00:00It's Bradley from the Nippy Chippy in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.
00:04We made a post recently about price changes, mainly due to the fish.
00:09Not really anything else has gone up, but the fish has gone up for three months since Christmas, 62.5%.
00:15And that's made a massive hit on us. We've been absorbing it for the past three months.
00:20We haven't touched our pricing. It was £10.30 for a fish and chips, but now it's gone up to £12.50.
00:26When you're putting up the prices a little bit, it's not really too much of a worry.
00:29Sometimes customers come in, they've got exact money, but you let them off so that they know for next time.
00:34But this time it's gone up £2.20.
00:37So it's a big price increase that customers obviously start to notice.
00:42So far we've had really good feedback with customers.
00:44They've said, why don't you explain what's happened?
00:47They've said you've got to do what you've got to do really.
00:49When it's gone up £2.20, obviously I can understand when I tell them the price that they're a bit shocked sometimes.
00:54But yeah, it's hard for everyone at the minute.
00:58It's not just obviously businesses. I'm not going on just about businesses. It's hard for everyone.
01:02Everyone's got to pay the price now really.
01:04But yeah, it's all obviously to do with the recent changes in the government of changing the fishing quotas.
01:10So it's gone down quite drastically from what we're allowed to fish now for cod and haddock.
01:16But obviously as a nation we eat lots of cod and haddock so I'm sure it will still have the supply of it.
01:22It'll just be that we're going to be paying a lot more than what we was previously paying for it.
01:26Especially on the seaside, obviously last season it was paying £12.50 to £15 for fish and chips anyway.
01:31Obviously it's starting to get towards summer. The sun's shining.
01:34So just be prepared to start hitting that £18, £20 figure for fish and chips.
01:39Obviously we're in a big industry discussion group on Facebook with all the fish and chip managers.
01:44And I have seen a few seaside owners already start saying that we're going to be worried about what we're charging for our customers now.
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