Facts About Fish & Chips

Fish and Chips are the most popular takeaway meal being nearly four times more popular than curries.

The Fish and Chip Trade sector employs over 60,000 people.

Nearly 70% of us take our fish and chips home to eat.

Cod is the most popular fish sold in fish and chip shops accounting for 61.5 per cent of fish sold, followed by haddock at 25 per cent.

Some shops offer locally landed fish depending on what’s available in the market place, but the vast majority of the cod and haddock sold in UK fish and chip shops (95%) are supplied fresher than fresh by being frozen at sea within minutes of being caught in the sustainable waters of the Barents Sea.  Fish as a commodity freezes and thaws even better than fresh vegetables and as a result, frozen fish is the very best way to deliver consistently high quality over fresh and ensure that there is plenty of fish for generations to come.

More than one in six of us can’t resist going to the fish and chip shop at least once a week. Those from Yorkshire have the biggest cravings.

F&C shops sell 434.8 million meals a year, that’s seven meals from a Fish & Chip Shop each year for every man, woman and child in the UK. 58% of these are Fish and Chips. This amounts to over 300 Million Fish & Chip meals a year.

£1.2 billion a year is spent in them - that means 1 in every 100 food pounds is spent at a fish and chip shop.

Typically Fish and Chips have 9.42 grams of fat per 100 grams. (Petrou Brothers Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas showed half that figure) Beating all other takeaways. The average pizza has 11, Big Mac meal with medium fries has 12.1, Whopper meal with medium fries has 14.5, chicken korma 15.5 and doner kebab 16.2. The same goes for calories - 595 in the average portion - where the average pizza has 871, Big Mac meal with medium fries has 888, Whopper meal with medium fries has 892, chicken korma 910 and doner kebab 924.

On a Friday, 20% of meals purchased out of home are purchased from a Fish and Chip Shop.