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FREE Chip Shop Industry Open Day

Isle of Ely Produce and Chippy Chat are once again opening their doors to chip shop owners and managers on Sunday September 7th 2025! It is one of the FREE industry events of the year!

The event starts at 9.30 am at our farm in Ely, Cambridgeshire with a coffee and a chance to talk to industry colleagues. It is invaluable, not only do chip shop owners and staff find out first-hand how the potato crop is faring for 2025/26, but they also get an idea about predicted cost and quality of the crop for the year ahead for their chips supplies!

Get your FREE* tickets here!

Add to that lots of key suppliers will be sponsoring and/or attending on the day. In 2024 they included Pukka Pies, Middleton Foods, Premier 1 Filtration, Ceres, Drywite, Friars Pride, Preoday (Qikserve), Agrico, McWhinneys, Seafood from Norway, BD Signs, Meijer Potato UK, Panaepos, Smales, PJ Lee & Sons, JFK , Blakemans, Frymax, AL Lee Farming Company, VA Whitley, Henry Colbeck, Gills Sausages, Stokes Sauces, Oil Chef, & more.

You will watch presentations on our giant AV, with full staging, from award winning fish and chip shop owners, giving you valuable advice for your shop. Guest speakers for this event already include NFFF President Andrew Crook, NFFF National Fish & Chip Best Takeaway Award Winner Yarm Road's Will Burrell, Field to Frier winner Jamie Russo from Redcloak, Stonehaven, Jonathan France from Fish Bank, Sherburn, David & Nick Miller, from Millers Haxby plus more to be announced soon.

Please email austen@chippychat.co.uk if you would like to be a sponsor and/or exhibit on the day.

Come and mingle with friends and peers and get some exciting ideas for your shop.

We will also have Oliver Boutwood back with his Q&A sessions, Mike Neaverson's excellent summary of the crop for the year ahead plus the chance for you to try Babylon, a new chipping variety from Agrico, and lots of samples and freebies too. It’s the FREE chip shop industry event not to miss!

The event is suitable for all levels of management and also young friers too. Maximum of 3 tickets per shop. FREE refreshments will also be served.

In 2024 over 50 people stayed in Ely too for an evening meal and drinks. A chance for you all to sit and relax with industry peers. Please let us know if you intend to stay email austen@chippychat.co.uk, and we will add you to the list for the restaurant and send you hotel choices (if staying).

Tickets are FREE but a fee of £50 each will be charged to non exhibitor suppliers towards costs for the day, and to those who reserve positions but do not show up/cancel

Get your FREE tickets here!

Enjoy the Day

Austen Dack - Chippy Chat Publishing Editor