why are they for sale,just wonder if any of you gents have practical first hand experience of running or owning a fast-food establishment?

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my missus owned a café up until recently when ill health forced her to sell ... a very nice profit in the food game mate but location and footfall is key ... she also learned that buying medium end fo

Are you trying to compete with Morton for the "Most Insufferable Cnut" award?

If your talking short term you'll probably do ok but long term personally i think that type of thing will struggle.....Healthy eating will be bombarding us day and night over the coming years just loo

Been told there is a very good profit in chip shops, if its in the right location. just think how many chips you get from a big bag of spuds, and what they charge for them. you get about 2 spuds in a portion of chips. Dont forget the electric bills and staff to pay. there is a chip shop by ne there open 10.00am till 4.00am and do alot of trade.

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My pal owns a couple down on the coast near Brighton and he says it's like printing money in the summer, more than enough to keep them comfortable through the slower months.

 

You do need to get a good reputation though, competition is fierce in most towns.

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my missus owned a café up until recently when ill health forced her to sell ... a very nice profit in the food game mate but location and footfall is key ... she also learned that buying medium end food rather than cheap shit meant she had a lot of return custom .......

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If your talking short term you'll probably do ok but long term personally i think that type of thing will struggle.....Healthy eating will be bombarding us day and night over the coming years just look how many healthy eating restaurants are opening up lately its becoming trendy to be food conscious these days whenever something starts getting trendy the original things already in place will suffer ive just come out of the gym game as The Great Outdoor Gyms are going to be on every street corner over the coming years being that the government are behind it and to many of society healthy eating/living is going to be as natural to people in 20 years time as bacon and eggs was 20 years ago !....thats my theory anyway.

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If your talking short term you'll probably do ok but long term personally i think that type of thing will struggle.....Healthy eating will be bombarding us day and night over the coming years just look how many healthy eating restaurants are opening up lately its becoming trendy to be food conscious these days whenever something starts getting trendy the original things already in place will suffer ive just come out of the gym game as The Great Outdoor Gyms are going to be on every street corner over the coming years being that the government are behind it and to many of society healthy eating/living is going to be as natural to people in 20 years time as bacon and eggs was 20 years ago !....thats my theory anyway.

my thinking also ....I think the humble chippy in general has had its day...on the odd occasion we fancy fish and chips we go out to a restaurant there's a pub near me that do do a fantastic fish and chips and it's 2 for 1 on a Tuesday so we both eat top end fish and chips for 11 quid that's cheeper than the chippy problem is though they do some nice micro brewery beers so it ends up actually costing 50 quid :laugh: if we have chips at home we make our own. ?..I notice with chippys around the place a few do well but most struggle and you can bet it's not the ones doing well that are up for grabs.

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hi mate, i would have thought a good chippy/cafe wouldn't be selling cheap, if it was running at a good profit, my guess is the books have been cooked, normally when somethings to good to be true.........be wary, to have a good cafe you have to serve good food, and location is the other key, my sister in laws auntie had two cafes and they were little gold mines, unfortunately the council compulsory purchased one in Ashford for building ground(in which they robbed her) but she still has the other one, the hgv lorries park there over night for a tenner each, and then they have a fry up as well, then she gets a lot of bikers, and a lot of passing trade, she earns really well,

 

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big portions..theres a chippy down are road gives heavy on the chips,with a single fish he throws 1/2 chip in same with pasties sausage,ect,qued out every day manys a family reared outta there.lol.hear a lot of the oul ones ordering 6 single sausages mister 2 pasties n a fish :laugh: 2 tins a beans for a pound n a loaf thats a family fed n watered,locations his key hes right on a large housing estate,

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my missus owned a café up until recently when ill health forced her to sell ... a very nice profit in the food game mate but location and footfall is key ... she also learned that buying medium end food rather than cheap shit meant she had a lot of return custom .......

That's the trouble with the Turkish owned cafe's round this way, good service and very clean but the food is really low end.

I don't use them now unless I am really desperate, trouble is I don't know of any English owned ones now.

I guess a lot of people will eat shit as long as there is a large pile of chips on top.

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If your talking short term you'll probably do ok but long term personally i think that type of thing will struggle.....Healthy eating will be bombarding us day and night over the coming years just look how many healthy eating restaurants are opening up lately its becoming trendy to be food conscious these days whenever something starts getting trendy the original things already in place will suffer ive just come out of the gym game as The Great Outdoor Gyms are going to be on every street corner over the coming years being that the government are behind it and to many of society healthy eating/living is going to be as natural to people in 20 years time as bacon and eggs was 20 years ago !....thats my theory anyway.

my thinking also ....I think the humble chippy in general has had its day...on the odd occasion we fancy fish and chips we go out to a restaurant there's a pub near me that do do a fantastic fish and chips and it's 2 for 1 on a Tuesday so we both eat top end fish and chips for 11 quid that's cheeper than the chippy problem is though they do some nice micro brewery beers so it ends up actually costing 50 quid :laugh: if we have chips at home we make our own. ?..I notice with chippys around the place a few do well but most struggle and you can bet it's not the ones doing well that are up for grabs.

If its top notch it will do well, if you saw the one where I used to live you would never say it's had it's day........you might say it's never been better!

People traveling from miles around to get fish & chips.........last time I was in England it had expanded, the place was like McDonald's!

 

....but it has to be top notch.....;-)

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My mother runs a chippy and I think its shite food but always packed. On the only row of shops right in the middle of a rough council estate. Every kid growing up there knows all the staff. Heck its my mates mums and the referee we had for school football. Owners of the shop work one shift a week each but holiday 5/6 times a year for up to a month and often go up north to see there kid. Location is all that makes that shop money

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