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Buy a takeaway or restaurant in the UK

The youngest market here at eight years average trading, and the least indebted: fewer than one in five carries a charge.

How these companies are identified

A takeaway or restaurant reaches this platform when it declares that activity to Companies House and the company itself owns the premises it trades from. No licence is claimed, because none is held on any register we carry.

Why buyers look here

Every company here owns its building, which is unusual in hospitality and changes the proposition entirely: you are buying a freehold with a trade attached rather than a lease and some equipment. Low debt across the sector means fewer charges to unwind.

What to check

• Food hygiene ratings are published by local authorities and are not reproduced here. Check them at the source.
• Six employees on average, so the owner is usually working in the business, and the trade may not survive their exit.
• Alcohol and late-night licences sit with the local authority, not on any register here.
• Eight years average trading means many have not been through a full economic cycle.

How to search

Choose Takeaways and restaurants on the search screen and narrow by town, how long the business has traded, how ownership is held, and whether the premises are traceable. Searching is free and shows the shape of each company without naming it. A report on one company costs from £4.90.

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SME44 is an intelligence platform, not an adviser, and nothing here is for sale. Public registers contain errors and delays, and our matching of one register to another can too. Verify anything important against the source register before acting. Nothing here is legal, financial, tax or investment advice.