STYLISH LICENSED COFFEE SHOP & BISTRO IN HARROGATE TOWN CENTRE

Super opportunity to acquire very well established & TripAdvisor highly rated eatery offering fresh & varied daytime-only coffee shop & bistro menu from stylish & superbly fitted 30-cover character parade premises with excellent year-round regular & passing trade in prosperous year-round tourist town centre. Comes with full & valuable restaurant table licence & HUGE scope for extended hours etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Very sensibly priced for quick genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands with extensive inventory of quality equipment & fittings included & early viewing essential REF 3128

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators in the busy heart of the prosperous and historic year-round tourist spa and market town of Harrogate, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A59, A61, A658, A661 and A1M junctions 46 and 47 etc.) in a delightful semi-rural area of North Yorkshire.

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

This very well established and “TripAdvisor” highly rated discerning food lover’s paradise currently primarily offers a full and varied menu of classic coffee shop and daytime bistro favourites for the whole family.

The menu includes hearty traditional full English, American and continental breakfasts, brunches, hot and cold snacks, sandwiches, soups, salads, light and full bistro lunches, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, indulgent homemade cakes and patisserie and an excellent choice of hot and cold beverages, including speciality coffees, with vegetarian and gluten-free options always available.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its extensively equipped and five-star hygiene rated commercial catering kitchen employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a charming, welcoming and attractively furnished in-house dining area which may accommodate up to thirty covers in style and comfort, with additional external covers also available in good weather.

“Café Rita” also boasts all the superbly fitted traditional free-of-tie licensed bar facilities associated with an establishment of this kind and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with truly vast scope for continued growth, not least with regard to operating hugely extended hours, particularly for evening dining purposes, in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, particular with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it has achieved since being established in its present form some eight highly successful years ago by the current director, with the aid only 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 unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these charming and extremely well maintained leasehold character parade premises provide truly outstanding and “TripAdvisor” highly rated internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises stepped access to an inviting, recessed and part-glazed public entrance directly off Bower Road into the main, charming, welcoming and deceptively spacious customer service and dining area with feature suspended lighting system, polished timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning, prominent wall-mounted menu/specials boards and stylish loose furnishings for approximately 30 internal dining covers.

The main public area also features a fully fitted food service counter and free-of-tie licensed servery with built-in glass-fronted and refrigerated drinks display units, glass-fronted and refrigerated counter top food display unit, modern coffee machine with coffee grinder and computerised till/food ordering point.

The ground-floor premises also afford descending staircase access down to further excellent business accommodation to the LOWER GROUND FLOOR, which consists of the main, fully fitted and extensively equipped 5-Star hygiene rated commercial kitchen with extraction system.

The main kitchen houses ample work surfaces, storage units, a fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area and a full range of modern and 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 made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary accommodation to this lower level consists of a good-sized general dry goods/bottle store, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities for customers and staff.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of air conditioning, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of full fire and intruder alarm systems.

Externally:

Occupying a fantastic and much sought-after trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators on a high footfall commercial thoroughfare with excellent access to major tourist routes in Harrogate town centre, to the exterior the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space to the front and side onto a well maintained and furnished paved external terrace area providing additional external dining covers in good weather, with customer parking available in a number of nearby local public car parks.

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