Mark Handley and his family opened their first chippy on the island in 1981.
Serving fish and chips for nearly 44 years, the Handley's are the best in the business for what they do.
Chips cheese and gravy has not always been a trending dish.
Chippy boss Mark said: 'You never seen it at all in the first decade of doing it, then all of a sudden we've seen it developing. We used to grate our own cheese, then we had to buy it grated because we couldn't keep up. It's really grown more popular the last 10-15 years.'
Serving fish and chips for nearly 44 years, the Handley's are the best in the business for what they do.
Chips cheese and gravy has not always been a trending dish.
Chippy boss Mark said: 'You never seen it at all in the first decade of doing it, then all of a sudden we've seen it developing. We used to grate our own cheese, then we had to buy it grated because we couldn't keep up. It's really grown more popular the last 10-15 years.'
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00:00The last Monday of January has turned into the busiest chip day of the year.
00:06We sell more chips that day than we do any other day.
00:09My name is Mark Hanley and I'm the owner of the Terrace Chippy and Port Erin Chippy.
00:13We've been involved since the start of when Geoff the Mongoose started doing it.
00:17A lot goes on that you don't see.
00:19We'll be in here at eight in the morning getting all the spuds ready.
00:22We use about a ton of spuds, lots and lots of gravy, everything about triples.
00:27We do triple the amount we'd normally do, maybe even more.
00:29Obviously, days before ordering, make sure we deal with the creamery and they've got
00:33enough cheese.
00:34The first year we did it, we got blown away and had to run around grabbing more cheese
00:38from anywhere because we'd run out of everything.
00:41It's just about being organised and making sure you've got enough stock is the main thing.
00:44It's going to be £5.50 in the takeaway and in the diner, which is a great saving.
00:48It gives everyone a bit of a lift on the last Monday of January.
00:52It's just grown and grown, full team on all day.
00:55Lunch is very busy with big orders and stuff for banks and offices, and then tea times,
01:00more families, and it doesn't stop all day.
01:03Terry's Chippy's open all day, Port Erin Chippy's open all day, and The Islander is open at
01:08tea time.
01:09Unfortunately, we can't do any deliveries because we tried it one year and it's just
01:13too busy.
01:14We had to stop doing them halfway, so there'll be no deliveries on the day.
01:18You'll have to come in and get it if you want it.
01:20We've had fish and chip shops on the Isle of Man since 1981.
01:23Definitely not the first 10 years, you never saw it at all, and then suddenly it started.
01:28I don't think anyone really invented it, it just started developing.
01:32We didn't push it, nobody pushed it, but there was only our shops going through them years,
01:37so it must have developed through our shops.
01:38Well, you could see it develop and it just started getting busier and busier.
01:42We used to grate our own cheese just a bit, but then we had to buy it in grater because
01:45we couldn't keep up, and it's just really grown the last 10, 15 years.