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A former JC Rook & Sons unit is to become a fishmongers and street food bar – two years after the popular butchers fell into administration. Jenkins & Son, which has been trading in Deal High Street for 80 years, is leaving its current home next to Dial A Pizza to move to the larger site close by. The unit has sat empty since the family-run butchers collapsed in 2022, causing 150 job losses. For the past nine months, builders have been carrying out repairs and renovations to the store to allow the fishmongers to open on Tuesday, June 25. The ground floor is being split into two sections. One h…