CAFE based Llanelli taking £5,500 pw

Prime main road location Llanelli. Run on short hours with scope to extend. 54 cover seating area fitted and equipped to exceptional high standard and viewing absolutely essential. Reasonably priced for quick sale. REF MOB 1113

The subject premises occupy an outstanding trading position, close to the local mainline railway station, on a very high footfall suburban main road through a busy mixed residential and commercial area undergoing a major programme of regeneration on the outskirts of the vibrant waterside market town of Llanelli, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A484, A476, A4138 and M4 Junction 48 etc.) and approximately 10.5 miles from the nearby city of Swansea, on the Loughor Estuary in Carmarthenshire.

We at "My Own Business" are really delighted to present to the market this outstanding opportunity to acquire a thriving, family-run commercial proposition of real quality and uncommon further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This long established and highly regarded TripAdvisor five-star rated eatery currently primarily offers a full and varied morning, lunchtime and early afternoon menu of classic cafe and coffee shop favourites for the whole family.

The menu includes hearty, traditional full Welsh and "mix-and-match" breakfasts, brunches, hot and cold sandwiches, snacks, including pizzas, burgers, omelettes and jacket potatoes, light and full lunches, roast Sunday dinners and regularly changing 'blackboard specials' , together with an excellent choice of side orders, indulgent home-made cakes and confectionery and a range of hot and cold beverages, including speciality coffees. with a good selection of 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 facilities employing the finest and freshest, locally-sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a bright, welcoming and attractively furnished in-house dining area which may comfortably accommodate up to fifty-four covers, with a very popular takeaway option also available.

"Willow Cafe" additionally provides a highly efficient independent local delivery service, currently exclusively to commercial customers including Police stations, care homes and commercial operators in the local area, and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to operating considerably extended hours in order to fully exploit year-round regular and passing trade

The business will soon also be exploiting all the increased volume of patronage likely to be generated both by the impending introduction of local deliveries through the "Uber Eats" platform, and on the completion of the major new nearby "Delta Lakes" multi-million-pound waterside development, which includes a state-of-the-art leisure centre, golf course, luxury hotel, up-market hosing and modern office space.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing facilities and services, both with regard to the possible introduction of its own independent dedicated website, 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 fourteen highly successful years ago by the current husband and wife proprietors, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to very high industry specifications throughout, thanks to an ongoing programme of improvements and modernisation undertaken at great expense by the current proprietors over recent years, including new flooring, ceilings and LED lighting, these extremely well maintained leasehold terraced parade premises provide excellent and highly functional, 5-Star hygiene and 5-Star TripAdvisor rated internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting and glazed public entrance directly off Station Road (B4304) into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious in-house and takeaway customer service and dining area, with a separate rear customer entrance also available from the property's small off-road parking area.

Boasting suspended ceilings with concealed LED lighting and modern and durable industrial flooring throughout for easy cleaning, the main public area boasts attractive and well maintained furnishings for some fifty-four internal covers, prominent wall-mounted menu/specials boards and a prominent and fully fitted, timber-built food serve-cover counter with electronic till point, modern, low-cost credit card payment facilities, a glass-fronted and refrigerated counter-top display unit for cakes and pastries, a glass-fronted and refrigerated soft drinks display unit and modern coffee machine etc.

The service counter area, in turn afford easy private access through to a fully fitted and extensively equipped, 'L-shaped' commercial kitchen with full extraction system, suspended ceiling, LED lighting and modern, industrial standard flooring.

The main kitchen houses ample work surfaces, a fully equipped washing-up kitchen area, a built-in and fully shelved storage cupboard and a full range of well maintained, industry standard catering appliances including a 3-burner flat-top hob with a feature, separate and adjoining dedicated oil-burning egg cooker, 24-litre deep-fat fryer, 6-pot wet-well bain marie, 2-pot electric dry-well bain marie, 3 x 1850-watt commercial microwaves, 6-slot commercial toaster, 4-slot commercial baguette toaster, small table-top pizza oven, meat slicer, table-top commercial potato/carrot peeler and numerous commercial upright refrigerator and chest freezer storage units, all of which we understand is 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 internal business accommodation consists of an inner hallway housing well fitted and maintained separate male and female washroom/WC facilities and affording separate doorway access to the rear.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of gas central heating, in addition the to added safety and security benefits of modern fire and smoke alarm systems, together with steel roller shutters to the shop front and steel security grilles to the rear.

EXTERNALLY

Superbly located within easy strolling distance of the local mainline railway station and Llanelli town centre, to the front the premises are well signed and presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space onto a high footfall mixed residential and commercial thoroughfare undergoing huge improvements as part of a major programme of local regeneration including the prestigious new nearby "Delta Lakes" waterside development.

The premises also enjoy the use of a good-sized open yard area to the rear affording off-road parking facilities for approximately 4 vehicles.

The business is fitted to high industry specifications throughout and an extensive and valuable inventory of all the well maintained, industry-standard equipment necessary for the successful operating of the business is to be included in the sale price, further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.