FISH AND CHIPS EL DORADO
If you want to make a small fortune open a fried fish and chips shop near a Bradford mill. As in most, mill towns and districts, catering for the operatives’ midday needs is a profitable business, and the succulent fish and chips, because of its cheapness, is always a- popular dish. When both father and mother and sometimes every member of the family'are occupied, all day a£ Ihe mill, ready-made meals are necessary, and although all the up-to-date mills have canteens to meet this necessity the operatives often prefer (he ever-popular ihreepennyworth of fish and clr.ps. Some of the orders sent out from the mills ere amazing. Here is one with a total cost, of £2 ss; Fish and a penn'orth, 76 times; fishcake and a penn'orth, 50 times; two fish. 24 times; two penn’orths, 6 times. No wonder these fried fish shop proprietors arc able to get ‘four-figure offers for their businesses when they decide to go into quiet retirement at. Jlorocambe or Blackpool.
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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 10
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170FISH AND CHIPS EL DORADO Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 10
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