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...
01-Mar-2011 By John Harrington
Alcohol Concern has called for a ban on supermarket alcohol sales near everyday items such as milk and bread. A survey across one day in Cardiff by...
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).
28-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
AB InBev boss Stuart MacFarlane says pubs should embrace new concepts. Phil Mellows asked six operators how they get their business ideas.
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 John Harrington
New rules on responsible alcohol marketing online should be familiar to the drinks industry, which has "led the way" in self-regulation online.
25-Feb-2011 By Ian Boughton
Modern EPoS set-ups are now so advanced they can provide complete pub management systems, saving time and money, reports Ian Boughton.
25-Feb-2011 By Steve Haslam
Steve Haslam explains how he has kept TLC Inns booming through constant and careful investment.
Caroline Nodder: It is this wealth of ideas from the grassroots which fuels our sector
25-Feb-2011 By Caroline Nodder
I had the honour last week of being asked to judge the final of the Pilsner Urquell Czech Challenge competition, which saw licensees compete for a...
Licensee scoops £10k prize for cinema brainwave
25-Feb-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Licensee Mitchel Adams from the Thatchers Arms pub in Mount Bures, Essex, has picked up £10,000 in a competition run by Czech beer Pilsner Urquell....
24-Feb-2011 By John Porter
John Porter offers ideas on how to get roast sales booming at your pub including tips on perfecting those roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings.
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.
Banned customers named and shamed on Facebook
24-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
An innovative Pubwatch group has taken the unusual step of publicly naming and shaming 20 known troublemakers on its Facebook group. Licensees from...
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?...
23-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
New research that claims moderate drinking can bring health benefits is "misleading", according to alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware. The British...
22-Feb-2011 By Phil Mellows
Everards Brewery has been the unlikely source of some radical innovation in pub tenancies since Stephen Gould took charge, reports Phil Mellows.
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.
21-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Drunk people should pay for the treatment they receive at accident and emergency units, a patients' group has suggested. The Scotland Patients...
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.
18-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
VC2, the owner of Stiffy's vodka drink, is launching a concerted push for the drink into the English and Welsh on-trade after signing a deal with...
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...
Beds and Bars boss: 'Olympics will create chaos'
17-Feb-2011
The 2012 Olympics are a rip-off that could damage the British economy for a decade. That's the view of Keith Knowles, managing director of Beds And...
17-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
A father and son have received a record fine for screening Premier League football matches at 11 pubs via the internet.
17-Feb-2011 By Sapient Corporate Finance
Sapient Corporate Finance was established in 1997 to provide corporate finance advisory services to clients in the pub, bar, restaurant and broader...
17-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Following the news that banks will fund more small businesses, the MA looks at what it is likely to mean for pubs.
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.
'£23bn of extra red tape to fall on firms'
15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore
Businesses will be strangled by £23billion worth of extra red tape over the next four years, an alarming report warns today. The British Chambers of...
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 Lorraine Heller, Restaurant
The Minister of Tourism John Penrose has warned the hospitality sector to be wary of a 'displacement effect' that could be caused by the Olympics....
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...
Make St Patrick's Day a weekend in pubs
14-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
St Patrick's Day is a huge event for British pubs, but there's an opportunity to make an extended weekend of it this year, reports Michelle Perrett.
14-Feb-2011 By Ewan Turney
The Government should invest in alcohol health workers in every hospital if they are serious about cutting alcohol-related admissions, according to...
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.
10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
The Government has only to look at France to see why a tax reduction on food would help create jobs and lower prices for consumers, says The PMA Team.
10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team
Market Town Taverns, the Yorkshire free-of-tie operator led by Ian Fozard, has reported a 30% increase in profit for its most recent year. The...
Mark Daniels: The Premier League versus the advocate general
10-Feb-2011
If I want to buy a new car, it's perfectly legal for me to go and purchase one in Europe. I can either drive over to the manufacturer and pick it up,...
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 John Harrington
The promise by major banks to increase lending to small businesses should be welcomed by pub operators, says Christie Finance.
09-Feb-2011 By Michelle Perrett
Michelle Perrett reports on a debate hosted by Unilever Food Solutions about nutritional labelling on menus.
09-Feb-2011 By Peter Coulson
Morning Advertiser legal editor Peter Coulson considers what the general advocate's opinion on foreign satellite systems means.
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.
