Customer Moira Lyons was pleased with her 1p meal (Picture: SWNS)
Customers have been flocking to ‘Britain’s cheapest chippy’ after they began selling meals for just a penny.
The Island House, in Shard End, Birmingham, is offering the deal for four days with several items on the menu being slashed to 1p.
Fish and chips, chicken and chips, kebab meat and chips as well as sausage and chips are all included in the promotion.
Customers began queuing up from 11am yesterday Wednesday to get their hands on the cut-price meals which usually cost between £3.25 to £6.95.
Other chip shops have offered similar deals previously but restricted to just fish and chips leading to The Island House being branded the ‘cheapest in Britain’.
And when the first 200 portions have been sold – the takeaway will still be selling the same menu items for just £1 or £1.50 for the rest of that day.
Customers at the chippy were pleased with their luck (Picture: SWNS)
The fish was ‘fresh’ and the chips were crispy, Michelle Growcott said (Picture: SWNS)
Hairdresser Michelle Growcott, 65, of Shard End, was first in line with her brother Mick, 64, and thought the offer was a joke at first before sending her brother to see if it was true.
She said: ‘I thought it was £1 which would have been cheap enough but I couldn’t believe it when the man behind the counter said it was a penny. I thought he was joking. We both had fish and chips and it was really lovely – the fish was fresh and the chips were really crispy. I don’t think fish and chips was even a penny when I was a young girl.’
Estate Agent Jay Brennan, 22, said the cost was ‘bonkers’: ‘I had to get down here to try it. I thought the quality might suffer because of the price but it was the opposite and a really good standard.’
Customers lined up around the block to get a cheap meal (Picture: SWNS)
Sausages were also available to purchase (Picture: SWNS)
The chip shop will be selling 50 portions of each meal at 1p and then £1 for the rest of the day.
The same offer then resets the next day and runs until Saturday, November 9.
Theo Kyriacou, co-owner of The Island House, said: ‘We obviously lose money but it’s about letting people know we’re here and what we’re all about. Hopefully they like the food and come back.
‘We’ve seen places offer similar before on fish and chips – but we’re doing it with fish, kebab meat, chicken and sausage and chips.
‘I’m not sure if we’re the first to do anything like this but we may well be the only ones idiotic enough to do so.’
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