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What pies will you be making to celebrate British Pie Week?

Pie Report

10 facts to help boost your pub’s pie sales

By Nicholas Robinson

With British Pie Week just around the corner, it’s time to swat up on your pie knowledge to help boost the quality of your offer. Here are our top 10 tips to the best pub pies

Drink-led venues hit hard by closures

Market research

Drink-led venues hit hard by closures

By Oli Gross

Drink-led venues have been hit hard by closures, with the sector shrinking by 1.2% in 2015, according to the Market Growth Monitor from AlixPartners and CGA Peach.

21 need to know things about pub signs

Pub history

21 need to know things about pub signs

By BT Sport

The Romans might have given us sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health (thank you, Monty Python) - but arguably their greatest gift to our fair and pleasant land was the humble pub...

Food fraud is a growing and serious threat to all food businesses, experts have warned

Food Safety

Britain’s fruit and veg supplies ‘overlapped by drug cartels’

By Nicholas Robinson

The countries supplying Britain's fresh fruit and vegetables are overlapped by drug-smuggling gangs, an expert in the field has revealed, following warnings that operators may have long-since been at risk of many types of food fraud.

Getting nutty: Edgar's Choice was made just for pubs

Bar snacks

New nuts brand just for pubs

By Nicholas Robinson

Founders of the new premium snack firm Edgar's Choice, which has been developed specially for the pub trade, are aiming to get their products into 1,000 pubs within a year. Nicholas Robinson finds out if it's a good idea or just nuts.

FSA chief scientific adviser Guy Poppy

Consumers demand more food information

By Nicholas Robinson

Your customers want to know more about their food than ever before, leading consumer research released by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed.

Timothy Taylor chief executive Tim Dewey

The Big Interview: Timothy Taylor's Tim Dewey

By Emily Sutherland

Despite living in the UK for almost 30 years, new Timothy Taylor boss Tim Dewey can vividly remember his first visit to a British boozer — the Oxford Arms, Oxford’s oldest pub.

Ex-Duck & Waffle chef takes up head chef mantle

New opening

Fuller’s opens newly built pub on the Thames

By Nicholas Robinson

Fuller’s has opened its latest new-build pub on the River Thames, the Sail Loft on Greenwich Reach, with room for 300 customers and a nautical-themed menu designed by ex-Duck & Waffle chef Jacek Zywa.

RICS: Average new lease rent up 3% year-on-year

RICS Pub Benchmarking survey

RICS: Average new lease rent up 3% year-on-year

By Oli Gross

The average rent on a new lease was £29,253 in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2015, up by more than 3% year-on-year, according to the latest figures from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ Pub Benchmarking Survey.

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Content sponsored by the authentic Italian cheese firm Galbani.

Sponsored - How pizza can boost your pub’s food sales

By Nicholas Robinson

Pizzas are an easy-to-make and great-tasting option for your menu, and you can capitalise on the recent boom for the Italian food. Nicholas Robinson reports

British pork could be a thing of the past unless imports are reduced

Food

British pork could vanish from pub menus

By Nicholas Robinson

Home-grown pork could disappear from UK pub menus if the trade, as well as the wider food sector, doesn’t stop buying imports, pig big wigs have warned.

Hot Shots: Are you a pub trade rising star?

Careers

Hot Shots: Are you a pub trade rising star?

By Mike Berry

One of the biggest challenges the pub trade faces is attracting new talent and convincing people that the sector offers exciting and viable careers. The Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) wants to meet that challenge head-on and showcase the diversity...

What's new in pub desserts?

Dessert Report

Nine things you need to know about desserts in pubs

By Nicholas Robinson

Consumers are pickier than ever, especially when it comes to foods that are perceived to be bad for health and the waistline. Here are nine things you need to know to put a succesful dessert offer on in your pub.

10 ways to start your own pizza offer

Sponsored: Pizza Report

Sponsored - 10 tips to a successful pizza offer in your pub

By Nicholas Robinson

Italian classics have been a big part of the UK’s food scene for decades, but now more pubs are beginning to cash in on pizzas with rising success. Here are 10 things you should consider before launching your offer.

HSBC funding for 40 new Camerons pubs

City news

Camerons to add 40 new pubs to estate

By James Wallin, MC Allegra FS

North east brewer and pub operator Camerons has secured a £30m funding package from HSBC to allow it to add 40 new pubs.

Agnieszka Tyczka's partner Steven Smith accepted the award on her behalf

Top 50 Gastropubs

Double whammy for Freemasons at Top 50 Gastropubs

By Nicholas Robinson

Front-of-house manager Agnieszka Tyczka of the Freemasons at Wiswell, Clitheroe, Lancashire, brought home the gastropub’s first award of the day at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs.

Heineken continues support of flood-hit pubs

Flooding

Heineken continues support of flood-hit pubs

By Mike Berry

Heineken has continued its support for pubs and other on-trade customers in the north-west following the extensive flooding in the area over the festive period.

Steak and stout pie part of Bidvest's premium ready-prepared offer

Food

Bidvest relaunches own brand after name change

By Nicholas Robinson

Foodservice giant Bidvest has relaunched its own brand portfolio of food, drink and non-food products, less than a year after the hospitality supplier changed its name.

Heineken appoints new MD of Star Pubs & Bars

People News

Heineken appoints new MD of Star Pubs & Bars

By Mike Berry

Star Pubs & Bars has appointed a new managing director to directly represent the c.1000-strong tenanted and leased pub business on the board of parent company Heineken UK.

Independents face tough year against large chains

Independents face tough year against large chains

By Daniel Woolfson

Independent food operators worried about competing with larger groups need to "fight back" by demonstrating their individuality in 2016, an industry expert has advised. 

BrewDog rolls out coffee offer

BrewDog rolls out coffee offer

By M&C Allegra

BrewDog is now offering coffee from each of its UK bars with takeaway and packs of pre-ground beans also available.

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