Cafe In Central Brighton Business Centre For Sale

Business description

A Fantastic opportunity to purchase a modern cafe Located in a trendy Brighton business enterprise zone.
This busy Brighton business centre has circa 100 companies and this is the only cafe/coffee shop/meeting place in the centre.

You will have an amazing opportunity to add your personality to a business with massive potential.

You are buying a cafe that serves the whole building for meetings, lunches, coffee's and breakfasts as well as customers from outside.

There is a good atmosphere, great natural light, a seating mix of leather coffee shop style easy chairs for chatting and reading the paper, to chairs at tables ideal for laptops taking advantage of the WiFi and can easily seat 30+.

You are buying a cafe with great potential to increase the takeaway, delivery and catering business as well as the eat-in trade.

Do you have vision, want to own a successful business and are looking for a venture to focus on ? If so contact us as this could be the investment that you are looking for.

The business has been trading for the past 18 months and has a 12 month rent free period so you will be in a brilliant position to establish your personality and ownership and get the cafe just how you want it over the next year.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

New England House is owned by the local authority and units in the building are generally let on 3 year leases. The cafe has 18 months to run on its current lease and there are 12 months of the initial rent free period left. The longest serving tenant in the building has been here for over 20 years. New businesses continue to move in regularly and do so on 3 year leases.

Location:

The cafe is located in New England House, an established business centre set right in the middle of the huge new development in central Brighton, the New England Quarter. There are currently approximately 500 people working in New England House in almost 100 business ranging in size from single person operations up to international companies employing 100 plus staff. When completed, the New England Quarter development will completely re-energise the area and plans are also in place to redevelop the adjoining London Road shopping area.

Other information

Expansion potential:

The New England Quarter development will completely re-energise this area. This will provide opportunities to increase the cafe's takeaway, delivery and catering potential. New England House currently has a waiting list of almost 100 business wanting to move in. April/May will see to 2 major new businesses move in with an additional 60-70 staff.

Competition / Market:

There are no other cafes in New England House and the cafe attracts customers from surrounding businesses as well as from within the building itself. Including a main shopping street there are 4 cafes and 3 sandwich takeaways nearby.

Support & training:

Handover support around suppliers, equipment etc and introductions to existing clients within the building along with basic training on equipment if required.

Reasons for selling:

The owner has other business interests and is unable to devote time to run the cafe to enable it to achieve its full potential. The business could benefit greatly from having an owner operator able to run the cafe full time or with a partner.

Trading hours:

8am to 4pm Monday to Friday

Furniture / Fixtures value:

£10,000

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