The Coast Inn

Name

The Coast Inn

Legal name

Prospect Pubs & Bars Limited

Website

https://thecoastinn.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pub and Restaurant Hospitality

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Steakhouses & Seafood Restaurants (THAFACAE)

Keywords

• British pub food
• Riverside restaurant
• Sunday carvery
• Private event hire
• Guest ales

Headquarters

HQ city

West Mersea, Colchester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Core revenue from serving freshly prepared seasonal British pub food, breakfast, lunches, evening dinners, Sunday roasts, and a range of alcoholic beverages including guest ales, wines, gins, and premium spirits. Transactions are one-time purchases at point of sale.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Coast Inn operates a full-service British pub and restaurant on Mersea Island, serving breakfast from 9:30am, lunches, evening dinners, and Sunday carvery roasts made from locally sourced produce with a focus on fresh seafood including mussels and daily catch specials. The riverside bar offers guest ales, wines, an extensive gin range, and premium spirits, complemented by private hire facilities for events of 30-120 guests.

Product overview

The Coast Inn is a single-site British pub and restaurant on Mersea Island offering a unified hospitality service. The core products are Food Service (full restaurant with breakfast, carvery, and seasonal menus), Bar Service (ales, wines, spirits with estuary views), and Private Hire & Events (bookable spaces for celebrations up to 120 guests). The Coast Inn Club is a loyalty/newsletter add-on providing exclusive offers and updates to subscribed members. All offerings are provided through the physical pub venue and its associated website booking/contact facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food Service

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Mitchells & Butlers: UK operator of pub-restaurant brands (e.g., Harvester, Toby Carvery, All Bar One). Comparable on full-service food-led pub operations, Sunday-roast/carvery category overlap, and exposure to family dining occasions.
• Marston's: Large UK pub operator with a nationwide estate of food-led pubs. Comparable on the family-friendly pub-restaurant model and exposure to UK discretionary dining demand and cost pressures.
• JD Wetherspoon: UK's largest pub chain, including many coastal and destination sites. Comparable on the food-led pub model and broad demographic appeal, though at a low-cost, high-volume price point versus Coast Inn's premium positioning.
• Greene King: Major UK pub retailer and brewer operating thousands of managed and franchised pubs across coastal, suburban and high-street locations. Comparable on the food-and-drink pub model and on exposure to UK consumer and cost trends.
• Fuller, Smith & Turner (Fuller's): Large established UK brewer and pub operator with a managed and tenanted estate including many coastal and destination pubs. Comparable on full-service food-led pub model, though at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Stonegate Pub Company: UK operator of high-volume pub and bar estates including destination and coastal sites. Comparable on the late-evening trading hours (open until 23:00 like Coast Inn), premium drinks offer and family/event trade.
• Young's: London-based pub operator with a growing estate of premium and destination pubs, including riverside and gastropub formats. Comparable on the premium pub positioning, food-led proposition and destination-pub customer mix.

Direct peers

• The Company Shed: Long-standing Mersea Island seafood counter and restaurant operating on a no-frills, locally-landed catch model. Directly comparable on geography (same island), customer base (locals + coastal visitors) and seafood-led proposition.
• Prospect Pubs & Bars: Operating parent of The Coast Inn and other UK pubs under the same group. Directly comparable as the only multi-site operator running Coast Inn's own playbook of locally-sourced, food-led pub-and-restaurant sites with events capability.
• The Crown Inn, West Mersea: Historic pub and restaurant on West Mersea competing for the same island footfall, day-tripper trade and Sunday-lunch custom. Same catchment, similar full-service food-and-drink proposition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TheCoastInn
• Instagraminstagram.com/thecoastinn
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-coast-inn

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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