End of Fish & Chips shops?

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According to the BBC, some are facing a drop of 30% in custom and face 'extinction'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-62650572

Personally, I wouldn't buy a meal from one nowadays, a small haddock and chips costs £8.50, 1/4 of my weekly shop (live alone).

I know from previous threads they tend to be cheaper in the North of England, but even so all of them are having to pay more for oil, fish & spuds.

Have any closed down near you?

Still doing a roaring trade around here. I live fairly rurally and we don't have many takeaway options so most chippys do pizza and kebabs too.

One has closed near me recently.

We love a bit of fish and chips but it's gone up so much in price that we hardly get it anymore.

It's a simple equation - no customers, business goes down.

However - they will always reappear once things look better economically. Look at pubs - very hard businesses to run at the best of time, close in droves during bad economic times, almost always reopen almost immediately under new ownership.

If me and my dd have fish and chips it cost £17 which is far too much for a takeaway on our budget. It's a real shame tbh but now if we need a quick takeaway on the way home or can't be bothered to cook we go to McDonald's.

Not round here .... Friday chippy tea is the law.

They all do a roaring trade where I live.

Yes a poncy middle class one has closed near us, it's no great loss, the run of the mill/ ordinary chippies round here are much nicer

A large cod and chips is almost £15 where we live, it's no longer the cheap takeaway it once was.

Cod and chips is about £10 here.

• curry sauce at £2-3 a pot

I normally share that with my son and my daughter only eats chips at about £3 a bag.

it’s not as cheap as it was but ours is always packed.

Fish and chips is expensive if you get fish and chips

A delicious sausage with questionable meat content is very cheap still

We go to the fish and chips shop maybe once every couple of months and it's always busy. We do live rurally though and there isn't a lot of choice. It won't be the end of chippies near us as we are close to the coast, so they're coming out of our ears 😂

We had them at the seaside a couple of weeks ago (NE coast) for £8.50 - the portion was large enough for DH and I to share. No idea what they cost at home because my waistline won't stand them as more than a very rare treat!

I fucking love a chippy. But here is £12.50 for cod and chips. We can't afford it as much as we used to.

Most of them round here are kebab shops as well, so I can see them maybe reducing amount of fish they order in, but will probably still keep running.

I do love a bit of fish and chips but to be fair I only get it rarely

My local one is actually tight as fuck with their portion size too! My partner went to it the other day and got a large fish and chips…. This was the portion. Bit of a joke as that’s a large fish.

yes he sent me the picture complaining 🤣

I normally go to the one in the next village that has a decent portion size.

Haven’t closed down, all seem to be doing a roaring trade but it’s tourist season. Struggles start when they go home. Fish and chips used to be a monthly payday treat £30 ish for the family. It’s nearly double that now £50 ish and I can’t afford it so I buy Aldis nicer beer battered haddock and homemade tartar sauce and have that instead costs about £15 ish with sides etc and it still feels like a treat.

Our local one does what essentially half a fish and chips with any side and its £4 amazing value and still a very decent portion!

Our local one has become a lot more expensive but is still a tasty takeaway meal when we don't want to cook and fancy a treat. We've completely stopped ordering any other type of takeaway other than occasional trips to the chippy as it's still a lot cheaper than Dominos/Chinese/Indian. I'm more worried for pubs and restaurants as where once upon a time we'd have said "let's go to the pub for dinner" we're now more likely to say "let's go to the chippy."

What we have noticed though is the local McDonald's is ridiculously busy nowadays, there's always a queue out the door nomatter what time we drive past where there never was before so I think a lot of people are having that as a treat rather than more expensive options.

They might need to diversify to survive - gone are the days when fish and chips was the staple takeaway - they perhaps need to think about offering other takeaway items alongside.

Not the case by me either. Our most popular Chippy is that great it has 5 outlets around our small city. Everyone loves a chippy tea in the midlands!

Local chippy had people queuing outside as always on Friday night. They are exceptionally good though, the second nearest one is never that busy.

We have 3 near us, the nicest one now charges just over £10 for fish and chips. Don't mind it if you are near the seaside but we couldn't be further away! If we went to the chippy, it would cost us around £30/35 with drinks, mushy peas, a sausge for DD etc which is nearly half of our weekly food shop!

I dont eat fish and chip shop chips whilst I love them they do not love me but DH went to ours the the other day for him, mil and two kids and it was nearly £50 including 4 cans of coke. It's 13.95 for cod and chips. It's a lot for a quick Friday night dinner like it used to be and the price of fish is only going to go up.

I was shocked recently when I sent DS1 to get fish and chips for himself. I went to give him a tenner, found I only had 20s and asked for the change, expecting a ten pound note plus some change.

It was just shy of £12.00. And the chips were inedible (the entire family agreed on that and DH is very tolerant when it came to chips).

We go every Friday. Costs us £40 for 4 and it's delicious

It’s my preferred takeaway so I hope the one around the corner doesn’t close. I didn’t get one that often anyway but I now buy fewer portions to share between more people, otherwise the cost would be too much.

Our local one has queues out the door on a Friday and Saturday night