Attractive Cafe Tearoom And Bistro In Cheddar For Sale

Business description

• Located in busy thoroughfare
• equally suitable as café/tea room/bistro
• established and profitable
• opportunity to extend hours
• ideal for a committed couple
• internal inspection recommended

Location:
The business is situated in union street, in the heart of cheddar’s main commercial centre.

Business:
This attractively presented lock up licensed café is nicely located in the town centre and benefits from an all year round trade. Offering hearty breakfasts, coffee and cake, sandwiches and jacket potatoes, home cooked lunchtime specials, including sunday roasts, regular tapas evenings and theme nights, the premises also retain a full music licence thereby making it popular with special interest groups. This business, which holds a category 5 hygiene certificate, has much to offer to a committed couple for a very modest investment and is highly recommended.

Years established:
We understand that a café has traded from the site for c 14 years. The current owner acquired the business in march 2010, secured the alcohol and music licences and has done much to improve the day to day running of the café by fine tuning the menu to maximize its appeal to the regular clientele as well as attracting other groups and appealing to the visitor market.

Trade:
Please note that if a business is vat registered, all figures exclude vat.
Sales of £41,418 were reported for the year ended 31 march 2011. A gross profit margin of 63.2% was achieved, which produced an abridged profit of £10,886 after payment of wages of £2,164.

Reason for sale:
The vendor is planning to move away from the area.

Staff:
The vendor has operated the business with only limited assistance. 2 teenagers have worked on saturdays on casual contracts and a local lady has been happy to work occasionally as required.

Opening hours:
Tuesday to sunday: 8.00am to 4.00pm
Monday: closed

Tapas evenings and theme nights are offered periodically commencing at 7pm on fridays and saturdays.

The full music licence is available between 6pm and 10.30pm.

The alcohol licence operates from 10am to 11pm sunday to thursday and from 10am to 12 midnight on fridays and saturdays

For a purchaser preferring an unlicenced pramises the alcohol licence could simply be allowed to lapse

Business premises:
(all sizes are approximate & should be considered 'nominal'.)
The lock up café occupies part of the ground floor of a larger detached property laid out over 2 floors under a pitched and tiled roof. The café benefits from a double window set in a wooden frame to the front elevation with a matching glazed front door recessed and centrally set. The door opens into:

Main dining area (3.9m x 5.9m):
• fitted bamboo roller blind to main front window
• tall and most attractive tecfriggo bottle/confectionery chiller unit in smaller front bay window
• upvc double glazed window to rear right hand side also with fitted window blind
• wood effect vinyl floor covering
• overhead cooling fan
• wall lights
• combination of rectangular and circular dining tables arranged to provide 20 internal covers
• 2 x circular wrought iron tables with matching chairs are used to provide 6 external covers
• child’s high chair
• wooden wall mounted shelving unit for bottle display
• small freestanding wooden/rattan cupboard with further glass fronted wooden unit to side with casio electric till and epos drawer
• 2 large menu blackboards
• 2 small wooden stools
• 4 wall mirrors
• wall mounted storage radiator

Kitchen (3.9m x 1.8m):
• obscure glazed window to side elevation
• wood block flooring
• stainless steel sink unit with single cupboard under and tiled splash back
• roll edged work surface with storage unit below, tiled splash back and wooden shelving over
• further wall mounted open storage units
• wall mounted circular ceramic wash basin with electric water heater over
• electrolux double fan oven with ceramic hob
• wall mounted parry salamander grill
• slimline dishwasher
• deep fat fryer
• commercial toaster
• microwave oven
• larder fridge
• wall mounted fire extinguisher
• an open doorway leads to:

Annexe (1.7m x 1.9m):
• non slip floor surface
• a locked door interconnects with the part of the property occupied by the landlord
• miko mini 3 coffee machine
• chest freezer
• upright fridge freezer
• hotpoint upright fridge
• high level wooden storage shelves
• insect killer

Note:
Where items of equipment and appliances are mentioned, no warranty is given or implied as to their operational condition.

Private accommodation:
(all sizes are approximate & should be considered 'nominal'.)
None

Outside:
There is space for one vehicle to be parked off road to the side of the premises. Cheddar is well served by public car parks and there is a degree of free short term parking in the vicinity on a first come first served basis.

Lease terms:
The current lease runs to september 2012 but the vendor has given the necessary notice to the landlord to renew the lease, which has a shop front and internal repairing and insuring responsibility (25% of insurance premium for building as a whole c £125 pa), for a further 4 years. Rent of £100 per week is currently payable and we anticipate that this will remain largely unchanged at renewal.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold