The Eat Indian takeaway is located just off Church Street and has recently opened on the 26th June, serving a wide range of different Indian dishes ,wraps and their naan bread sandwich.
The takeaway has seen significant footfall since it opened a few days ago. Indian Eats offers a heat and eat service. Customers can buy food and then take it home to reheat or freeze to enjoy at a later date. Allowing customers to have restaurant quality food at their convenience. Eats Indian has multiple other branches in Lancaster, Kendall and Preston and has now opened in Blackpool.
Mohsin Bux is the manager of Indian Eats takeaway, he talked about what drew him to open in Blackpool: “We have a lot of customer base from Blackpool, they have been demanding us, can you open a store here? We took the plunge and opened a new store in Blackpool”.
The takeaway has seen significant footfall since it opened a few days ago. Indian Eats offers a heat and eat service. Customers can buy food and then take it home to reheat or freeze to enjoy at a later date. Allowing customers to have restaurant quality food at their convenience. Eats Indian has multiple other branches in Lancaster, Kendall and Preston and has now opened in Blackpool.
Mohsin Bux is the manager of Indian Eats takeaway, he talked about what drew him to open in Blackpool: “We have a lot of customer base from Blackpool, they have been demanding us, can you open a store here? We took the plunge and opened a new store in Blackpool”.
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00:00We have a lot of customer base from Blackpool, which they've been demanding us saying, can
00:13you open a store here? Can you open a store here? So we were looking around and we found
00:16a really nice location for us. And we took the plunge earlier this year on requiring
00:23this building and opening the store in Blackpool. We do a heat and eat meal. So basically that
00:29means we have a wide range of dishes from chicken, lamb and vegetables in store. And
00:36what you can do is you can eat in store. If you want to eat in store, we can make it warm
00:39for you or you can take it home and enjoy it in your own comfort of your own home.
00:47So far it's been a really good start. A lot of our customers that do come to Preston store
00:51and other stores that do come to, they have come already in store and they've said, oh,
00:55we're so happy that you've opened up now. And we're really excited to come and try your
01:01food from there. So yeah, so we have it all cooked in house. We have a unit where we cook
01:06everything in house. It's all authentic family recipes. Our father, mom, dad, their recipes
01:13passed down to our generation to us. And we're using them same recipes. Can we do Mr. And
01:18Mrs. Muchi? So you've got the surname, but not the first name. Is that okay? We want
01:22to keep that private, confidential for us so that nobody obviously uses. Yeah. Yeah.
01:30So obviously they've been passed down generations. Our father, our mother have done cooking and
01:35then we've took that recipe and we've took, we've obviously integrated it into our business
01:40and we've obviously built it as a family value tradition business. Yeah. Yeah. So our father
01:47was a wedding chef. Our mother used to cook from home to people in the area. At that time
01:51there was a lot of massive Muslim community. So she used to cook for a lot of people in
01:56the area. And like from that, that's how our name became and like we took our, made a future
02:02of it. You get what I mean? What's the eating been good for? Not impressed. Not in Blackpool,
02:07not yet. Obviously we just opened up. Hopefully we are looking forward to, for the person
02:13to come across and we'll always get a five star hopefully. Obviously we want to get it
02:18nationwide. Our plan is in the long term, run it as a family business, get it nationwide.
02:22And then if we wanted to, we could always franchise and push our board out on other
02:30people coming into the business. Yeah. That's a long term. Currently at the moment, no,
02:39we want to concentrate on Blackpool. We want to see how Blackpool goes because this is this
02:43main period of time for Blackpool, the summer period where you get a lot of people coming
02:47through the doors. So right now, currently moment in time, we're not laying any secrets
02:52out where we're opening. But yeah, so right now we're just doing Blackpool for now and
02:57we'll see how it goes. Yeah. So obviously it's just a challenge, isn't it? So we're
03:03taking each challenge as it comes. And now obviously we've settled for Lancaster, we've
03:07settled Kendall, we've settled Preston. Now this is our new challenge. Obviously we don't
03:11rush into other challenges as far ago as opening five, six stores at once, whereas big companies
03:17do. What we do is we like to integrate ourselves first into the business, put ourselves first,
03:23foremost to all the customers and show them what we are as a family. Yeah, we have core
03:27values. We want to be part of a community of each town and each city and show that we
03:33are part of you. So for example, in Lancaster, we've shown that we during COVID, we helped
03:39a lot of hospitals, a lot of nurses, a lot of doctors, a lot of homeless people to get
03:44through that period of time. Obviously we went to the hospitals, we fed them, we give
03:50them everything what we needed. And same in Preston, we help a lot of homeless community,
03:55a lot of people in that area and like in Kendall also. So obviously we want to be part and
04:00we want to help each community thrive. Does that make sense? So if we're going to thrive,
04:04we want other people around us to thrive as well with their businesses.
04:08Can you tell me a little bit more about working with hospitals?
04:13Yeah, so like, for example, in COVID, a lot of hospitals were overstaffed. Yeah, sorry,
04:18overpatients, less understaffed. They were working really hard at that moment in time
04:23and they weren't getting their time, lunches on breaks on time. And because we had a nice
04:28community of nurses and doctors that were supporting us before COVID, they got out to
04:33us, they touched us and they said, listen, we need help. So for that reason, we took
04:37it further and we went out of our way and we delivered to them at the hospital, at the
04:41gates for them to get food.
04:43Yeah, yeah.
04:44You get what I mean?
04:45How about in Preston?
04:46So obviously we weren't open at time in Preston for COVID, but right now we are helping soup
04:50kitchens, a lot of people in the area of Preston with food when they need it, obviously with
04:55their local suppliers.