10-Mar-2011 By Phil Mellows
The upcoming royal wedding and bank holidays galore represent a big opportunity for pubs. Phil Mellows sees how party plans are progressing.
08-Mar-2011 By PubChef
Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub including a nostalgia night and Sunday roast take-away. Nostalgia night Where: Rose & Crown,...
04-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Licensees who have achieved the BII's beer and cellar quality award can now use it to count towards Government-recognised qualifications.
04-Mar-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Lesley Foottit looks at ways to ensure the presentation of your pub's menu delivers the right impression. Adding personality Individual Inns'...
Meter muddle continues
04-Mar-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
An investigation by The Publican has revealed that vast numbers of licensees could be paying too much for their power. Since we highlighted cases of...
03-Mar-2011 By PubChef
This month PubChef focuses on ideas for marketing your hot drinks offer and insights from licensees on what is working for them. Innsider...
Neighbour complains about pub's 'racist' name
01-Mar-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub has just re-opened its doors to the public but only after being accused of having a racist name by a neighbour. Lucy and Mark Barron-Reid were...
28-Feb-2011 By John Harrington
Tributes have been paid to Alec Roud, BII founding member and chairman of the BII Wessex region, who died on Thursday (24 February).
BII course should 'reduce churn'
28-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A course designed to improve the standards of Business Development Managers (BDMs) should result in a drastic drop in churn, according to a trade...
25-Feb-2011 By Steve Haslam
Steve Haslam explains how he has kept TLC Inns booming through constant and careful investment.
24-Feb-2011 By John Harrington & Michelle Perrett
Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns plan to roll out the new BII (British Institute of Innkeeping) qualification aimed at improving the standards of business development managers (BDMs) across their entire leased and tenanted estates.
23-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Next month one of the country's longest-serving pub tenants, Daphne Cutten, retires from the Murrell Arms after 47. Phil Mellows finds out more.
Martin Dinkele: What do we want modern pubs to be?
23-Feb-2011
If year zero for pubs was tomorrow what would they be like? Or, what do we want pubs to be in order to be successful and relevant in a modern world?...
22-Feb-2011 By Sheila McWattie
Rick Bowman, co-licensee at the Stag in Ongar, Essex, tells Sheila McWattie how he enlisted the help of local people to transform the pub. How we...
21-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Making the most of the racing calendar is a win-win for licensees. Michelle Perrett takes a closer look at the potential of racing in pubs.
18-Feb-2011 By Sheila McWattie
Sheila McWattie looks at how to make the most of confectionery in your pub including beer and chocolate matching and themed bedrooms.
17-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Despite success in other retail sectors, the idea of loyalty cards hasn't caught on in the pub — yet, reports Phil Mellows.
Employment Law: The wrong way to rebrand a business
17-Feb-2011
With food-led pubs weathering the economic storm better than most, it is no surprise that London's first gay pub has been turned into a gastropub...
16-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
The Harp in Covent Garden is named CAMRA National Pub of the Year 2010 today — licensee Bridget Walsh shares her recipe for success.
Horror as pub's electricty bill goes from £800 to £20k
16-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
A couple of licensees were left stunned when their quarterly electricity bill rocketed from £800 to a staggering £20,000. Rob Wilson, who runs the...
16-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows considers the proposals by Alcohol Concern to place alcohol specialists in every hospital.
15-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Florence Fowler, licensee at the Magdalen Arms, Iffley, talks to Lesley Foottit about bringing a bit of London to east Oxford. The S&NPC...
14-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Thirteen semi-finalists have been named in the BII Licensee of the Year competition 2011. Judges are looking for individuals or partnerships who...
11-Feb-2011 By Robyn Black
Steve Hardstone tells Robyn Black how the Jolly Farmer, in Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, maintains its edge over the competition.
Accommodation Pubs: Room to grow trade
10-Feb-2011 By Claire Dodd Claire
It is a truth universally acknowledged that staying in a pub, where a pint of decent beer is never more than a two-minute walk away, is way better...
10-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
As the social media revolution gathers pace pubs increasingly need to adopt a digital marketing strategy — or miss out. Ewan Turney looks at a...
09-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Michelle Perrett reports on a debate hosted by Unilever Food Solutions about nutritional labelling on menus.
08-Feb-2011 By Tony Halstead
As Tony Halstead finds, the turnover derived from staying, and paying, guests at pubs with accommodation can often overtake wet sales.
Martin Dinkele: Six things pubs can learn from coffee shops
08-Feb-2011
Did you see that report about the growth of coffee shops? 800 new shops opened in 2010. Allegra Strategies predict that the number of coffee shops...
07-Feb-2011 By Sonya Hook
Adding letting rooms to a pub can prove costly and create a fair bit of extra work, but, as Sonya Hook found out, the rewards can be considerable.
Pub Bitch: Tying your punters down
07-Feb-2011
Volunteer slaves There's an alternative use for a pub and then there's an alternative use for a pub. Having stood derelict for a number of years the...
Mark Daniels: Can you get a deal on Facebook?
03-Feb-2011
My friends would be amongst the first to tell you that I spend an unnecessarily large amount of time using Facebook and Twitter, and they're probably...
03-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
How do you ensure a fair representation on consumer review sites? Michelle Perrett investigates.
02-Feb-2011 By Tony Halstead
Paul Rogers tells Tony Halstead how he transformed a lowly roadside inn into the award-winning Railway Gastro Pub at Euxton in Lancashire.
Drive for pubs to take on apprentices
02-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs and bars are being urged to take on apprentices to secure the long term success of their businesses. The message was delivered at a...
02-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Celebrity chef John Torode has called on the government to back plans to promote healthy eating with an education strategy for chefs. He argued...
£10m marketing push for VK
31-Jan-2011 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
This month, VK gets both an updated bottle design and a £10 million marketing push to boost sales throughout 2011. The campaign, which will sport...
31-Jan-2011 By Phil Mellows
David George, joint Enterprise founder and finance director, retired last week. Phil Mellows meets the man behind Britain's biggest tenanted...
28-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
People in the licensed trade come from all sorts of backgrounds. This particularly exotic bunch tell Lesley Foottit how they've made the transition.
27-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII's dynamic approach to tackling the issues of the trade has laid the foundations for a more ambitious direction in the future, says The PMA Team.
27-Jan-2011 By Alastair Scott
In the first of a new column, the industry consultant and former M&B operations director Alastair Scott focuses on the importance of a hello.
26-Jan-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Angela Lewis tells Michelle Perrett about the importance of responding to changes in the market at the Lamb & Flag in Abergavenny.
BII welcomes newcomers to the trade
26-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Despite the pressures facing the industry, surveys regularly show many people still harbour dreams of running a pub. It appears that even in the...
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.
25-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
The BII has signed a deal worth £300,000 to sell the intellectual property rights to its Induction Training certificate into China. Chief executive...
24-Jan-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Michelle Perrett looks at ways pub caterers can make their pub menus healthier for the January detox.
21-Jan-2011 By Noli Dinkovski
With large pub companies still offloading quality outlets, there couldn't be a better time to set up a business with a food operation, says Noli Dinkovski.
21-Jan-2011 By Ewan Turney
The BII has offered an unreserved apology to high profile member Nigel Wakefield over the "negative impact" false allegations had on his reputation....
20-Jan-2011 By Robyn Black
The Australian wine category is faltering in the UK on-trade. Robyn Black says pubs should exploit what is a huge, and largely untapped, opportunity.
Employment Law: What to do if your staff get swine flu
20-Jan-2011
Last August the swine flu (H1N1 virus) pandemic was declared as 'over' by the World Health Organisation. But as we make our way through winter and...
