Isle of Ely Produce & Chippy Chat are once again opening their doors FREE to chip shop owners managers and suppliers on Sunday Sept 6th 2026

FREE Chip Shop Industry Open Day - Come and join us!

Isle of Ely Produce and Chippy Chat are once again opening their doors to chip shop owners and managers on Sunday September 6th 2026! It is one of the FREE industry events of the year!

The event starts at 9.30 am at our farm in Ely, Cambridgeshire with a coffee and a chance to talk to industry friends & colleagues. It is invaluable, not only do chip shop owners and staff find out first-hand how the potato crop is faring for 2026/27, but they also get an idea about predicted cost and quality of the crop for the year ahead.

Add to that lots of key suppliers will be sponsoring and/or attending on the day. In 2025 they included Pukka Pies, Middleton Foods, Premier 1 Filtration, Ceres, Drywite, Friars Pride, Agrico, McWhinneys, Seafood from Norway, BD Signs, Meijer Potato UK, Panaepos, Smales, PJ Lee & Sons, JFK , Blakemans, Frymax, AL Lee Farming Company, VA Whitley, Henry Colbeck, Losalt, Stokes Sauces, Keejays & more.

You will watch presentations on our giant AV, with full staging, from award winning fish and chip shop owners, giving you valuable advice for your shop. Guest speakers for this event already include NFFF President Andrew Crook, NFFF National Fish & Chip Best Takeaway Award Winner Gavin and Aman Dhesi, our Field to Frier winners from The Fishworks, Largs, Menu Innovation award winner Ryan Harrison from Harrisons Fish & Chips, Oxford, and George Morey from Knights Fish and Chips, Glastonbury with more to be announced soon.

Please email austen@chippychat.co.uk if you would like to be a sponsor and/or exhibit on the day.

We will also have Oliver Boutwood back with his Q&A sessions, Mike Neaverson's excellent summary of the crop for the year ahead plus the chance for you to try Babylon, a new chipping variety from Agrico, fish goujons and chips fried by the award winning mobile Pimp my Fish supplied by Smales and Seafood from Norway and lots of samples and freebies too. It’s the FREE industry event not to miss!

The event is suitable for all levels of management and also young friers too. Maximum of 3 tickets per shop. FREE refreshments will also be served.

In 2025 over 50 people stayed in Ely too for an evening meal and drinks. A chance for you all to sit and relax with industry peers. Please let us know if you intend to stay email austen@chippychat.co.uk, and we will add you to the list for the restaurant and send you hotel choices (if staying).

Tickets are FREE but a fee of £100 each will be charged to non exhibitor suppliers/ sponsors to attend towards costs for the day

Enjoy the Day

Austen Dack - Chippy Chat Publishing Editor

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