It’s a From Zero to Hero plus your National Fish & Chip Day Pictures
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ell, the seventh NEODA National Fish & Chip Day certainly went well this year. Despite uncertainty with ever increasing prices shops celebrated in style. Neoda also organised roadshows in Wales, Scotland and England. Chippy Chat Editor Austen Dack helped them to organise one in Cambridge too where they gave a way over 500 portions of fish and chips(see pages 36-37). With headline sponsorship from both Seafood from Norway and Blakemans and support from across the industry too (with both financial and staff donations for the day) the resulting PR once again gave us all a huge boost. If it wasn’t enough celebrating National Fish & Chip Day (May 27th) by giving away half price chips in this climate, one South Wales shop went one step further. The Award Winning Zero Plus Fish Bar in Cardiff broke the World Record for wrapping five bags of chips live on TV. Owner Zohaib Hussain said to Chippy Chat “We wanted to do something that will shine a light on Cardiff, and also give our customers a great offer too. The challenge was a difficult one as you have to portion up 5 bags of 350-gram chips and wrap them all in at least two pieces of paper.” Zohaib managed to do it in 40 seconds smashing the old record standing at 44 seconds, even with the added pressure of doing it on National Fish and Chip Day. Helping Zohaib on the day was his longstanding potato supplier R&M Potatoes. Zohaib uses the Famous Black No1 Markies supplied to R&M Potatoes by Isle of Ely Produce and grown exclusively by A L Lee Farming Company in Cambridgeshire. Russell from R&M said “We have been supplying Zero Plus Fish Bar for many years and they always ask for the best potatoes available. Black No1 Markies are a premium consistent chipping potato and so we send them to Zohaib. We are proud of him grabbing the new record”
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Chippy Chat & Fast Food Magazine • June 2022
Chippy Chat & Fast Food Magazine • June 2022
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