Alex Polizzi - The Fixer
Discussion
DSLiverpool said:
They said they do £1800 a day but need £2100 I call b
ks,
I did a double take on those figures too, but I dont think it was covered in any more detail.ks, He did seem to have 4 or 5 members of staff, maybe more at the weekend.
Kitchen
Rent? - Big unit too
Insurance must be pretty costly
Heating during winter
Previous loans for the equipment
£760K+ a year though?!
She must have meant £2100 a month.
Steamer said:
I did a double take on those figures too, but I dont think it was covered in any more detail.
He did seem to have 4 or 5 members of staff, maybe more at the weekend.
Said they employ a manager and 26 staff in total at the begining - 3m06s - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04w8xlf/alex...He did seem to have 4 or 5 members of staff, maybe more at the weekend.
Steamer said:
DSLiverpool said:
They said they do £1800 a day but need £2100 I call bks,
I did a double take on those figures too, but I dont think it was covered in any more detail.ks, He did seem to have 4 or 5 members of staff, maybe more at the weekend.
Kitchen
Rent? - Big unit too
Insurance must be pretty costly
Heating during winter
Previous loans for the equipment
£760K+ a year though?!
She must have meant £2100 a month.
With other costs even £2100 a week seems tight so perhaps it was per day. The centre Mrs BigBen is working on will need to turnover a good few hundred K and is a fair chunk smaller than the one in the show.
Ben
BigBen said:
£2100 a month would only cover the rent and rates on that building. Insurance is not as much as everyone thinks, a couple of grand a year perhaps. Staff bills could be £5k a month assuming he takes a wage and pays the manager at least £15k a year. Repaying his £400k investment may or may not still be an overhead (he had been going 9 years)
With other costs even £2100 a week seems tight so perhaps it was per day. The centre Mrs BigBen is working on will need to turnover a good few hundred K and is a fair chunk smaller than the one in the show.
Ben
I'd be surprised if £2100 pcm covered rent and rates. With other costs even £2100 a week seems tight so perhaps it was per day. The centre Mrs BigBen is working on will need to turnover a good few hundred K and is a fair chunk smaller than the one in the show.
Ben
He said it was 10,000 sq ft, I would take a (complete) guess at maybe £3.50 per sq ft for a building like that, maybe £3 - though impossible to tell with no research.
You'd need to be at about £1.60 - £1.70 psf to make it £2100 pcm for rent and rates - and it looked a bit smarter than that I have to say
Regarding the play centre, the first thing I would change would be the outside appearance, the place was an eyesore, no signage and a tatty old rusty metal container stuck by the front door...also to not cater for kids meals was unbelievable.
The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing the all equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
Also to not want to pick the brains of a competitor was idiotic, he could have gone in posing as a prospective customer checking the place out.
Full marks to the wedding planner lady, she had some decent ideas, but working from home would be a big snag I would guess...She deserved to succeed, but competition is tough in that field.....she didn't really have a USP.....
The trouble with the Torquay tea room was the location, 20 minutes away from the town centre, the bloke was a knob, and the daughter looked like she had been eating all the cream teas....
Very impressed with AP though....virtually everything she says makes sense, pity so many businesses are not prepared to change their old ways, or at least think about it.
Great viewing, nearly as good as Corrie.
The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing the all equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
Also to not want to pick the brains of a competitor was idiotic, he could have gone in posing as a prospective customer checking the place out.
Full marks to the wedding planner lady, she had some decent ideas, but working from home would be a big snag I would guess...She deserved to succeed, but competition is tough in that field.....she didn't really have a USP.....
The trouble with the Torquay tea room was the location, 20 minutes away from the town centre, the bloke was a knob, and the daughter looked like she had been eating all the cream teas....
Very impressed with AP though....virtually everything she says makes sense, pity so many businesses are not prepared to change their old ways, or at least think about it.
Great viewing, nearly as good as Corrie.
Wacky Racer said:
Regarding the play centre, the first thing I would change would be the outside appearance, the place was an eyesore, no signage and a tatty old rusty metal container stuck by the front door...also to not cater for kids meals was unbelievable.
The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing the all equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
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I think the concrete floor wasn't sealed and its a bugger to do once your in the building - concrete dust is never ending.The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing the all equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
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DSLiverpool said:
Wacky Racer said:
Regarding the play centre, the first thing I would change would be the outside appearance, the place was an eyesore, no signage and a tatty old rusty metal container stuck by the front door...also to not cater for kids meals was unbelievable.
The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing all the equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
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I think the concrete floor wasn't sealed and its a bugger to do once your in the building - concrete dust is never ending.The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing all the equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
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When two of my lads were younger at college, they worked part time in a large privately run place like this, locally to me for beer money, and the owners were fastidious about this, although that was eight years ago.
You can't expect it to be like a palace, but a thick layer of dust is unacceptable, and would put most punters off, if there is an alternative play facility nearby.
I thought the guy was quite nice, and hard working, but it's easy to get in a rut and become complacent, which is the point Alex is always trying to make in these programmes.
Wacky Racer said:
DSLiverpool said:
Wacky Racer said:
Regarding the play centre, the first thing I would change would be the outside appearance, the place was an eyesore, no signage and a tatty old rusty metal container stuck by the front door...also to not cater for kids meals was unbelievable.
The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing all the equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
.
I think the concrete floor wasn't sealed and its a bugger to do once your in the building - concrete dust is never ending.The place was filthy to, the staff should be on their hands and knees scrubbing all the equipment with dettol or similar at the end of every day.
.
When two of my lads were younger at college, they worked part time in a large privately run place like this, locally to me for beer money, and the owners were fastidious about this, although that was eight years ago.
You can't expect it to be like a palace, but a thick layer of dust is unacceptable, and would put most punters off, if there is an alternative play facility nearby.
I thought the guy was quite nice, and hard working, but it's easy to get in a rut and become complacent, which is the point Alex is always trying to make in these programmes.
I think they do try and do a different business each time to show diversity of business effected.
All different - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Polizzi:_The_Fix...
All different - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Polizzi:_The_Fix...
eastlmark said:
another poor show this week Pet shop in Wimbledon run by a couple of well you just have to watch it on I player then . Really scraping the barrel. There must be more interesting failing business out there.
and it did not really need much expert insight to see why it was failing, a weak episode.I thought there was a bit of pouting going on when they were talking about how to get the staff to work better with the boyfriend, though the problem solved itself ultimately. Only half-watching this one though, not as interesting as the others have been. Maybe they just weren't doing anything quite as terrible as the others - usually there's a jaw-drop moment and there just wasn't here. Though going to the trouble of printing those leaflets and standing around handing them out only to find they hadn't put the phone number on was a bit stupid.
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