How is Baileys Cheese and Charcuterie three months after opening?

Blackpool Gazette

Baileys Cheese and Charcuterie opened in Blackpool in August and three months later the Gazette went to check in and see how the business was doing.  The co owner David Bailey said: "It's gone really, really well, from strength to strength."

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00:00Yeah, so I'm David Bailey, one of the co-owners of Bailey's Cheese and Charcuterie here on

00:14Clifton Street in Blackpool.

00:16So this opened in August, August or September?

00:20Yeah, we opened in August this year and it's really going well, going from strength to

00:27strength.

00:28A lot of local business, which is what we really were hoping we would get and we have

00:34got it.

00:35Can you tell me about the launch event and the wine event that you've hosted here?

00:41Yeah, so we did a pre-launch back in August and it went really well, a lot of social media

00:51content and a lot of people on the back of that came in within the first couple of weeks

01:00and they really enjoyed it.

01:02Last week we did a cheese and wine tasting evening, which also was a sell out and people

01:09really enjoyed it and they're already asking when the next one is, which is going to be

01:13early part of 2025.

01:17So you've had lots of good feedback from customers and stuff.

01:22Yeah.

01:23What's been the most popular product or food you've been selling during the pre-launch?

01:29Our most popular product is the artisan cheeses because you can't buy them anywhere else in

01:36Blackpool and for the food side is our cheese and charcuterie boards or our cheese tasting

01:43boards so people can try some of those artisan cheeses and people are loving them and we're

01:49getting really positive feedback back at them.

01:52Yeah.

01:53So you talked about the stuff that's not sold at supermarkets, so how does this tip out

02:00all the body of paper from supermarkets and so on?

02:04Our products, we stock 99% of them you won't find in any supermarket because they're all

02:11artisans, small business, they don't really deal with supermarkets, it's gins we've got

02:19from Penritham in Preston and again they're just a micro distillery, they don't deal with

02:26anybody else in this area.

02:33So recently the business has done an article on different empty donut shops and businesses

02:39closing and stuff like that, does this give you any insight?

02:45Yeah the empty shop situation on Clifton Street, 99% of them are already filled, there's a

02:51few empty ones, one has just moved to a new location, the other one, the whole building

02:56has been sold so it's going to be changing hands with new owners very soon so I'm not

03:01really concerned about the empty shop situation in Blackpool or on Clifton Street itself.

03:09Can you tell me a little bit about your future plans for the business?

03:19Well it carries on growing the way it is, we'll be hopefully employing staff soon, we've

03:28got ones to do more of the cheese and wine tasting evenings in the future.

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