Profile Pub Food: The back-door burger bar
17-Feb-2011 By Claire Dodd Claire
The chalkboard propped up against the gate behind the pub is the first clue they're on the right track. A woman sticks her head into the...
31-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit looks at ideas for how the humble pie can make a big impact on your pub's food offer. Pie sales will always go up during the winter...
25-Jan-2011 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a ten-pence sale, art exhibitions and a customer-run kitchen and bar.
23-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a karaoke room, pig rearing and a game and wine evening. Karaoke room Where: Columbo...
17-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Ideas to drive food sales at your pub including a children's menu competition, offering pizza when the kitchen is closed and a family fun day.
16-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub including an own-brand local beer, a 1927 menu and regional dishes.
09-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit looks at food and drink matching ideas for Christmas menus to maximise sales over the festive period.
Pub Food Families: The kids are all right
03-Nov-2010
Ok, let's get one thing straight, the last thing anyone wants is a screaming child incessantly banging their fork on the next table when you just...
01-Nov-2010 By PubChef
Ideas for driving food sales in your pub including a back to school party, a Faulty Towers night and a Seventh Heaven menu.
Autumn Food: Fall for new season flavours
28-Oct-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
To team well with Bonfire Night and the cold weather, some much-adored hearty dishes are in order this November. The baked potato has been a...
Festive Food: 'Tis the season to get planning...
21-Oct-2010
Christmas menus can present a difficult challenge for publicans who offer food. You want to offer people the great traditional Christmas dinner that...
Quality food and drink still most important pub ingredients
18-Oct-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A good choice of food and drink are still top of the agenda when customers are looking for a 'proper pub', according to a new survey. In a YouGov...
Pub food: Shell out on oysters
14-Oct-2010
It's hard to believe oysters are thought of as a sensual, sexy food. The squidgy saltwater bivalve encased in a coarse grey shell must be one of the...
13-Oct-2010 By MA Reporter
Pubs pushing beer as an accompaniment to meals will open up new opportunities — here is how to get involved.
06-Sep-2010 By Jo Bruce
In this month's focus on how to drive drink sales around food, Jo Bruce looks at ideas for wines and beers to match with Mediterranean food. There...
Pub Food Trends: Back to the future
02-Sep-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
It's the end of a gruelling working week. The sky is grey. The recession is still making an impression on the overdraft. And the British public are...
25-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales in your pub including 'Spork' dining, a Bastille Day event and a golf and grill day. 'Spork' dining Where: The Crown,...
23-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit looks at ideas for how pubs can maximise food and drink sales during British Food Fortnight, which runs from 18 September to 3 October.
11-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a cider and sausage festival, beer gift sets and a Twitter menu. Cider & sausage...
30-Jul-2010 By Fiona Sims
Fiona Sims looks at how licensees can boost drinks sales by recommending to go with different fish.
Pub food: Open to a new approach
29-Jul-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
"We thought we'd try to bring some of the London dining experience to Steyning," says George White, co-owner of Whites Bar & Kitchen at the White...
23-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub including an open-air theatre, blind wine tastings and kitchen garden tours.
Food trends: Taste transformation
22-Jul-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
We are a nation of food lovers. Now, don't take that the wrong way. It's not that Britain is getting podgy. What I mean is that as a nation, our...
20-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales in your pub including a farmer's market, a classic food and wine night and events based around a name. Grill nights...
06-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for helping driving food sales in your pub including an all-day jazz barbecue, an ale festival and a two-sitting carvery. All-day jazz...
25-Jun-2010 By PubChef
PubChef looks at ideas for driving drinks sales throughout summer and how to get the best out of a barbecue.
21-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub including a Spanish night, a music club and using web vouchers. Spanish night Where: the Mill Race,...
Food Safety: Sunday roast safety
17-Jun-2010
Nothing looks more appealing to a diner's eye than a carvery offering a splendid array of tempting and well-presented dishes. But a great deal of...
14-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving food sales at your pub including a sausage festival, afternoon tea and a hairdressing service.
10-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including making a film for your website, supporting local crafts and themed food and drink nights. Making...
07-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including adding doughnuts to dessert menus and and cooking hog roasts.
28-May-2010 By Lesley Foottit
With half the British asparagus season already under our belts, Lesley Foottit looks at how pub chefs are making the most of this fleeting delicacy.
24-May-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for driving sales at your pub including fish Fridays, a St George's Day menu and a tapas night.
'Pork scratchings are bursting with nutrients - and could be good for you'
04-May-2010
Surprise superfoods: Forget blueberries. Dieticians say popcorn and pork scratchings are bursting with nutrients - and could be GOOD for you;...
30-Apr-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including a pie and piano evening, a mystery diners' scheme and a swap and sale evening.
23-Apr-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including a stop-the-clock steak night, food cooked by DJs and low cost specials.
22-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including beauty nights, a children's pancake day event and race days.
01-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including coffee and cake offers, a sausage club and village nights.
22-Feb-2010 By Sheila McWattie
Head chef of the Hatch Inn Greg Palmer tells Sheila McWattie about the pub's food success. Chef's CV I've worked in good quality, food-led pubs for...
04-Feb-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including a midweek mussel night, a B&B owner event and a pudding night.
Pub Food Trends - how's the food?
03-Feb-2010
Food spend went up in pubs in December - but not as much as in previous years. That's one of the key statistics to emerge from the latest quarterly...
19-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ideas for boosting food sales at your pub including a discounted wine offer and a giant fish and chips competition.
18-Jan-2010 By Gemma McKenna
Gemma McKenna reports on Mitchells & Butlers food offer from its £1m kitchen skills academy in Watford.
Pubs warned after shellfish blamed for Fat Duck food poisoning
11-Sep-2009
Pubs and restaurants are being warned to check their procedures for handling shellfish in the wake of the report into the outbreak of food poisoning...
Food safety: Takeaway trouble
12-Aug-2009
A common problem faced by the hospitality industry is function organisers wanting to take away excess food after an event - particularly when guest...
Legal: Food sampling
24-Jun-2009
Reputations in the hospitality industry are gained - and lost - on the basis of quality and hygiene. As such, food sampling is becoming increasingly...
Food Safety Week is coming - June 15 to 21
04-Jun-2009
The aim of the UK-wide campaign, which is sponsored by the Food Standards Agency, is to raise awareness of good food hygiene practice. Businesses and...
30-Apr-2009 By Peter Coulson
There have been a number of successful claims made by restaurateurs in recent years against no-showers, says Peter Coulson.
Essex pub fined £1,000 for food hygiene breaches
24-Mar-2009
A licensee has been fined £1,000 after pleading guilty to 23 breaches of food hygiene law.Nicholas Marchetto, tenant at the Rose and Crown in...
M&B admits food hygiene breach at Portsmouth Harvester
20-Nov-2008
Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) faces a fine in the crown court after admitting food hygiene offences at the Portsmouth branch of its Harvester pub...
