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Pubs could be losing out on diners’ bookings if they use old “pen and paper” systems

11-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Pubs could be losing out on diners’ bookings if they are employing old “pen and paper” systems.

Whitbread's Beefeater Grill introduces a loyalty card for customers

09-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Whitbread has introduced a points-centred loyalty scheme across all 130 Beefeater Grill sites.

Safety expert issues E. Coli warning to pubs as crackdown becomes likely

07-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Pubs and restaurant operators are being warned of a possible E.Coli breakout and crackdown.

M&B's Sizzling Pubs scoop MIDAS award for top offers and pub meal discounts

05-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Mitchells & Butlers’ Sizzling Pubs chain has scooped the best Value Pub Restaurant title in the MIDAS awards (Menu Innovation and Development Awards).

Lancashire Seafood Pub Company opens second destination pub

05-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Lancashire based Seafood Pub Company has taken on its second destination pub.

Sales at UK wholesaler Booker increase 7.3%

05-Apr-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Sales at UK wholesaler Booker rose by 7.3% to £3.9bn in the year to 23 March like-for-like.

Peter's director buys Poole Pies

30-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Neil Court-Johnston has bought Wigan based Poole Pies from JJB Sports founder Dave Whelan.

Bath Ales focuses on food

29-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Brewer and pub operator Bath Ales is focusing on driving food sales across its estate.

EBLEX improves Quality Standard Scheme

28-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

EBLEX has strengthened the scheme standards for its Quality Standard Mark (QSM) beef and lamb.

Emulate casual-dining, pubs urged

28-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Pubs need to branch out into the casual-dining sector to survive, foodservice consultancy Horizons has warned.

Peter's launches food brochure

26-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Peter’s Food Service has launched a brochure cataloguing over 1,000 products.

Booker launches improved cheese range

26-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Food and drink wholesaler Booker has revamped its cheese category.

Eggleton launches Bristol pop-up restaurant

22-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

The Michelin-starred Pony & Trap pub is behind a pop-up restaurant in Bristol next month.

Pieminister plans sales push to pubs

22-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Pie maker Pieminister is planning to double the number of pubs it supplies in the next year.

Pubs slow to use online booking systems

14-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Pubs are not utilising national online booking facilities as well as their restaurant counterparts.

Taylor Walker pubs cater for tourists

13-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Spirit Pub Company’s Taylor Walker brand has introduced its menus in several languages for tourists.

Stonegate pubs in menu revamp

13-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Stonegate Pub Company is launching its spring/summer menus across the majority of its 560-strong estate.

Fifth pub for Provenance Inns

07-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

North Yorkshire based Provenance Inns has taken on its fifth site and its first in a town centre.

Pubs face food-price woe

07-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Margins on non-drink offerings in pubs will take another hit this year as food and beverage cost inflation remains high.

Young's top manager to boost London pub

02-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Young’s Pub Company has asked its top manager to turn around the fortunes of an under-performing pub as part of a profit-share agreement.

Virus to increase cost of lamb for pubs

01-Mar-2012 By Lesley Foottit

The virus affecting newborn lambs may price pub chefs out of the lamb market this spring.

Welsh pub loses trade after council forbids A-boards

24-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

A Welsh pub has lost 90% of its trade since being forced to remove A-boards from a nearby main road.

Two food staff boost St Austell’s offer

22-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

St Austell has taken on two new staff to improve the estate’s food offer.

Shepherd Neame opens pub fish & chip shop

22-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has transformed a London pub to include a traditional fish & chip shop.

Devonshire Arms pub closes again

21-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Gordon Ramsay’s former pub the Devonshire Arms in Chiswick, west London, has closed less than a year after re-opening.

Nestle Toque D'Or to launch at Hotelympia

17-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Nestlé Professional’s Nestlé Toque d’Or launches on 28 February at Hotelmpia.

Kerridge picks pubs worthy of two stars

16-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Tom Kerridge, winner of the Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs 2012, has predicted more pubs will follow in his footsteps and achieve two Michelin stars.

Pub Pie competition finalists revealed

14-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

The chefs in the running for being crowned Britain’s 2012 Pub Pie Champion have been whittled down to five.

Toasting our gastropubs

09-Feb-2012 By Mike Berry

Think what you like about the term ‘gastropub’, it provides an instantly recognisable phrase to the public about what they should expect when stepping into such a pub.

Hand & Flowers crowned top gastropub 2012

07-Feb-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Two Michelin-starred the Hand & Flowers scooped the coveted number one place at the Top 50 Gastropubs Awards, held yesterday (6 Feb)

Meal-for-£1 host vows to quit trade

31-Jan-2012 By Adam Pescod

A Staffordshire licensee who had been attempting to keep his pub afloat by selling meals for one pound has had to call time on the business amid falling profits and upwardly spiralling costs.

Booker bumps up range

30-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Food and drink wholesaler Booker is adding a number of products to its range.

Parky’s pub to add eight bedrooms

30-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

A Michelin-starred pub is extending its restaurant and adding letting rooms.

F Word-winning licensees leave pub

25-Jan-2012

The owners of the pub that was crowned Best British Restaurant on Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word in 2010 have left the business.

Thurlby Group adds pub

19-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

The Thurlby Group has added a sixth pub to its portfolio and it is already serving 1,000 covers a week.

Pony & Trap unveils book to mark 2011

19-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Michelin-starred Somerset pub the Pony & Trap has launched a book to commemorate a successful year.

Booker launches a ‘foodservice force’

18-Jan-2012 By Jo Bruce

Food wholesaler Booker is launching a new foodservice delivery business that will compete against Brakes and 3663.

McCoy's links up with darts league

16-Jan-2012 By Noli Dinkovski

McCoy’s is to become the title sponsor of the PDC Premier League darts competition in a three-year deal.

TV show finalist sells share in pub

12-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Great British Menu finalist Tim Bilton has sold his share in his second pub and is on the hunt for a freehold and a Michelin star.

PMA award winner takes on Battersea pub

11-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

A Publican’s Morning Advertiser food award winner has opened a pub in London’s Battersea.

Spirit head of food exits

10-Jan-2012

Paul Farr has left Spirit Pub Company after seven-and-a-half years as its head of food.

Discount vouchers remain popular for eating out

05-Jan-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Two-thirds of people have used a discount voucher when eating out, although just 18% say they go out more often as a result of the vouchers, according to new survey from Deloitte.

Publican fights to make Stilton

05-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

A Cambridgeshire licensee is appealing for the right to produce Stilton despite it being a protected product.

3663 launches foodservice app

03-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

Wholesaler 3663 has launched the first foodservice ordering app for iPhones and iPads.

Feast opens first pub

03-Jan-2012 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Feast, the Gloucestershire-based premium catering and hospitality company, is to operate its first pub after securing the Swan in Berkshire.

Marco Pierre White in three new pub ventures

03-Jan-2012 By Lesley Foottit

TV chef Marco Pierre White has acquired two sites from Merchant Inns with another venture due to launch in March.

Whitbread to meet FY expectations

13-Dec-2011 By Mark Wingett

Whitbread, the owner of Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, said this morning that it was on track to meet full-year expectations, as it reported a rise in like-for-like sales across all its divisions for the 13 weeks to 1 December, but warned that trading continued...

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