Extremely Well Presented Cafe And Gifts Business For Sale

Business description

HISTORY

• Established as a café 9 years ago
• Acquired by the vendor over 4 years ago
• Significant improvements made by the vendor
• Good client base now firmly established, generating circa £1,300 per week in the café and circa £250 per week in gifts
• Now offered for sale with 2 parking spaces and in excellent order both inside and out

REASON FOR SALE

• The business is only now being reluctantly offered for sale as the vendor wishes to pursue an alternative unrelated business venture

PRODUCTS

• Superb coffee with excellent local reputation
• Breakfast and lunches with vegetarian options
• Daily specials board with gluten free option
• Sandwiches, baguettes and Panini’s
• Jacket potatoes and Salads
• Full range of soft drinks and non alcoholic beverages

CUSTOMERS

• Busy breakfast trade
• Strong regular repeat trade from local residents
• Good tourist trade as next to town’s main car park
• Some retail sales

STRENGTHS

• Very well established business which has been trading for over 9 years
• Excellent location adjacent to the town’s main car park
• High footfall levels
• Consistently profitable with predictable weekly takings
• Above industry average gross profits of circa 78%
• All fixtures and fittings are included within the consideration price





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An Energy Performance Certificate will be made available upon request of further details where one is required for the business premises

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Location:

• The business is ideally located adjacent to the town’s main car park with significantly high passing footfall levels

Premises details:

• Mid terraced lock up premises which are in excellent order throughout and which briefly comprise:
o Centre entry door into the café area with 20 covers inside and 5 outside
o Serve over counter with side refrigerated cake display
o Single door soft drinks chiller
o Rear coffee machine
o Microwave, panini grill
o Fan assisted oven
o Hot savoury display
o 4 slice toaster
o Blender for milk shakes
o Dishwasher
o Ice machine
o Hot plate
o Stainless steel fridge and freezer
o Under stairs storage with tall fridge and chest freezer
o Rear wall mounted storage
o Stairs up to first floor with single w/c
o Side stores with chest freezer
o Rear sectioned off office area
o 2 centre gondola gift displays
o Glass display cabinets
o Wall mounted displays
o Greetings card rack and till
o There is a tiled floor on the ground floor and laminated flooring in the gift section
o The ceiling has spot lights throughout and a single ceiling fan in the café

Business Operation

Expansion potential:

• This is clearly already a successful business, it does however, still offer excellent potential to increase both sales and profits in the future by:
1. Opening earlier in the mornings to increase the breakfast trade
2. Do outside catering events such as weddings, wakes and christenings
3. Prepare sandwiches etc for orders from local factories, offices etc
4. Have a business web site, especially if outside catering events are carried out

Trading hours:

• Mon-Sat: 9am to 5pm
• Sun: 11am – 4pm

Employees:

vendor full time with 2 part time staff members

Years established:

9