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When Simone Hodgkinson immigrated to Canada from England 15 years ago, she missed what we would call French fries. Of course, this Manchester girl would never call them that! “I was vegetarian then so I missed chips big-time,” she says. “And I couldn’t believe that we lived here and there were so many Brits and there were no chippies here. It didn’t make sense to me that I couldn’t get real fish and chips.”

When her husband, Gary was laid off in the spring of 2009, he got three months’ severance. His wife persuaded him to use his severance money to fill that culinary gap. The couple bought an old burger joint in the Shoppes of Bridlewood mall, renovated it and opened The British Chippy in October of that year.