Names: Fiona Kay.
Business name: Cheese Please.
What does your business do? We’re a cheese specialist, stocking an extensive range of local, British and continental cheeses. We also sell a wide range of accompanying products including savoury biscuits, relishes, chutneys, olives and cheese boards. In addition, our takeaway sells Italian coffee, teas and bespoke sandwiches.
How long have you been running the business? The business has been running for a year. We started in the Needlemakers, and moved to the High St in February.
What was on the premises before? Just before us it was a ladies' clothing shop, and prior to that a cobblers and key-cutting business.
Where do you get your cheeses from? We source many of them ourselves directly from the farms and small producers. We also use a couple of specialist wholesalers.
What’s the most expensive product you sell? We create cheese displays (a savoury option to a cake) for weddings and special occasions. These often cost hundreds of pounds, but the price of course is dependant on the types, and amount of cheese chosen.
And the cheapest? A mini pot of spicy slow-roast tomato chutney for 75p. (Or a single kalamata olive would be around 6p).
And the most unusual? We’ve a wide range of unusual products to accompany cheese, including baked fig balls, pickled onions in vodka and orange, and gin and tonic turnips.
What sort of people use the shop? A wide variety of locals throughout the day, whilst at lunchtime we are busy with office workers in search of our freshly made sandwiches and artisan breads.
Is their anything that irritates you about the business? The lack of a loading bay outside, and the intolerance of the wardens to our delivery drivers.