{"id":5939,"date":"2026-03-26T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:45:06","slug":"churchills-fish-and-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Churchill&#8217;s Fish and Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5939\" class=\"elementor elementor-5939\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9d7dd2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c9d7dd2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e4ec58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7e4ec58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Sir John recently paid a visit to Churchill\u2019s Fish and Chips in South Woodham Ferrers. Churchill\u2019s has proudly remained a family-run business for four generations since its founding in 1923, and has grown to encompass 32 locations across London and the East of England.\u00a0<\/p><p>During his visit, Sir John was joined by representatives from HospitalityUK and had the opportunity to meet with the owner, James Lipscombe. The discussion focused on the significant challenges currently facing high street restaurants, particularly in light of recent Government policies that have led to a substantial rise in employment costs<\/p><p>Sir John heard firsthand about the pressures these changes are placing on businesses like Churchill\u2019s, which are striving to balance rising overheads while continuing to serve their local communities. The visit provided an inside look into the realities faced by long-standing family enterprises and highlighted the importance of supporting the hospitality sector during a time of economic uncertainty. Sir John will take these key insights on board as he continues to champion local businesses in Parliament.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With HospitalityUK, Sir John visits Churchill\u2019s Fish and Chips, a four-generation local family business since 1923, seeing firsthand the challenges high street restaurants face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}