What a buyer sees
THE PASTA BOWL LIMITED
Licensed restaurants · Northwood · 03240521
162staff · FY2025
30years trading
58oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor the year to 2025
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff162
2021169 → 1622025
Cash at bank£1.8M
2021£1.7M → £1.8M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£68,419in the middle half
£33,428£64,574£86,748
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
61079
Creditor daysdays27
112244
Stock daysdays4below almost all
5817
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 2
- Headcount fell from 185 to 162A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 4
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 8 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 58since 2016
- 54since 2016
Directors
- 58since 1996
- 54since 2006
- since 2015
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £11M | 162 | £1.8M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £11M | 185 | £1.9M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | not filed | 205 | £3.0M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | not filed | 169 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.4M£10.0M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.