Key features:
- Same family ownership for 15 years
- Council lease at just £4,800 per annum (£92 per week)
- Unopposed pitch on a busy 12-unit parade
- Trading only 32 hours over 5.5 days
- Genuine retirement sale
An unopposed, refurbished fish & chip shop on a busy parade just outside Hartlepool, in the same family hands for the past 15 years and now offered as a genuine retirement sale. The shop currently trades just 32 hours a week over 5.5 days, with a council lease pegged at only £4,800 a year — leaving an obvious runway for any owner-operator willing to extend the hours and add a delivery service into a densely populated catchment.
Trading figures:
Yearly sales figures will be supplied by the vendor once a potential buyer has inspected the premises and discussed the business in person. With trading currently restricted to around 32 hours over 5.5 days, the takings reflect a deliberately part-time operation — extending into evenings, Sundays, and a delivery service is the obvious lever for an incoming owner. Please contact Rosens on --- --- ---- for trading information.
Trade equipment:
The headline item is a three-pan Frank Ford high-efficiency counter range that was virtually rebuilt just three years ago — a substantial piece of kit and the engine of the business. Alongside it: an assortment of fridges and freezers, a fish keeper, the four-pot bain-marie, cash register, work tops and cupboards, chipper, peeler, and an inventory of assorted trade utensils.
Special remarks:
If you're looking for a chippy with genuine, measurable upside, this is it: the business is trading on heavily restricted hours — about 32 hours of frying over 5.5 days — with no direct competition on the parade and a densely populated residential catchment behind it. Adding evening and Sunday sessions, plus the in-demand delivery service the area is asking for, should see the current takings double if not more. A genuine retirement sale after 15 years in the same family hands. Early viewing is strongly recommended.
