Fryz would like to congratulate Alastair & Dominic Horabin and all the team at 'Seniors' at Marsh Mill, Thornton, Lancashire who were crowned 'Fish & Chip Shop of the Year' yesterday.

'Seniors' were crowned as champions after a rigorous judging process which included a customer vote, taste tests, an intense shop inspection and a presentation to a panel of industry experts.

Hanbury’s, Babbacombe, Devon, was named the second best shop in the country with Quayside, Whitby, North Yorkshire coming in third place.

Fryz made it to the second round of this years' competition. Making us one of the top three shops in our region.

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Calling all 'chip lovers'! Voting has begun in the Choice Chip Awards and Fryz has been included. Vote here: http://chips.lovepotatoes.co.uk/vote/chip-shops/vote?id=69 or pick up a voting form at Fryz.

The Awards are searching for the UK’s tastiest chip shop chips, voted by you - the nation’s chip lovers. If you believe the tastiest chips can be found at Fryz then please show your appreciation by voting for us in the Choice Chip Awards 'Best Chippy Chips' category.

The winner will be announced as part of Chip Week in February.

Thanks for your support.

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We take fish seriously at Fryz. Therefore, we are proud to publish our fish sourcing policy which summaries all the things we think about when we source and sell fish for our menu.

The policy is available by clicking "Responsibly Sourced Fish" at the top of any page on the Fryz website or by visiting www.fryz.co.uk/fish.

Posted at 08:11 PM | Permalink |

We have updated our Fish Menu in the shop to include current IUCN Red List status for the species of fish we sell. The IUCN Red List provides conservation status information using the following categories: Least Concern; Near Threatened; Vulnerable; Endangered; Critically Endangered; Extinct in the Wild; Extinct.

We do not sell fish species whose IUCN Red List status is less than Vulnerable. Current IUCN Red List status for the species we sell are as follows:

• Cod (Gadus morhua): Vulnerable;
• Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus): Vulnerable;
• Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa): Least Concern;
• Rock (Squalus acanthias): Vulnerable;
• Scampi (Nephrops norvegicus): Least Concern.

Recall, we stopped selling Skate (Dipturus batis) in June 2008 when we became fully enlightened to it's IUCN Red List status: Critically Endangered:

Posted at 09:45 PM | Permalink |

Holiday opening hours for Fryz are as follows:

• Saturday 24th December - 11:00-19:00
• Monday 26th December - Closed
• Tuesday 27th December - Closed
• Wednesday 28th December - 11:00-21:30
• Thursday 29th December - 11:00-21:30
• Friday 30th December - 11:00-21:30
• Saturday 31st December - 11:00-19:00
• Monday 2nd January - 11:00-21:30

Then business as usual.

Happy Christmas from everyone at Fryz.

Posted at 10:21 PM | Permalink |

Some of the best potatoes in the country are grown in the soil of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. Therefore, Fryz is proud to use only locally sourced potatoes for our award winning chips.

Now, as well as being displayed in the shop, you can keep up to date with where our potatoes are sourced from by looking at our regularly updated interactive map at http://www.fryz.co.uk/spuds. The source of potatoes we are currently using is marked in green.

Posted at 10:57 AM | Permalink |

Astute customers may have noticed something on the counter at Fryz which has been updated each month since August. This summer we set ourselves a simple self-imposed sustainability target for 2011 - to spread the fish we sell more evenly over the species we offer. We wanted to see if our customers were able to respond to call to "try something different next time you have fish and chips".

As Cod is the most popular species that sell, we set ourselves a target that Cod should be 65% of all fish products we sell by the end of 2011. Our progress is as follows:

• August: 73% of all fish sold was Cod;
• September: 69% of all fish sold was Cod;
• October: 68% of all fish sold was Cod.

As you can see, customers have responded really well and have reduced the statistic by 5 percentage points. Well done and keep up the good work! The November result will be up in the shop very soon, and stay tuned to see if we hit our 2011 target.

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