Five years ago, Dan Edwards couldn't stand fish and chips.
But his gran, who was struggling with dementia and lived alone, insisted on a chippy tea nearly every time he went around to visit.
"My sister and I would come and see her five or six times a week. Every time we went she would want fish and chips."
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Dan would try different chippies en route to her house in Walkden, but his thoughts on the take away remained the same.
"I couldn't understand why she was so devoted to this god awful food. I couldn't stand it," he told the Manchester Evening News.
But one day, a trip up to North Yorkshire changed everything.
"I went to stay in York and someone convinced me to try fish and chips there.
"I couldn't understand why it was so vastly different there to back home," Dan said.
At the time, Dan didn't think much of it. Until he got back home, met up with a chef who used to work for him in a hotel he managed in town, and saw a sign up in a window.
A sign that a chip shop, tucked away on a side street on Prestwich, was up for sale.
Suddenly, the man who hated fish and chips, became a fish and chip shop owner.
"I wanted to be my own boss. I knew that there were good fish and chips, but definitely not here.
"I was going to do it with beef dripping," he said.
Of course, one of the first things he wanted to do was tell his gran - the biggest fish and chips fan he knew.
"She was devastated. Because she was able to tell all her friends that I worked in all these posh places.
"She was appalled," he said.
Sadly, she was never able to try Chips @ No 8, which went on to become one of the Top 50 fish and chip takeaways in the country.
She died the day after Dan signed the lease four years ago.
"She left this world totally disappointed," Dan joked.
"As it happened, I inherited and she paid for this place," he explained.
Whether she would have eventually approved of Dan's venture or not, he wanted 'to have part of her in the shop'.
And so the maiden, that the menus hang from, came from her house.
Before the chip shop opened, Dan did plenty of research.
He went back to York, unsuccessfully asked to work in the kitchens to learn the tricks of the trade, and ate as many fish and chips as he could.
Dan wanted to practice before he opened his doors too, but he had a problem. As soon as he set about doing just that, he found out that his fryer was broken.
"I opened the shop having only fried three fish in my life," he told the M.E.N.
So what makes Chips @ No 8 so special?
Beef drippings and fresh ingredients, for one thing.
"It makes a massive difference," he said.
"I was forced to use frozen fish once before and I promised myself I could never do it again.
But for Dan, his wants the experience to go beyond the food.
He says what customers experience when they walk in is 'equally important' as when they open up the food at home.
"It's not the food that stands out, I want want the whole experience to."
Chips @ No 8 certainly stands out compared to other chippies. Dan knew it had to.
"There's always a battle with this side street. There's no visibility. Half of Prestwich still don't know we exist," he said.
When he first did the place up, he said he wanted it to look like an 'eclectic hotel bathroom'.
But it's also a disco - especially on a Friday.
They play disco music and and there's even a glitter ball in the centre of the ceiling.
"It's a good vibe in here," he said.
When the M.E.N went to visit, before the shop opened up on a Tuesday, staff gradually appeared before the shop opened up at 4.30pm.
Two of the girls were sisters - and one of them turned up almost half an hour early for work.
"We keep it very close and we don't lose people," Dan said.
When Chips @ No. 8 was first written about in the Manchester Evening News, and when it was listed on Fry Magazine's Top 50 fish and chip takeaways, the queues outside the shop were 'bonkers'.
Even before that, customers were having to wait 40 minutes for their orders on a Friday night.
Now, Dan and his small team have got that wait down to eight minutes.
But he knows they've outgrown the shop.
"We're outgrowing this place now. I don't think we can do any more on a Friday night," he said.
But Dan says he's already eyed up a spot in Prestwich that would be perfect.
It would allow him to make his fish and chip shop into a restaurant. To have a bigger menu, and even a fresh fish counter.
He's just waiting for it to go on the market.
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