Polish Restaurant - Polski Kuchnia in the Greater Manchester area

its true of any new business yes, but there is a significant discrepancy between the failure of new restaurants and other lower risk new business.



thank god you do not work as an an investment analyst, because you 'know' it will do well, then obviously it must.

What sort of 'investment analyst' are you referring to ?

You mean one who works in a Bank ? An independent Financial Adviser or what ?

small business analyst

Thats the one called Polonium :)



Yeah .. we dont have a polish restaurant in Doncaster yet



Must have been just you then as i eat there without any complaints ....

Oh I see <s>


I have some experience too......lets leave it at that. Trust me I do happen to know a bit about it <g>

hello

I am not polish but would love to visit a polish restuarant in manchester.

Noimmigration is quite correct in terms of the risks associated with opeing any restaurant/take away business. The overheads are huge in relation to the return and its just about one of the most competitive markets out there, add that to staffing issues and the risks are just not worth it in my opinion.

Polish food works well in Poland as the local produce is second to none and super cheap, where will any UK based Polish restaurant be able to source the fresh produce required to make the meals come from without pushing the GP deeper into the red.

Best of luck though.

Weve alwasy got Gordon Ramsay to save the day, go'on Gordon.

Just to be frank wih you Fusar, polish people don't tend to eat in resteurants, especially the polish migrating to work in the UK. A polish resteurant targeting the British is a different story, that's what i'm thinking of setting up in Cardiff. As I'm polish myself i can tell u don't cout on polish workers visiting resteurants. We're more keen on shopping for tha polish basics in polish shops where prices are still reasonably low.

Best regards and good luck

Kristof

I live in Altrincham and ate at Cafe Lech once with friends. It was a good experience, but I have to say that (as a Brit) I did not find the food that exciting, I don't know if this is just Cafe Lech. But I have visited Poland and I think that what they served was fairly similar to what I got in Poland. Perhaps this needs to be considered if you want to keep non-Poles visiting your restaurant.

I am sorry to see that Cafe Lech has shut, I can easily believe that rent/rates will have been a problem in Altrincham. However - I think the name was a bad choice too - I have nothing against Lech Walensa, but a "Lech" in English is a name given to certain people who are sexually perverse - Lecherous. So it was not a good name to attract locals!

We are always willing to try new restaurants, but there are a lot in Altrincham, so you need to work hard to keep people coming after the initial newness has worn off.

Good Luck

Nick

I'm from Manchester and went to Cafe Lech a couple of times - I have also been to the Polish Church in Rusholme for food and the Polish Circle Social Club in Cheetham Hill - one thing is that i'm not Polish! (My BF is though!)
One thing that Gtr Manchester is lacking is a good inexpensive Polish restaurant - Cafe Lech was too expensive - it was about £10 each for Bigos and Pierogi!! The final bill for me and my BF was £40 and that was for 2 starters, 2 mains, a polish beer and a diet coke! We weren't impressed... if you're going to open a place i would advise that you make it more affordable so people would go there more often. (we only went to cafe lech twice because we couldn't afford to go more often - otherwise we would have been there at least once a week - i think this was its downfall to be honest, along with lackof advertising.)