Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
Jun 6th 2008, 4:29 pm
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Jun 7th 2008, 4:00 am
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Re: Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
I also had a battered prawn but it was nothing special.I always enjoyed his chips'n'haggis,(his haggis was from robs in dandenong, which is about the best haggis ave tasted, makes me laugh though, you have to come all the way to oz for a good haggis) and the portion was lge, although admittadly i did find it a tad expensive
Jun 7th 2008, 4:03 am
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Re: Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
Sorry mate, I disagree. Every time we or people we know went in there his shop was empty.
We tried his fish and chips and they were no different to standard ozzie fish and chips - ie reheated frozen chips and tiny fish with no guts to them. Yet he charged double the price an ozzie shop would charge for the same disappointing experience.
Plus he was in Dandenong and to run a fish and chip shop you can't rely on the odd few Brits travelling from all across Victoria, you need regular weekly local and passing trade. So he should have been somewhere like Mornington where there is a massive British population for his "British Fish and Chips" marketing (even if the product didn't live up to the name....).
So in answer to the OP - if you want to open a fish and chip shop in Perth - put it in an area where there is a predominant British population, and make sure its twice as good as the ozzie fish and chips. This means serving chunky large pieces of fish and potatos cut up in your shop, not pre-frozen.
Buzzy
We tried his fish and chips and they were no different to standard ozzie fish and chips - ie reheated frozen chips and tiny fish with no guts to them. Yet he charged double the price an ozzie shop would charge for the same disappointing experience.
Plus he was in Dandenong and to run a fish and chip shop you can't rely on the odd few Brits travelling from all across Victoria, you need regular weekly local and passing trade. So he should have been somewhere like Mornington where there is a massive British population for his "British Fish and Chips" marketing (even if the product didn't live up to the name....).
So in answer to the OP - if you want to open a fish and chip shop in Perth - put it in an area where there is a predominant British population, and make sure its twice as good as the ozzie fish and chips. This means serving chunky large pieces of fish and potatos cut up in your shop, not pre-frozen.
Buzzy
gotta admit i wouldnt travel far for fish'n'chips, lucky he wasnt too farr away, anyway buzzy each to his own, i was in mordiallic the other day...............as i said each to his own
Jun 7th 2008, 11:02 am
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Re: Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
I had very good fish and chips today at a cafe in Flinders - best I have had since I've been in Oz.
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Jun 7th 2008, 12:00 pm
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Jun 7th 2008, 12:05 pm
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Re: Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
So in answer to the OP - if you want to open a fish and chip shop in Perth - put it in an area where there is a predominant British population, and make sure its twice as good as the ozzie fish and chips. This means serving chunky large pieces of fish and potatos cut up in your shop, not pre-frozen.
Buzzy
Buzzy
PS: U also gotta sell decent tarty pickled onions!! Crunchy ones with BITE. Not those lame sweet brown spiced things
Jun 8th 2008, 6:33 am
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Re: Thinking of opening /fish&chip shop
Not forgetting steak and kidney pudding
