Wetherby Whaler
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| The Wetherby Whaler | |
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| Established | 1989 |
| Food type | Fish and chips |
| Location | Yorkshire, England |
| Website | Wetherby Whaler |
The Wetherby Whaler is a chain of fish and chips restaurants in the United Kingdom. The first restaurant was founded in 1989 in Wetherby with six more having been subsequently opened across Yorkshire in Guiseley, Wakefield, York, Pudsey, Empire Outwood and Tadcaster (takeway only).[1][2][3]
Phillip and Janine Murphy founded the Wetherby Whaler restaurant in 1989 having worked in fishery in Tadcaster since 1969.[4][5]
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The second restaurant in the chain was opened in 1990 in Pudsey.[4] More branches were opened thereafter; York in 1996 (which was expanded in 2014),[6] Wakefield in 2001 and Guiseley in 2012.[2]
Guiseley fish and chip shop Harry Ramsden's was acquired by the Wetherby Whaler in 2012 for £500,000.[7][8] Considered by reviewers in The Metro and The Guardian to be the "spiritual home" of fish and chips,[1][8][9][10] Harry Ramsden's had gone into administration six months before the sale due to financial issues.[1]
A charity musical performance with a storyline based on fish and chips was held at the Guiseley restaurant in 2016.[11]
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