Orchid - first pubco to become a Red Tractor Licensee
03-Sep-2007
The Orchid Group has become the first pub company to become a Red Tractor Licensee.
Wet weather hits Café Rouge
03-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
The recent wet weather has impacted on Tragus' Café Rouge restaurant chain more than the rest of its portfolio, the group revealed...
What the Sunday papers said
02-Sep-2007
JD Wetherspoon will this week reveal it has ridden out the smoking ban with plans to open more pubs on the back of rising food sales. The company is...
Take three
01-Sep-2007
Richard Fox looks at more simple menu ideas The humble mushroom - stalwart of the English countryside - is without doubt, edible nature's answer to...
Med time
01-Sep-2007
Bar snacks and the increasing trend for grazing food is where Mediterranean food can come into its own. PubChef reports The trend for sharing food...
Gentlemen's evenings
01-Sep-2007
Where: The Snooty Fox, Lowick, Northamptonshire, www.snootyinns.com The idea: With a programme of regular entertainment, the Snooty Fox is keen to...
Good month bad month
01-Sep-2007
Good month for Med bar concept Que Pasa: Marston's is investing £1m in three new sites. Saucy chefs: Innovate Foods is giving away a trip to...
Diary dates... September
01-Sep-2007
Soil Association Organic Food Fortnight 1-16 September Retailers, pubs and restaurants across the UK are encouraging everyone to try an organic...
PubChef's round-up of what the critics have penned about pub food
01-Sep-2007
The Rosendale, Dulwich, London 0208 670 0812 www.therosendale.co.uk Fay Maschler, Evening Standard, 25 July 07 The eel is good but served in a...
Moving from Hell to Paradise
01-Sep-2007
A former executive chef for Marco Pierre White is to head up a new London gastropub. Tim Payne, who was executive chef for Marco Pierre White...
31-Aug-2007
Actor and all-round national institution Stephen Fry chose to celebrate his 50th birthday last Friday in style - with a quiet meal in a Norfolk pub.
31-Aug-2007
BBPA writes to the Home Office in support of calls for tougher action against thugs who attack pub staff
Private equity and the pub trade
31-Aug-2007 By Hamish Champ
Why does private equity get into the pub market in the first place? Pub estates are like any other property in terms of investment; being asset...
31-Aug-2007
Electricity supplier Opus Energy has revamped its sales and pricing policies for licensees, following a torrent of complaints about the company to...
31-Aug-2007
Nightclub operator Luminar plans to treble the amount of seating space at its venues to around 20% of the total area. Luminar chief executive Steve...
30-Aug-2007
Trade angered at SNP's u-turn on paying to police anti-social behaviour
BIDs: a ray of hope?
30-Aug-2007
Some sectors of the trade are trumpeting Business Improvement Districts as the positive solution to reducing disorder. But how do they work? Nigel Huddleston reports
Bar Group turnover up by 10% to £10m
30-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Bar Group, the 30-strong Kent-based managed multiple lessee headed by Paul Wigham and Stephen Brook, saw turnover rise by 10% to £10.02m in its most...
Herald departure shocks employees
30-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
Employees of Herald Inns & Bars were shocked to find out about the departure of their chief executive Kevin Allcock last week after reading about...
Stella sales down in UK as supermarket price cuts bite
30-Aug-2007
InBev, the world's largest brewer, has reported a fall in UK sales of its flagship premium lager Stella Artois.In a fiercely competitive UK beer...
Punch defends 'fat cat' chief
30-Aug-2007
Punch Taverns has defended its chief executive Giles Thorley, disputing claims he earns 1,147 times the average salary of his employees. A report in...
Win a poker cruise in the caribbean
30-Aug-2007
A poker cruise in the Caribbean will be the prize for the pub that puts forward the winner of a new online pub poker tournament launched in...
New trade body 'to rival BII and FLVA'
30-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney
A new trade body run by licensees for licensees hopes to get off the ground in the next six months. The group, provisionally called the National...
Last chance to enter Hardys Chef of the Year competition
30-Aug-2007
Don't miss your last chance to enter a competition for a licensee and chef to win £5,000 each in Hardys food and wine matching competition
Michael Heseltine, IT manager, Orchid Group
30-Aug-2007
What has been the most important technological advance to your business in the last few years, and why? We are in the unique position of starting...
Mike McMinn, director of IT, Marston's
30-Aug-2007
What has been the most important technological advance to your business in the last few years, and why? I would say that it was probably the...
