FISH AND CHIPS EL DORADO
If you want to make a small fortune oipen a fyied fish and ehips shop near a Bradford mill. As in most niill towns and districts, catering for the operatives' mid-day needs is a profitable business, and the succulent fish and chip>s, bceauso of its oheapness, is always a popular disli. AVhen both father and mother and sometimes every member of the family, are ocoupied all day at the, mill, rea'dy-made meals are liecessary, and although all the up-to-date mills have canteens to, meet this necessity the operatives often .prefer ihe ever popular three-pennywortli of fish and chips. Some of the, orders sent out frorn the mills are ahiazing. Here is one with a total cost of £2 5s: Fish and a penn'orth, 76 times; fislieake and a pehn'orth, 30 times ; two fish, 24 times; two penn'orths, 6 times. No1 wonder these fried fish shap proprietors are able to get fonr-figure offers for their businesses, when they decide to go into quiet retiremcnt at Morecamhe or Blackpool.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MEX19281128.2.14
Bibliographic details
Marlborough Express, Volume LXII, Issue 280, 28 November 1928, Page 3
Word Count
172FISH AND CHIPS EL DORADO Marlborough Express, Volume LXII, Issue 280, 28 November 1928, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Marlborough Express. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in