GRANVILLES
Granvilles - Celebrating 30
“
s a financial rep and a dental nurse Adam and
of ‘blood, sweat and tears.’
Mandy Jones were a newly married couple
Within a year Adam and Mandy had secured
living in Madeley. Fed up with life in their
themselves a licence to sell alcohol and were
then chosen careers, the couple yearned to
running a successful tea room and restaurant.
get out of the rat race and pursue
Adam recalled how, as keen
their dream.
amateurs with no prior experience
The
beginning
of
this
in the restaurant trade they had to
The beginning of
particular dream started back in
learn very quickly.
1984 when driving through Stone this particular dream
“We had always dreamt of
started back in 1984 running our own business and when
one day, the couple spotted a
small unassuming tea room up for when driving through we ate out at restaurants we would
sale, and on a whim decided to
discuss how differently we would do
Stone one day, the
buy it.
things if it were ours, but before we
couple spotted a
With their first child on the
small unassuming bought the tearoom neither of us
way Adam and Mandy took a tea room up for sale, had any experience in that line of
massive gamble giving up
work whatsoever.
and on a whim
everything to buy Little House
“At first we just served simple
decided to buy it
Tea Room, which now makes up
meals and sandwiches, that kind of
part of the dining area in
thing, and we had our share of
Granvilles, and although it hasn’t
disasters - I suppose you have to
been all been plain sailing it was worth the risk in
when you are learning. I remember we even had
the end.
my mother cooking for us for a short while and
The couple told Stone and Eccleshall Life how
Mandy had to make the puddings for seven years.”
they put everything they had into their new
Their leap into the unknown had paid off and