It’s time for you to vote for Britain’s favourite family chippy….
As we blogged about before, Ben Shaws soft drinks teamed up with Holland’s Pies to launch a competition looking for Britain’s Favourite Family Chippy. The deadline for entries was Friday 27th August. A team from Holland’s Pies and Ben Shaws got together to judge all the entries earlier this month and after much deliberation, three regional finalists have been selected for you to vote for.
The finalists announced in the Ben Shaws and Holland’s Pies favourite family chippy competition:
Finalist No 1 is The Fantis Family, B My Chip, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Tony Fantis first started out in the chip shop industry peeling spuds for his dad in the early 1960s. He established B My Chip three years ago and the business is certainly a family affair, with a total of six family members working in the shop.
Finalist No 2 is The Bentley Family, Corner Chippy, Cleveleys, Lancashire
The Bentley couple took on the chip shop in 2003 after Glenn, a former paint sprayer, decided he wanted a new challenge.
But it was like stepping back in time for the pair, as the premises were originally built and run as a fish and chip shop by Karen's great-grandfather James Eckersley almost 90 years ago.
Finalist No 3 is The Corbally Family, Mister C’s, Selby, Yorkshire
Mark Corbally, has run fish and chip shops for the past 30 years - for the past ten with the help of his wife, Denise, and their children Danny and Michael Horsley.
The Corbally family guards an 80-year-old secret batter recipe passed onto Mark by an old lady who gave him his first break in the chip shop industry.
Sundeep Gill, Ben Shaw’s spokesperson for the campaign said:
“Ben Shaw’s started as a family business back in 1871, so we know how important family businesses are to this country and how valued they are by their communities.”
It’s now down to the public vote to see who they want to be crowned ‘Britain’s Favourite Family Chippy 2010’. Votes can be cast at www.favouritefamilychippy.co.uk.
All votes will be counted and verified with the winner being announced in October (voting closed midnight on 1st October).
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