A fast route to fryer finance for Sam’s Fish Bar

A fast route to fryer finance for Sam’s Fish Bar

Even with two profitable outlets, lenders were steering clear of financing fish and chip shop Sam’s Fish Bar. But having grown wise to alternative solutions, co-owner Navjit Chatha knew where to go instead, helping his family enterprise move on to their next stage of...

Johnson Reed help the Seagull's Ocean Boat fry the competition

When experienced businessman Mr Spiros Bojouri recently took over the established fish and chip shop The Seagull’s Ocean Boat in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he had plans to improve this popular business. Understanding quality is important in the catering industry he...
The Fisherman’s Wife expands into Headingley with new chip shop

The Fisherman’s Wife expands into Headingley with new chip shop

Up in northern Leeds, there is a quiet revolution going on as a family business is making a name for itself as a quality fish and chip shop chain, spanning locations across the north as far as Whitby, Leeds, Bishopthorpe, York, and now, Headingley. We were approached...

Battye’s secret batter recipe for a special fish and chip shop

When the recession started battering Neil Battye’s building business, he decided the time had come to start battering fish instead – particularly as his wife Jo and their respective families had past experience in running fish and chip shops and catering...

Ex-chippie opens brand new chippy

We don’t know what Derren Richardson puts on his passport as his profession. Chippie, or chippy owner? He used to work in a fish and chip shop, then became a joiner, and now he’s returned to the business he swore he’d left for good. But this time it’s his own...