Smart For Pizzas

Adrian and I moved to Torbay from Wilshire two and a half years ago and bought two pizza takeaway businesses, one in Torquay and one in Paignton. Both were up and running as mainly “take away” with a few deliveries being made in the owner’s car or when busy they employed a driver with his own car.

We immediately decided the potential for the growth of the business was to increase the delivery trade and to that end we looked around for some cheap cars that we could use for delivering pizzas. Budget was tight and we ended up buying three white Nissan Micras. They were quite old (all L reg) but they looked good once we had them sign written and customers noticed them and they certainly brought in a lot of new trade.

After running them for over a year and ploughing money into them, (never a week seemed to go by without spending some serious money on new clutch, gear box, tyres, brakes etc. etc.). They seemed like a black hole; that we just had to keep pouring money into it just to keep them on the road. We decided it was time now that we had got the business going to take some time to have a serious look at the cost-effectiveness of having ageing cars – a decision had to be reached. MOT’s were looming for two of the Micras and we knew from experience that it was going to be costly....

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