Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
- Posts: 194
Sue Nicholas or Paul Watkins please confirm whether or not DDC owns the building.
Thank you.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
DDC donot own the building although we gave a grant towards the build cost.On their web site Dover SeaSports Development Trust .The Restaurant pay rent to them the same as the other users .I assume depends on the facilities as to what you are charged .
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,870
So the restaurant is a franchise and their rent goes to the Seasports Centre who use the money as funds to help pay their rent, taxes etc I assume.
Does that mean that DSC own the building.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes Jan Its a trust
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
My eight year-old nephew thinks the building is called the Seafood Centre, and with him and other family members we visited today. Impressive cuisine and perhaps Hythe Bay and the Marina Hotel will force a third, nearby, establishment to drive the standards of its food back up.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I have been advised Vista Leisure have taken over from the trust and lease out the restaurant to Hythe Bay
Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
- Posts: 194
I'm getting lost here.
So is it Vista Leisure putting up the rents to such an extent that the water sports people can't afford them and have had to move out?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
we are all getting lost on this one.
vista leisure are there to make a profit so want higher rent, the watersports chaps cannot pay so no money is coming in.
we have an excellent restaurant but no watersports.
will look pretty depressing come summer.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Being as how it's on the foreshore I detect the Dead Hand Behind most other bits of land in that area.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
would they have any say over the seasports centre?
How disappointing! Such potential.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
- Posts: 2,119
This is all getting very confusing, re post #3, nice to see a business doing well.
After the last few posts, how long before their not doing well? Potential up, rent up. lost business.
Can someone clarify all of this or am I just fick.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
- Posts: 2,119
Yes you may Bern, by the way you miss edited, I don't mind where you have your dibber hun so long as it don't get messy.
Too many fingers in one little pie do you think? won't be long before its all vacant again. Such a shame.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
They have a sign outside saying about a 20.12% discount during Jan. and Feb.
I appreciate it is a reference to the Olympics, but still a funny kind of discount.
I'm not tight at all and I'm not on the bones of my a***e, but I find their prices too dear for me and Jean.
I guess £10.00 for fish and chips (if good) is just at the limit I would pay, but £17 or more is not.
I'm sure they are not worried about whether I dine there or not, but it needs bums on seats to do well.
Rents for the use of the seasports centre by the various water sports clubs, should also be affordable, especially in these austere times.
Roger
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
I have eaten there twice and found the food excellent. Yes it is expensive but not overly so and the last time I spent less than I did for a similar meal at The Allotment (still my favourite). It may not be an 'every day' eatery, for for the full works anyway, but there is a need for such establishments and we are lucky in having three excellent restaurants (Hythe Bay, Allotment and the Marina) as well as several other good ones.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
- Posts: 1,052
Barry,
I agree.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
I am sure there are many things we would agree on Mark.... politics aside....
Guest 711- Registered: 1 Mar 2011
- Posts: 194
It wasn't just any old fish and chips for £10.
This was posh fish and chips - very large piece of cod, lovely chips, lemon wedge wrapped in muslin, home made tartare sauce and all served in nice surroundings with a starched linen napkin.
The normal undiscounted price is £12.50.
I think the 20.12% discount for January and February is purely a reference to the fact that we are just into the new year of 2012.
