POPULAR VILLAGE CAFE & TAKEAWAY NEAR PRESTON

Super opportunity to acquire very well established food bar with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade offering fresh & varied traditional menu on 6-day week & latest closing 2.30 pm from superbly fitted 13-cover premises on main road through charming & prosperous village. Comes with valuable inventory of high-end equipment & fittings included & HUGE scope for deliveries & extended hours etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Very sensibly priced for quick genuine sale with early viewing strongly advised REF 3081

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position with little in the way of direct local competition in a charming and prosperous commuter village situated with excellent access both to major road and motorway links, and to the nearby centres of Preston and Blackpool, in a delightful semi-rural area of Lancashire.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of real quality and uncommon further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents exceptional value.

This very well established eatery currently primarily offers a full and varied menu of classic coffee shop and daytime-only restaurant favourites for the whole family.

The menu includes hearty traditional full English breakfasts and breakfast rolls, hot and cold snacks, sandwiches, light and full lunches, regularly changing “blackboard specials” and confectionery, with an excellent choice of hot and cold beverages also available.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its fully equipped and four-star hygiene rated commercial catering facilities employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a small, but charming, welcoming and attractively furnished in-house dining area which may comfortably accommodate in excess of ten covers.

The café also provides a popular takeaway service and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with truly vast scope for continued growth, not least with regard to a degree of menu expansion, the possible introduction of local delivery services and to operating hugely extended hours in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a far more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and ordering and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a small, experienced and motivated team of two full-time and one part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Fitted to high industry specifications throughout, these well maintained leasehold commercial premises provide outstanding and 4-star hygiene rated internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting public entrance into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious in-house and takeaway customer service area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting, tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning, prominent wall-mounted menu/specials boards and attractive loose furnishings for in excess of ten internal dining covers.

The main public area also features a large and fully fitted, timber-built food serve-over counter with a built-in, glass-fronted and refrigerated, delicatessen-style food display and serve over section, glazed-and-stainless-steel counter-top hot snack food display unit, electronic till/food ordering point, small open preparation area with chilled drinks display and hot drinks making facilities and easy open access to the main, fully fitted and equipped working kitchen with extraction system.

The main kitchen houses ample work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a dedicated frying room area with a full complement of well maintained, industry standard catering appliances, all of which we understand are to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

The premises naturally also incorporate all the usual washrooms/WC facilities for customers and staff, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a good-sized general dry goods store with separate delivery door access to the rear.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of electric heating, and we are further informed that they meet with all the required fire safety regulations.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and locally unopposed trading position on the busy main road through a picturesque commuter village in semi-rural Lancashire, to the front the premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford ample and inviting display window space onto a small pavement trading area providing additional external dining covers in good weather, with extensive unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The premises also incorporate a useful enclosed private service yard area to the rear with separate access for deliveries and outbuildings consisting of a secure external timber-built store.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price