LEASEHOLD COFFEE SHOP & RESTAURANT IN WIGAN TOWN CENTRE

Exceptional opportunity to acquire a well-established and highly regarded eatery, renowned for its fresh daytime-only traditional and continental menu. This stylish and spacious premises comfortably accommodates approximately 40 covers and is strategically located in a high footfall town center, ensuring excellent year-round regular and passing trade.

The sale includes a valuable inventory of high-quality equipment, providing a seamless transition for the new owner. Additionally, there is significant potential for growth with the option to expand delivery services and extend operating hours, or to adapt the space for various alternative catering styles in this prime location.

This business is competitively priced for a swift, genuine sale after many successful years under the same ownership. Early viewing is strongly recommended. REF MOB1350

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators in the busy commercial heart of the vibrant satellite town of Wigan, which lies with excellent access both to major bus, rail, road and motorway links and to the nearby centres of Bolton (approximately 8 miles) Warrington (approximately 10 miles) and the city of Manchester (approximately 16 miles) in the Lancashire quarter of Greater Manchester.

My Own Business are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of real quality and outstanding future possibilities, which we are confident you will agree represents exceptional value.

This very well established and highly regarded eatery currently primarily offers a full and varied, daytime-only menu of classic traditional favourites with a continental twist.

The menu includes hearty full English and continental breakfasts, hot and cold snacks, sandwiches, light and full lunches, including Greek salads and pizzas, regularly changing “blackboard specials”, associated side orders, homemade cakes and desserts and an excellent choice of hot and cold beverages, including speciality coffees and milkshakes, with a range of vegetarian and ‘meal deal’ options also available.

“Café Santos” 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 the possible provision of local delivery and outside catering services, the possible introduction of licensed hospitality serves, subject to consent, and to operating considerably 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 an experienced and motivated team of 5 part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser.

Alternatively, this versatile proposition would most certainly appeal to someone simply seeking the ideal premises in which to embark upon any number of other potentially lucrative catering ventures requiring that super combination of extensive and adaptable customer service space and food preparation facilities, coupled with a commercially highly desirable location, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These substantial and extremely well fitted THREE-STOREY leasehold terraced parade premises provide outstanding and highly functional, 4-star hygiene rated internal business accommodation with Wi-Fi internet access throughout.

The accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR briefly comprises a broad and inviting, part-glazed and double-fronted, double-door public entrance directly off Mesnes Street into a bright, spacious and welcoming 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 stylish loose furnishings for approximately 25 covers.

The main public area also features a fully fitted food service counter with a large, glass-fronted and refrigerated, delicatessen-style food and drink display and serve-over section, electronic till/food ordering point, modern coffee machine with coffee grinder, milkshake machine and easy open access to a fully fitted and extensively equipped “theatre style” commercial kitchen with extraction system and stainless-steel clad walls for easy cleaning.

The main food preparation area houses a full range of well maintained, industry standard stainless- steel catering appliances including commercial pizza oven, grill, griddle, 4-pot bain marie and various refrigerator storage units etc., all of which we understand is to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a fully fitted and equipped washing-up kitchen area with double stainless-steel sink unit.

Accessed by means of a staircase from the ground-floor dining area, to the FIRST FLOOR the premises provide further excellent business accommodation, which consists of an additional, attractively furnished and appointed overflow dining area for approximately 15 covers.

Further ancillary accommodation to the first floor consists of all the usual separate male and female washrooms/WC facilities for customers, together with a good-sized general dry goods store and staff restroom area.

Further ancillary accommodation to the SECOND FLOOR consists of an additional, good-sized general dry goods storage area housing a small, fully furnished and equipped private and general administration office.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of electric heating and double glazing, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of full fire and intruder alarm systems.

Externally:

To the exterior the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted window space onto a high footfall town centre commercial thoroughfare, with customer parking available in a number of nearby public car parks.

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