Back to Basics: pest control
27-Jun-2007
There nasties that creep, crawl and buzz. There are critters that will torment your customers and hover around their food or drink. And there are...
Spirit pub fined over hygiene breaches
25-Jun-2007
Spirit Group has been fined £17,500 for seven breaches of food hygiene rules at an Edinburgh pub.The managed pub operator, owned by Punch Taverns,...
21-Jun-2007 By Peter Coulson
Peter Coulson, MA legal expert, looks at the issues around gaming licences
Campaigners urge end to live music red tape
21-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
The battle to save live music in pubs has been stepped-up following the final submission of an 80,000-signature petition to the Prime Minister. The...
The way of the Dragon
21-Jun-2007
Copper Dragon boss Steve Taylor invites Tony Halstead into his lair and reveals how he plans to expand without compromising his beliefs Real-ale...
BrandsBriefs
21-Jun-2007
Cellar Trends builds range Cellar Trends is beefing up the range it offers pubs after winning the rights to a new tranche of brands. Gruppo Campari...
Back to basics: coping with stress?
20-Jun-2007
IT IS a sad fact that many pub staff will encounter some form of violence in their working lives. It could be witnessing aggressive customers...
Chris Maclean: this sporting life
19-Jun-2007 By Chris Maclean
This morning I received two letters from Sky television advising me of a recent court case where they prosecuted a licensee for illegally showing...
Careers: Secret is in the sauce
19-Jun-2007
FOR MARK Blanchford, there's one word that sums it all up - piccalilli.For the uninitiated, that may need a little more explanation. Mark, the...
Careers: Coming of age
19-Jun-2007
SHORTEST, TALLEST, strongest, fastest it pays to be wary of people claiming to have broken records because it can be difficult to verify the more...
Careers: Josie's service with a smile
19-Jun-2007
The first thing that hits you about BII Scotland's new barperson of the year, Josie McCready, is her indefatigable spirit. "It takes a lot to get me...
Careers: Learning on the job
19-Jun-2007
They are the unchampioned, usually unseen workforce that prepares bars for the next session of trading while they are closed. Without them the...
Careers: Can't get the staff?
19-Jun-2007
Pub kitchens could be facing a staffing crisis as licensees increase their emphasis on food in the wake of the smoking ban.Recruitment agencies...
Back to Basics: electricity supplies - how not to get ripped off
18-Jun-2007
The list of things you have to do on your first day in a new pub is daunting. You are in a race to get everything done and be prepared for your first...
Chris Maclean: the computer says no
18-Jun-2007 By Chris Maclean
Our dishwasher pump isn't working and I have phoned the engineers.Unfortunately there is a problem. They want me to give them my credit card details...
We have promotional problems
17-Jun-2007
Brand owners need to sharpen up their act when it comes to drinks promotions in pubs and bars, according to exclusive research.A survey of more than...
Cellar to Glass: line cleaning
15-Jun-2007
Attend any cellar management course and one of the lessons that will be driven home to you over and over again is that you must clean your beer lines...
Cellar to Glass: the surgery's open!
15-Jun-2007
Tech services have been brought into the 21st century with the launch of a trouble-shooting beer quality website for publicans.By logging onto...
Cellar to Glass: the perfect pub?
15-Jun-2007
There's one sure-fire way for a company supplying the pub trade to prove wrong licensee critics who say they don't understand their livelihoods....
£1m tonic for dying Swan
14-Jun-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
Marston's has sold the Swan at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, from the El-dridge Pope estate it acquired in January. The business has been...
Match point
14-Jun-2007
Don't miss this opportunity to win £10,000 in Hardys' food-and-wine matching competition Hardys, in association with Matthew Clark, has launched a...
14-Jun-2007 By John Harrington
Sky is extending its cut-price football offer for pubs until 22 June and adding new sports to the package. Sky is freezing its basic subscription...
MARKETING MUSCLE
14-Jun-2007
A round-up of the latest campaigns Mateus Rosé Mateus Rosé has invested £1.5m in a new TV advertising campaign for the summer. To drive home the...
Live Entertainment: stand-up comedy
13-Jun-2007
"It's usually funny and, when it's not, it's barbed and beautiful." So says the host of a cutting edge comedy night that has been splitting the sides...
Live Entertainment: jazz nights
13-Jun-2007
"Well, you take some skin," as Bing Crosby so pithily observed to Louis Armstrong in High Society, "and jazz begins."In fact, there's a bit more to...
