* Modern and well - appointed cafe business in the popular coastal town of Buckie.
* Prominently positioned and easily accessed operation, close to other amenities and within a high street setting.
* Tastefully decorated providing a lovely ambience, offering 54 covers and serving a range of menu options.
* Excellent customer areas plus well - appointed service facilities and modern guest washrooms.
* A simple and profitable trading model ideally suited to first - time buyers looking for a hands - on role.
**Description**
Le Café Coull is an attractive ground floor trading unit, set in a most
prominent operating location within the popular coastal town of Buckie. The
building, has an attractive façade with fully glazed frontage offering
excellent signage options. Set centrally within the town, the business aspects
are easily located and ideally positioned to take advantage of the many locals
who visit the town and the influx of tourists over the summer months. This
attractively furnished and modern café opened in 2011 and is presented to the
market as a turn key operation, with modern facilities throughout. The
property is beautifully appointed with modern décor offering 54 covers
comfortably. The trading aspects provide a wonderful ambience, tastefully
decorated with a range of fitted and free - standing tables and benched seating.
The service areas are well - equipped to provide quality food provision and to
support a highly frequented modern café. This attractive and affordable going
concern, offers a simple and profitable trading opportunity which would
perfectly suit new hands - on owner/operators.
**Trade**
Le Café Coull is an established business, trading since 2011 with a fantastic
reputation locally. The business offers a year - round trading platform and
currently opens 7 days a week, Mon - Thurs 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 7pm,
Saturday 9am - 5pm and Sundays 10am to 5pm. The business has a consistently high
turnover, producing an attractive net profit. Currently offering a range of
breakfasts, lunches with daily specials and freshly baked goods, a takeaway
menu is also available. The café has undoubted potential to further extend
opening hours offering evening meals should a new owner so wish.
**Reason for sale**
The current owner purchased the property in 2011 and has worked tirelessly to
bring the business up to its current standard. It is now a genuine desire to
reduce work commitments that brings this highly attractive business
opportunity to the market.
**Location**
The traditional fishing town of Buckie dates back to the 1400s and sits on the
edge of a historical harbour. Featuring attractive sandy beaches and rock
pools, the village offers an ideal base to explore the North East of Scotland
either by car or on foot along the coastal walk or nearby Speyside Way.
Ideally situated close to the A98, both Inverness and Aberdeen can be accessed
in about an hour and a halfs drive, there is ample rail and bus links. Other
towns and centres located close by include Banff, Fochabers, Elgin as well as
also being a short drive from world - class fishing on the River Spey, superb
golf courses and the Whisky Trail with several well - known brands and world
class whisky distilleries located close by. Buckie has grown in recent years
with significant house building on the outskirts. Both primary and secondary
schooling is available as well as a busy High Street offering a variety of
shops, pubs and restaurants. Ornithologists and naturalists are not short of
interests here including bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth, the scenic
north east coast has always been a popular tourist destination whether as a
convenient base to explore numerous distilleries or to visit archaeological
sites and historic castles.
**The property**
Of traditional stone construction, under a pitched slate roof, the property is
an attractive ground floor trading unit in a typical high street setting. To
the rear of the property is an area of shared ground, with access to the rear
through a delivery door. There is an external shed which is used for overspill
dry goods storage. There is on road car parking directly outside the business
plus public ample public car parks just a couple of minutes walk.
**Public areas**
With attractive fully glazed shop frontage, offering excellent signage
options, customer access to the trading elements is off the pavement to the
front through a glazed door. Once inside the cafe, there is a mix of free -
standing wooden tables and chairs plus benched seating, all attractively
spaced out, offering 54 covers. To the rear of the customer area is a service
counter with attractive glazed servery and a range of chillers and display
cabinets. The counter has a bean to cup coffee machine, hot water boiler and
epos till system. There are good quality ladies, gents and disabled wash
rooms, with baby changing facilities and dyson hand dryers, meeting modern
specifications. The café is finished to a high standard throughout making this
a walk - in business opportunity with no significant capital expenditure
required by new owners.
**Service areas**
A most attractive feature of the sale is the excellent commercial kitchen
located to the rear of the service counter, offering ease of food preparation
and service. The well - appointed kitchen is modern with stainless steel
worktops and includes a range of appliances including a commercial gas cooker,
double fryer, double panini grill, two soup kettles, refrigerated aisle
workstation with storage, 2 commercial microwaves, 2 large fridges and 2 large
freezers, pot wash area and dishwasher. There is ample storage throughout this
area; additionally, there is a large store cupboard adjacent to the washrooms.
**Owners / staff accommodation**
There is no owners accommodation allocated within this property.
**License**
The business does not have a license in accordance with The Licensing Scotland
Act 2005. However, this is an area of trade that could be explored subject to
the necessary consents.
**Services**
The business benefits from mains gas, electricity, water and drainage. The
café has gas central heating. The property was renovated in 2011 when it was
fully rewired, with upgrades including a new boiler in 2017. The property is
fire safety and eho compliant.

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