Low-level gambling is the way forward
30-Aug-2007
This weekend the new gambling laws take over, which will affect both pubs and clubs. Of more immediate impact for the pub landlord than the AWP...
LETTERs
30-Aug-2007
Don't be a whipping boy Re your article: Licensee's fury after thug is cautioned, (MA, 23 August 2007). Why do we let ourselves be this industry's...
Calling time on pub violence
30-Aug-2007
Much has been rightly made in recent weeks of the worrying rise in gun crime. Reports of teenage shootings are bound to catch the national media's...
Punch's Phil Pegler to join former boss
30-Aug-2007
Phil Pegler, the Punch executive who oversaw conversion of 750 Spirit managed pubs to lease, is to join the company now run by his former boss,...
THE AGENTS
30-Aug-2007
Paul Tallentyre Head of pub agency Davis Coffer Lyons The high-street licensed property market is suffering from stagnation. Lack of innovation in...
The keys to success
30-Aug-2007
The Cross Keys in Corsley, Wiltshire, serves great food and boasts an award-winning garden. Licensee Fraser Carruth talks to Humayun Hussain Why my...
BarTalk
30-Aug-2007
How was trade over the bank holiday weekend? Alan Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Hampshire It was quiet, as we expected. This is a city-centre pub but...
MyShout
30-Aug-2007
As an Afghan beer is found in Barnsley, should we worry more about parallel trading, asks Tony Jennings A recent Snifter piece about how a bottle of...
Punch slashes rent to £5 to save pub
30-Aug-2007 By Ewan Turney ewan.turney@william-reed.co.uk
Punch Taverns has slashed the rent at one of its Leicester pubs to just £5 a week in a bid to help it continue trading. John Griffin, who suffered a...
THE GUV'NOR Alison Carter
30-Aug-2007
The former BII licensee of the year advises paying attention to detail when carrying out a refurbishment project Refurbishing your pub? We all know a...
NewsDigest
30-Aug-2007
Five hosts are being taken to the High Court by the Premier League (PL) for allegedly screening foreign satellite football. In a writ, the five are...
Hosts set up poker league
30-Aug-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
A group of West Midlands licensees has set up a not-for-profit poker league to coincide with introduction of new laws allowing small-stake poker at...
29-Aug-2007 By John Harrington
Marston's Pub Company is looking for new licensees to run four "flagship" pubs it bought this week from the Rutland Pub Company for £5.5m.
29-Aug-2007 By The PMA Team
A report released today reveals that entrepreneurship, innovation and business acumen are the most important skills needed by licensees to run a...
Project update 5: The entertainers
29-Aug-2007
THE TIMES they are a-changing at the White Hart - and the category champions are beginning to play their part. The pub and hotel in Wiveliscombe,...
Project update 7: Could do better?
29-Aug-2007
Two-thirds of the way into the project, Barcena is showing some great results.The bar in Burgess Hill, West Sussex - representing the high street in...
Pete Robinson: State controlled pub grub
29-Aug-2007
Liverpool's restaurants and gastro-pubs are to carry 'traffic light' health labels on their menus. The labelling scheme is being piloted in city...
Project Update 7: All change
29-Aug-2007
The pub had a fabulous relaunch in May, and trade was picking up at the venue, the rural representative in our Sell More, Save More project. But now...
29-Aug-2007 By Mark Stretton
Julian Sargeson, the former Laurel Pub Company chief executive, is to take the helm at Herald Inns & Bars. He will join the 40-strong managed...
Pete Robinson: It's official - pubs give you cancer
28-Aug-2007
The good news is that the heat is off smokers, for now at least. A new campaign is underway to demonise that other favourite social habit, alcohol....
Marston's buys Rutland Pub Company
28-Aug-2007
Marston's Pub Company has bought Rutland Pub Company's four sites for £5.5m.This latest deal involves high-quality, English pubs in rural locations...
Openings
28-Aug-2007
The Headley The Common, Great Warley, Brentwood, Essex CM13 3HS 01277 216104 theheadley.co.uk Top restaurant chefs - especially those with celebrity...
Good month bad month
28-Aug-2007
Good month for Chef Michel Roux: He was named Beer Drinker of the Year by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group for his beer list at Le Gavroche....
What the Sunday papers said
26-Aug-2007
New figures from Cancer Research UK show that cancers linked to our affluent way of life are proliferating. The incidence of skin cancer has...
