Key features:
- £6,000+ weekly turnover, evenly split counter and delivery
- Trades one lunchtime and six evenings, closing 9.30pm
- Freehold £475,000 or new 20-year lease at £150,000
- Spacious modern three-bedroom flat above
- Same ownership for 20 years, 110+ years on site
A Leicester fish & chip takeaway and delivery business turning over £6,000+ a week, trading just one lunchtime and six evenings — closing 9.30pm at the latest. The same family has held it for 20 years, the previous owners for 30 before that, and the shop itself has been trading on this site for over 110 years. Offered freehold or on a new 20-year lease, with a spacious modernised three-bedroom flat above. A genuine semi-retirement sale.
Trading figures:
The vendor reports turnover of £6,000+ per week, split roughly evenly between counter sales and deliveries. The growth story is unusually clear-cut: the shop currently opens for only one lunchtime session a week (Friday) and has no eat-in offer. Adding further lunchtime trading, introducing eat-in covers, and broadening the menu with lines such as desserts are all routes to additional revenue that the current owners simply haven't pursued.
Trade equipment:
Equipment is well maintained and relatively new throughout, headed by a two-pan Preston & Thomas range. Also included: a slush puppy machine (rented), a large drinks fridge, two chest freezers, an upright freezer, a defrosting fridge, two double kebab machines, a Bold chipper and peeler, a batter mixer, an electronic till, a nine-pot bain-marie, a salad bar with built-in fridge, a menu display, and plentiful steel racking and storage.
Special remarks:
The current owners have run this shop for 20 years; the previous owners held it for 30 before them, and the site itself has been trading as a fish & chip shop for more than 110 years. A great deal of time and care has gone into making it the much-loved central hub of its community, and the heritage photographs on the customer-area walls tell that story directly. The vendors are reluctantly selling to semi-retire. For the next owner-operator, the proposition is unusually clean: a well-maintained, properly-fitted shop with a 20-year track record under the current owners, a genuine three-bedroom home above, freehold or new long lease on the table, and concrete, identified routes to grow the takings.
