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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chip shop
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, the fish and chip shop remains.
▪ An application has been made to establish a hot food shop adjacent to the chip shop.
▪ Elsewhere, Ian Beale gave his son a fish and chip shop for his birthday.
▪ Etty would normally volunteer to go to the fish and chip shop in Norfolk Street.
▪ It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper.
▪ More absurd was the sight of Johnny Marr in a Sale chip shop buying, wait for it, a steak pie.
▪ More than once I had gone down to the phone outside the chip shop at Annick Water.
▪ The fish and chip shop was still lighted and open.
Wiktionary
chip shop

n. (context British English) A fast food outlet which sells fish and chips.

Usage examples of "chip shop".

She told him about a licensed chip shop he could try, but it was a car-run away, so he walked briskly back to the flat and sought out untried bottles.

In Blairgowrie he stopped for fish and chips, which he ate at a Formica-topped table in the chip shop.

No chips: the freezer was bare, and neither of them felt like taking the trip to the chip shop.

They began to ride their bikes on to the pier, in the direction of the fish and chip shop.

The pickle factory was well alight and smelled like the biggest fish and chip shop in the world.

So they strolled away together from the hidden sea, past a closed fish and chip shop with amber Tizer bottles lining the window, past a barber’.

The woman from the chip shop played the laundry-woman who beat the Turkish Tramp King with her shoe.

Dunkley came out of the fish and chip shop to admire the new acquisition.

On my way home I stopped at the fish and chip shop, but it was closing.