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Highly Profitable Café And Takeaway In Totnes For Sale

Totnes, Devon, UK
Asking Price:
£49,950
Turnover:
Undisclosed
Net Profit:
Undisclosed

Highly profitable and easily run café and takeaway in the heart of Totnes town centre, offering 29 customer covers, a well-equipped catering kitchen and an established six-day trading week.

Stacked is a successful café and takeaway serving freshly prepared sandwiches, baguettes, breakfast baps, paninis and jacket potatoes alongside baked goods including award-winning local pasties. Barista coffee, tea, hot chocolate and cold drinks are offered, with ice cream and lollies available during the summer season. Customers can eat in the air-conditioned premises or use the takeaway service.

The business occupies an attractive double-fronted property in central Totnes, a historic South Devon market town with a population of approximately 8,000. Totnes attracts strong support from its local community and surrounding South Hams towns and villages, together with year-round visitor trade. The town's River Dart setting, medieval castle, independent character and surrounding countryside make it a popular tourist destination.

Currently trading Monday to Saturday from 8am to 5pm, the business is described as very profitable and easily run. It is operated by an owner with the assistance of three part-time staff. The premises provide 21 internal customer covers across two trading areas, plus pavement seating for eight under a pavement licence. Accounting information is available to bona fide applicants following a formal viewing.

The premises are available on a new lease, providing an incoming operator with the opportunity to take over an established café and takeaway in a prominent town-centre location. Viewing is highly recommended and can be arranged by prior appointment with Bettesworths.

Property Information

Property:

Leasehold

Leasehold Type:
New
Lease Terms:

Furniture, Fixtures & Fittings:
Furnishings and equipment are included as per an inventory to be supplied, excluding the owners’ personal effects.

Lease Terms:
New Fully Repairing and Insuring lease. The tenant will be responsible for 20-25% of the external repair costs for the building as a whole. Further terms are to be negotiated.

Lease Requirements:
Applicants will be required to provide a CV, references, business plan and proof of funding. Depending on experience, a six-month rent deposit and one year’s insurance rent may also be required.

Business Rates / Rateable Value:
2026 List: £15,500. This is the Rateable Value and not the amount of rates payable. Interested parties are advised to make their own enquiries with the Local Billing Authority.

Leasehold Rent:

£16,500 per annum. per annum

Location:

Stacked is situated in the heart of Totnes town centre, a historic and popular market town in the South Hams area of South Devon.

Totnes sits on the River Dart and has a population of approximately 8,000. The town benefits from a strong local community and draws customers from surrounding South Hams towns and villages, together with year-round visitors attracted by the town centre, medieval castle and surrounding countryside.

Totnes is approximately 22 miles south-west of Exeter, 24 miles east of Plymouth and 6 miles west of Torbay.

Premises Details:

An attractive double-fronted café and takeaway with a recessed entrance, two customer trading areas, catering kitchen, wash-up area, substantial cellar storage and pavement seating.

The main trade area measures approximately 18'8" x 15'2" (5.68m x 4.62m) and incorporates the customer service area and seating for approximately 10. Equipment includes an undercounter display unit, wall-mounted chalkboard menus, EPOS till system, Iberital two-group coffee machine and electric grinder, three-door undercounter fridge with granite worktop, sink with electric water heater, heated display cabinet and large upright chiller. A wall-mounted heating and air-conditioning unit was fitted in 2024.

Stairs lead down to the secondary trade area measuring approximately 18'8" x 10'7" (5.68m x 3.22m), providing further seating for 11 customers.

There are separate ladies’ and gents’ cloakrooms and a dry storeroom.

The catering kitchen measures approximately 11'6" x 10'7" (3.51m x 3.23m) and is equipped with two commercial bake-off ovens, two commercial microwaves, panini machine, Ninja two-drawer air fryer, domestic electric cooker, extraction, undercounter fridges and freezer.

The wash-up area measures approximately 10'7" x 6'0" (3.23m x 1.82m) and includes a commercial dishwasher, sink with electric water heater, storage shelving and office area.

The cellar measures approximately 19'2" x 14'10" (5.85m x 4.53m) and provides extensive refrigeration and storage facilities, including a walk-in fridge with a new compressor fitted in 2025, two chest freezers, three fridges and a large upright freezer.

Outside, a pavement licence provides seating for eight customers to the front of the café, with a bin store accessed from the side lane.

Size in square feet:
Approximately 1,013 sq ft
Energy Performance Rating:
B

Business Operation

Management type:
This business is owner operated.
Trading hours:

Monday to Saturday, 8am-5pm.

Employees:
Owner-operated with three part-time staff.