Catering Service And Sandwich Bar For Sale

Business description

Offer Invited

Thriving and Popular Delicatessen, Catering Service and Sandwich Bar situated in a Prime Retail Location

Originally founded 33 years ago, this business specialises in selling cold meats, cooked on the premises and other assorted deli products. It is a unique establishment in its area and servicing the public with a great variety of meats, including specialities such as salt beef and carvery etc.

On the premises there's a sandwich bar serving a variety of sandwiches and bagels with a wide selection of delicious fillings. The sandwich bar is open all day and is ideal for breakfast or lunches with a choice of hot and cold drinks also being served to accompany the vast selection of food on offer.

The delicatessan and sandwich bar prepares a selection of takeaway food and and offers an outside catering service for offices that includes buffet lunches, corporate food and food for weddings, christenings, birthdays and funerals.

In what can be a fairly competitive industry, this business is experiencing continuing growth, fuelled by its dedication to quality products, old fashioned services and its high levels of attention to quality. This business offers a very personal and courteous service, with customer satisfaction – which is its prime objective.

With turnover of approximately £208,000 per annum, this is an excellent opportunity to acquire a well-established business highly regarded for its quality products and customer service and a steadily increasing and loyal customer base.

Equipment:

The business comes with four re-frigerated display units, rear displays, an upstairs oven, freezer and steel food prep areas.

Customer Service:

This business does everything possible to enhance its excellent name and has earned a considerable reputation for the best variety of cold meats and specialist deli products,

Key Strengths:

Built on solid foundations and prudent management, this business has an excellent reputation for friendly and helpful service and excellent products. It has an established, diverse customer base, which, with little or no recent effort is steadily growing. Not surprisingly this business can claim high levels of customer satisfaction.

This business has an experienced, dedicated and loyal workforce. Fully operational and using traditional recipes it is considered to be very much a local supplier and supported as such by the trade.

Property information

Location:

This business operates from a superb location in central Romford, within a popular, secure arcade, a walk through from the high street. The premises are spacious and have been fitted to an exceptionally high standard, with an attractive shop front, plus an upstairs food preparation area and storage. The rent is £7,000 per quarter inc VAT and service charges.

Other information

Expansion potential:

There is an outstanding opportunity to build on the existing business levels and customer base of this business. With a strong demand for this business's products, combined with a capacity to increase turnover, a new owner contributing fresh ideas, will have every advantage of building on an excellent platform - particularly in the areas of outside deliveries and catering. This business is ideally placed to take advantage of the passing trade from the nearby market.

Key Opportunities:

This business undertakes little advertising. It could benefit from launching a website with the possibility for clients to place orders on line. A wide-ranging site promoting the full range of products would help to raise the profile of the business considerably within an increasingly Internet friendly customer base.

Competition / Market:

Well established, this business has little need of advertising benefiting greatly from the most effective form of marketing available, word of mouth recommendation

Support & training:

The current owner will provide all necessary training and handover to ensure a smooth transfer of the business to new Owners.

Reasons for selling:

The current owner is keen to pursue other business ventures.

Trading hours:

Monday – Saturday 7.00 am – 4.00 pm