Walking through Waterlooville earlier this week I noticed that Blinkers Cafe / The Butler’s Pantry had closed. On further inspection I noticed that the building was for sale.
The shop, first floor flat, and garage is a snip at £325,000 for the freehold. The annual rates are £16,000 per annum.
Blinking hell!!
Groan! :)
Tea’s off then!!!xxx
I have a camping stove if you’d like to borrow it Deborah?
Deborah Thake
Those rates are appalling. How can anyone make any profit?
Yes, that’s lots of cups of coffee to sell to cover the rates!
Steve Makka we could always open up a shop… (NOT) Lol x
Is there going to be anything left?
Good question, answers on the back of a postcard please!
The rates work out at £43.95 per day on a seven day a week basis, excluding Christmas. If a coffee is £2.00, 34p is VAT and costs of ingredients e.g. coffee, milk, coffee machine, sugar, cups etc only around 50p that leaves £1.12, so that’s 39 coffee’s to pay the rates, before any other costs like paying the staff!!
The current owner has said that the hairdressers round in Wellington way is going to buy it. Doing hairdressing at the front and dog grooming at the back of the premises. That’ll be interesting!!
Whatever you don’t get the two mistaken. You’d come out with your nails clipped and your anal glands squeezed.
Lol Ben, poodle perm anyone??
Sounds good my glands have been giving me gyp!
Diane Holloway it’s not the eighties anymore……
About Waterlooville you’re on your own there……….. :)