Live Entertainment: karaoke
13-Jun-2007
Love it or hate it, karaoke has become an established feature of the pub entertainment scene over the past couple of decades and it doesn¹t seem...
Live Entertainment: Morris dancing
13-Jun-2007
There is something impenetrably mysterious about Morris dancing. No one quite seems to know how it started, and the way it has finished up offers few...
BII to put Best Bar None on national stage
08-Jun-2007
A new move to put the Best Bar None (BBN) scheme on a national stage is being spearheaded by the BII. Together with the Home Office and Greater...
Sky extends Football+ deadline
08-Jun-2007 By James Wilmore
Sky has extended the deadline on its Football+ offer until June 22, it was announced today. The broadcaster is offering to freeze pubs' current...
Plan of action
07-Jun-2007
The long-awaited revised Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy has received tentative backing from the trade. Pubs and the drinks industry have gone...
Heading the family way
07-Jun-2007
They may be small in stature and easy to trip over, they may have runny noses and grazed knees, but as we enter a smoke-free age, there's one...
A glorious summer of football
07-Jun-2007 By Richard Ross
Now that England's vital Euro 2008 qualifier in Estonia is out of the way, it's time for the under-21 side to step into the spotlight. Stuart...
If you pour it, they will come
07-Jun-2007
David Hancock finds out how wine buff Jonathan Dunne, owner of the Albert Arms in Esher, Surrey, runs his pub in tandem with a thriving wine business...
Do your homework
07-Jun-2007
Research and careful pre-planning are essential when it comes to buying a pub, says Minesh Patel, a licensed trade property solicitor at Stevensdrake...
Banking on the future
07-Jun-2007
Alex Rowland is thinking of buying a leasehold pub, but has concerns about the rent and raising additional finance My wife and I are looking into...
Seven successful years of online trading for barbox.com
07-Jun-2007
Online ordering outfit barbox.com has come a long way since its launch in 2000, and seven years later the company is showing no signs of slowing...
England cubs need final flourish
07-Jun-2007 By Richard Ross
The European Under-21 Football Championships come to a close this weekend when the top two sides in the competition meet in Satur-day's final. When...
SNP to take action against promotions
06-Jun-2007
Scotland's new Scottish National Party government aims to take early action to curb deep discounted off trade drink promotions.Cabinet Secretary for...
Back to Basics: internet marketing
01-Jun-2007
So you've sorted out your external signage, made friends with the local paper, leafleted the area and run some impressive promotions. Great. But...
Project update 4: Quids in
31-May-2007
The prospect of being thousands of pounds better off each month is one to put a smile on the face of any licensee. This is the opportunity that...
BII supports alcohol education for young
31-May-2007 By Eleanor Goodman
The BII have supported calls for more alcohol education for young people, after an investigation revealed arrests of under 2'5s for drink-driving are...
31-May-2007 By Andrew Pring
Young's delivered a sparkling set of full-year results today, with pre-tax profits up 18.5% (post exceptionals) to £12 million and managed house...
We're listening
31-May-2007
Nigel Anstead tells Joe Lutrario how talking to customers, organising events and taking care of staff doubled sales and tripled net profits over two...
12 Ian Payne Laurel chairman (14) Paul Symonds Laurel chief executive (new entry)
31-May-2007
Why they are on the list: Payne made a spectacular return to the trade last year when he replaced Chris Hutt as chairman of Laurel - a company he...
The magic of mixing
31-May-2007
Cocktails are starting to make their way onto pub menus. But many outlets are still uneasy about offering them. Rosie Davenport reports Simply...
BrandsBriefs
31-May-2007
Father's Day ads for Coors Coors is to launch a series of posters in Yorkshire for its 3.7% abv Stones ale. In an advertising campaign designed to...
Trade bemoans bank holiday washout
31-May-2007
Licensees across the country are counting the cost of a monsoon bank holiday weekend that washed out hopes of a major financial return for thousands...
Little brand made good
30-May-2007
It might surprise many to know that the most widely talked about cask beer brand right now is not one of the big regional brewers' beers. Nor is it...
Back To Basics: Cellar Management
30-May-2007
WHEN IT comes to qualifications to run a pub, the Award in Beer Cellar Quality (ABCQ) must be one of the strongest. The nationally-recognised...
Reassurance needed
30-May-2007
THE PUBCO boss points at the fonts for Stella Artois, Artois Bock and Peeterman Artois, InBev's 'famille Artois', in one of his pubs. "What are they?...
