Spud Fish & Chips

What Spud Fish & Chips does

Spud Fish & Chips, operating as Alki Spud, is a single-location seafood restaurant founded in 1935 at 2666 Alki Ave SW on Seattle's Alki Beach waterfront. The company's core offering is traditional fish and chips, which it markets as "award-winning" and as Seattle's longest-running seafood menu. It serves a dual customer base of West Seattle residents and Alki Beach tourists drawn by panoramic views of Elliott Bay, downtown Seattle, and the Olympic Mountains, operating daily from 11am to 9pm.

The business model is straightforward direct-to-consumer food service: dine-in seating at the waterfront location, takeout pickup orders placed through a third-party online ordering platform, and a small ancillary merchandise line of gift cards, shirts, and mugs sold through an online shop. Revenue is generated transactionally from anonymous walk-in and pickup consumers, with no disclosed catering contracts, no franchise model, and no second location. The company is privately held with 12 employees, no disclosed ownership structure, no funding history, and no M&A or partnership activity on record.

The technology footprint is minimal and consistent with a small independent restaurant: a Squarespace-hosted website, a third-party ordering link, and standard POS-style operations. There is no proprietary software, no mobile app, no API surface, and no AI/ML capability of any kind. Strategic activity is limited to incremental channel moves (online ordering) and a small retail extension (merchandise shop) layered on top of an essentially unchanged 1935 operating concept.

Name

Spud Fish & Chips

Website

https://alkispud.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alki Spud is a privately held, single-location seafood restaurant founded in 1935 on Seattle's Alki Beach, serving traditional fish and chips to West Seattle residents and tourists from a waterfront dining location, with a small branded merchandise line and online pickup ordering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Seafood Restaurant

akta.pro primary industry

Seafood QSR (THAFAAAH)

Keywords

• Seafood restaurant
• Fish and chips
• Casual dining
• Waterfront dining
• Seafood takeout

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining and Takeout: Direct sales of food and beverages to consumers through dine-in service and takeout orders at the Alki Beach location.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Spud Fish & Chips (Alki Spud) operates a single-location seafood restaurant on Seattle's Alki Beach waterfront, serving award-winning fish and chips and related seafood to walk-in and takeout customers since 1935. The restaurant complements its core food offering with branded merchandise and gift cards sold through an on-site shop, and processes pickup orders through a third-party online ordering platform.

Product overview

Alki Spud Fish and Chips is a single-location seafood restaurant operating since 1935 at Alki Beach in Seattle, Washington. The core offering is fish and chips and other seafood dishes. The restaurant also offers ancillary products including gift cards and branded merchandise (shirts, mugs) through its online shop. It is not a software product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fish and Chips Signature award-winning seafood fish and chips served at the Alki Beach restaurant for dine-in and takeout customers since 1935.
• Gift Cards

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• The 5 Point Cafe: Historic Seattle diner/casual eatery in Belltown. Comparable to Alki Spud as a long-running Seattle casual dining institution with strong local brand recognition, though its cuisine is broader than seafood.
• Kidd Valley: Pacific Northwest casual dining chain with multiple locations. Comparable to Alki Spud as a PNW fast-casual food operator with regional brand presence, though focused on burgers rather than seafood.

Direct peers

• Ivar's: Iconic Seattle-based seafood restaurant chain with multiple locations and a deep heritage brand. Directly comparable to Alki Spud as another long-running Seattle seafood brand, though Ivar's operates a broader multi-location footprint.
• Pike Place Chowder: Award-winning Seattle seafood restaurant specializing in chowders and seafood dishes. Comparable to Alki Spud as a Seattle-based seafood brand with strong tourist appeal and a focus on signature seafood items.
• Anthony's HomePort: Pacific Northwest seafood restaurant chain with multiple waterfront locations. Comparable to Alki Spud as a PNW seafood operator with a heritage brand and waterfront dining focus, though at a larger scale.
• Fisherman's Restaurant: Seattle seafood restaurant located on the waterfront. Comparable to Alki Spud as a single-location Seattle seafood restaurant with a focus on traditional fish preparations and waterfront dining.
• Ray's Boathouse: Seattle waterfront seafood restaurant with scenic views. Comparable to Alki Spud as a Seattle waterfront fine-casual seafood destination with a long operating history and similar tourist/resident customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Long John Silver's: National seafood QSR chain. Comparable to Alki Spud as a seafood-focused quick-service restaurant, though at a vastly larger scale and as a franchise-driven national brand rather than a single-location independent.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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