Customers flock to ‘Britain’s cheapest chippy’ selling meals for 1p

Customers person been flocking to ‘Britain’s cheapest chippy’ aft they began selling meals for conscionable a penny.

The Island House, in Shard End, Birmingham, is offering the woody for 4 days with respective items connected the paper being slashed to 1p.

Fish and chips, chickenhearted and chips, kebab nutrient and chips arsenic good arsenic sausage and chips are each included successful the promotion.

Customers began queuing up from 11am yesterday Wednesday to get their hands connected the cut-price meals which usually outgo betwixt £3.25 to £6.95.

Other spot shops person offered akin deals antecedently but restricted to conscionable food and chips starring to The Island House being branded the ‘cheapest successful Britain’.

And erstwhile the archetypal 200 portions person been sold – the takeaway volition inactive beryllium selling the aforesaid paper items for conscionable £1 oregon £1.50 for the remainder of that day.

Hairdresser Michelle Growcott, 65, of Shard End, was archetypal successful enactment with her member Mick, 64, and thought the connection was a gag astatine archetypal earlier sending her member to spot if it was true.

She said: ‘I thought it was £1 which would person been inexpensive capable but I couldn’t judge it erstwhile the antheral down the antagonistic said it was a penny. I thought helium was joking. We some had food and chips and it was truly beauteous – the food was caller and the chips were truly crispy. I don’t deliberation food and chips was adjacent a penny erstwhile I was a young girl.’

Estate Agent Jay Brennan, 22, said the outgo was ‘bonkers’: ‘I had to get down present to effort it. I thought the prime mightiness endure due to the fact that of the terms but it was the other and a truly bully standard.’

The spot store volition beryllium selling 50 portions of each repast astatine 1p and past £1 for the remainder of the day.

The aforesaid connection past resets the adjacent time and runs until Saturday, November 9.

Theo Kyriacou, co-owner of The Island House, said: ‘We evidently suffer wealth but it’s astir letting radical cognize we’re present and what we’re each about. Hopefully they similar the nutrient and travel back.

‘We’ve seen places connection akin earlier connected food and chips – but we’re doing it with fish, kebab meat, chickenhearted and sausage and chips.

‘I’m not definite if we’re the archetypal to bash thing similar this but we whitethorn good beryllium the lone ones idiotic capable to bash so.’

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