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Fish & Chips!
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Johnny Au
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W. K. Lis
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Oceans are deserts...
Admiral Beez
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I‘ve always considered lobster a big bug.
W. K. Lis
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Golden Crisp is CLOSED for the time being due to the sudden loss of Harry, the Owner.
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Golden Crisp Fish & Chips, Toronto, Ontario. 1,469 likes · 751 were here. Golden Crisp Fish & Chips is a multi-generational family owned business in Toronto, Ontario. We serv
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Admiral Beez
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On Friday we have I think my best ever fish and chips. $12 including really good soup from https://www.redcranberries.ca/menus, click the Specials.
Towered
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Very curious about this, but fish n' chips isn't ideal takeout food. I'll wait until dine-in is possible again.
Admiral Beez
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Trick is to get home quick. Then it’s great takeout. It’s the original British takeaway, wrapped in newspaper eaten on the trot with a wooden fork.
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Towered
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When I spent a week in Scotland, it was 95% of what I ate there. I literally ate fish & chips every single day, more than once. It was awesome.
TOareaFan
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Anyone want to get into the fish and chip business with an established well thought of brand/outlet .....6 locations!
Jonny5
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I didn't know you could use realtor.ca to sell a business. I guess they are selling the leases, technically.Anyone want to get into the fish and chip business with an established well thought of brand/outlet .....6 locations!
I liked the note that "Every Single One Of These Stores Have A Wall (Or Walls) Dedicated To The Best Of Awards And Accolades That These Businesses Win Year After Year."
That reminds me of basically every single old-school fish and chip shop I've ever been to. They all have the wall of "best ofs" from community newspapers you've never heard of that they've won for 30 years in a row.
Somehow all of these places are #1 according to some survey.
Richard White
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Those are usually the best places.
I would rather go to a place with a bunch of hokey awards than a commercialized place like Halibut House. Smaller places try harder and have more flexibility to make the food better. Commercial restaurants have a process from which they cannoy deviate no matter how bad the food is.
Those awards may he obscure but the food is usually quite good.
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Heritage Fish & Chips isn't even that great. Henry's, at Vodden & Main, is Brampton's best.
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Sort-of Secret: Sailor's Fish and Chips, a new takeout counter inside Hooked on Danforth
Unsurprisingly, the city's seafood experts make some pretty good snacks
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Jonny5
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Something I came across to share here from The Guardian: A Funeral for Fish and Chips
It's a longform story that covers a mass closure of Fish and Chip shops across the UK.
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Some of the reasons are obvious: people eating out less because money is tight, and rising prices are cutting margins for the business.
However there were others factors I found more interesting:
It's a longform story that covers a mass closure of Fish and Chip shops across the UK.
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing?
The long read: Plenty of people will tell you the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland is the best place in the world to eat fish and chips. So what happens when its chippies – and chippies across the UK – start to close?
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Some of the reasons are obvious: people eating out less because money is tight, and rising prices are cutting margins for the business.
However there were others factors I found more interesting:
- Many shops have difficulty finding staff as peeling potatoes is the last thing anyone wants to do, but also operating the fryer is a demanding and also a dangerous job, especially in a very busy shop with constant orders for a few hours straight. One moment of lapsed attention can have catastrophic consequences, yet these jobs rarely pay more than working as a waiter in a nice air conditioned chain restaurant, so there is high pressure to increase wages to get employees, but they don't have that extra money.
- Fires are a major risk and much more common than in other restaurants, and as a result insurance premiums are very high, and the insurance companies are notorious for finding reasons not to pay out the policy after a fire.
- The fryer is very energy intensive, so they are highly susceptible to changes in natural gas costs. It doesn't go into detail but notes fryers are generally very energy inefficient equipment, and they also break down frequently which means you may have to shut your doors waiting for repairs.
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