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The Big Chippy Dudley
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02/02/2025
The Big Chippy Dudley
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00:00
The big chippy over in Drew's Lane in Upper Gorno, so my name is Sookie Sahota, one of the owners of the business
00:07
It's a family-run business, and it's owned by both me and my brother
00:11
We actually saw you on the Express and Start advert probably about 18 months ago now, so
00:18
Growing up always loved chips
00:20
I drove past this chip shop in
00:23
Probably a couple of months before it come up on auction
00:26
And I was like oh nice chippy, but it was closed
00:30
Second time around about a month later. I had to drive past there again. Never been to the area before didn't know about the area
00:38
Drove past again, and I was like oh that same chippy again. I'll grab some chips from there on the way home again closed
00:45
Scrolling through Facebook around Christmas time and it come up on the Express and Start
00:50
Feed to say you can buy a chippy at the price of a house, and I was like hmm. Let's have a look at it
00:55
Came to view it. It's swamped with viewings, loads of people and then a
01:01
Lot of people obviously wanted to buy it, went to auction
01:04
It didn't actually go for the price that we were probably expecting
01:07
We actually probably got it at a lower price than we was expecting
01:10
Brought it at auction. My brother to be fair. He wanted to buy it more than probably I did. Brought it and was like oh, okay
01:18
Let's go for it kind of thing. So my brother's background was construction, mine was banking
01:24
So we renovated the place and we opened up a few months ago
01:28
And then I've quit my day-to-day banking job to come into the business
01:34
only recently so
01:36
Yeah, and we've been really successful since we've opened so hopefully long may it continue
01:42
We haven't reinvented the chip. What we're trying to do is do good quality food at a good affordable price
01:48
What we've seen over the last sort of 12 to 18 months
01:51
Especially after probably more coming out of Covid
01:54
Takeaways are giving substandard food at very high prices and you sort of think it doesn't feel like a fair value exchange
02:02
So we want to have a business where people come in that on a Friday night a family of four might come and order
02:08
And they'll be fed for £20
02:11
How many other places like McDonald's, KFC or anything? You can't feed a family of four for £20
02:15
So right now the chip shop trade itself is still probably one of the more
02:21
Affordable takeaways for a lot of families
02:24
In terms of doing the food, yeah, it's just good quality food. We use one of the best fish around potatoes again
02:30
We're using one of the best potatoes around
02:34
I'll always go back to this. We haven't reinvented anything. It's just good quality food at good quality prices
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