Day in the Life: keeping up standards
07-Mar-2007
All-day opening presents some challenges you may not have anticipated. You may have your staff rotas going like clockwork, for instance, but are you...
Day in the Life: lunch & afternoon
07-Mar-2007
For nearly 20 years now it's been possible for pubs to open through the afternoon. Surprisingly few take real advantage of it, though.Of course, in...
Wrong Choice?
07-Mar-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
It may still claim to be the most popular seaside resort in Europe - but Blackpool and the Pepsi Max Big One rollercoaster at the pleasure beach are...
St Patrick's Day: up for the craic!
05-Mar-2007
St Patrick's Day is always, as those pesky kids would say, "a large one". But this year it will be particularly large, because once in a while all...
St Patrick's Day: credit is Dew...
05-Mar-2007
An American point-of-sale poster featuring a burly Irish rugby player hangs prominently on the wall in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre in...
St Patrick's Day: raise a glass to the saint
05-Mar-2007
March is an eagerly anticipated month for licensees in Great Britain, and indeed around the world, as with it comes one of the most well established...
02-Mar-2007
FACT says a total of around 600 prosecutions have been brought for using Sky domestic contract to screen football in pubs.
02-Mar-2007
The Transport and General Workers Union has called on Home Office minister Tony McNulty to explain why SIA security staff are excluded from the EU...
Sainsbury's chief stands by company's record
01-Mar-2007
One of the biggest names in supermarkets has made a personal response to the accusations made by The Publican's Dump the Deals campaign.Sainsbury's...
Beware of advertising scam
01-Mar-2007
Scam advertising companies are stepping up their pursuit of licensees. The companies telephone the pub offering advertisements for magazines for...
01-Mar-2007
The Spirit Group, Punch Taverns' managed arm, has opened a new centre to train future managers. Following an investment of £60,000, the learning and...
Varying your menu is easier than you think
01-Mar-2007
Brakes channel marketing manager Anne Mulcahy shows you how to make the most of your offering without a major menu overhaul Trying new ideas for your...
Tips for hands that do dishes
01-Mar-2007
Check out our comprehensive round up of ideas, equipment and new products to make sure your food offer is a money-spinning winner from concept to...
Balancing act
01-Mar-2007
Relentlessly rising costs can lead hard-working hosts to despair of earning a decent living. Mr Y asks our experts for advice on making his business...
The breakfast club
01-Mar-2007
The new era of licensing means pubs are branching out into all kinds of out-of-hours activities. Catherine Quinn discovers the licensees getting up...
Hosts urged to reclaim bank charges
01-Mar-2007
Every licensee should check bank statements and look to claim back penalty bank charges - that's the view of Pub Accounting Company chairman Martin...
The size of the prize
27-Feb-2007
Pubs are changing. But we still don't know just how big the changes are going to be.Smoke is slowly drifting out of the pub door, and the smoking...
Keep them under pressure
27-Feb-2007
The Dump the Deals campaign is gaining real momentum. Our inboxes and letterboxes are being deluged with responses from licensees fully supporting...
EPub: online ordering on the up
27-Feb-2007
A growing number of licensees are recognising the commercial benefits of online ordering, according to new research. Barbox.com, the UK's leading...
EPub: intelligent tills
27-Feb-2007
Will Beckett seems slightly baffled when I turn up to meet him at his pub the Marquess Tavern, in Islington, London. "I don't get a lot of people...
EPub: the Brains behind Brains
27-Feb-2007
At SA Brains' head office near the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff over the last 12 months the regional brewer has introduced a dynamic new computer...
EPub: technology to slash your bills
27-Feb-2007
Suddenly, climate change is the new rock 'n' roll. It's on the agenda of every politician who wants to get elected next time around, and even George...
Competition: Go green and get lean!
23-Feb-2007
The Publican, in conjunction with British Gas Business, is today launching The Efficiency Factor, a nationwide competition to find the most energy...
Chris Maclean: horse trading
23-Feb-2007 By Chris Maclean
Sunday sees the start of the point-to-point season in the South East. For those who follow the horses this is the entry level competitive racing...
22-Feb-2007
Bolton Wanderers applies for licence reviews of five foreign satellite pubs around the Reebok Stadium
Hydes: profits drop sharply
22-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Manchester-based Hydes Brewery has reported a sharp drop in profits in its most recent year, after difficult times in its managed division and...
Fuller's grows its own chefs
22-Feb-2007
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that the route to fame - if not always fortune - in the pub food game is to run your own business. Food pubs that grab the...
Creating a cash cow
22-Feb-2007
David Sax tells Ewan Turney how he transformed the run down Cow in Parkstone, Dorset, into the MA's Pub of the Year in just three years How I got...
For England and St George
22-Feb-2007
As the popularity of St George's Day grows, Rosie Davenport looks at how pubs can make the most of the celebrations Wells and Young's is encouraging...
BrandsBriefs
22-Feb-2007
Enotria signs with Thornbury Enotria Winecellars has signed an exclusive on-trade supply deal with New Zealand wine producer Thornbury. The New...
Move out of neutral...
20-Feb-2007
What's the story with vodka in pubs? It is the category in the on-trade with the largest number of new brands and new entrants to the market. And yet...
20-Feb-2007 By Rosie Davenport
The Portman Group is reviewing its Code of Practice for drinks marketing for the first time in five years - in response to "changing attitudes" to...
Manchester A&E staff to quiz drunks
15-Feb-2007 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u
Doctors and nurses in Manchester are to ask drunken patients where they had their last drink so that police can locate irresponsible pubs and clubs....
Back to basics: stress management
13-Feb-2007
Running pub is not a simple role in any terms especially not in its emotional impacts. The working hours that upset the rhythms of a conventional...
BII roadshows raise concerns about smoking ban preparations
13-Feb-2007
The opening rounds of a series of BII roadshows dedicated to the smoking ban raised concerns about troubled preparations for the start of the...
13-Feb-2007
Licensee gets 100 hours for showing on a domestic card.
Regent buys in to Brandasia
08-Feb-2007 By The PMA Team
Regent Inns has expanded further into the fast-casual dining market with a £500,000 investment in an upmarket Indian restaurant, Asha's. The...
Compulsory questions to stay on BII NCPLH
08-Feb-2007
Compulsory questions are to stay as part of England and Wales' most popular exam for licensees - despite the BII losing its battle over the...
08-Feb-2007
Admiral Taverns, the privately-owned tenanted pub company that runs 1,700 pubs, will have invested about £20m on capital schemes in its estate by...
Keep up to date with what's on the market
08-Feb-2007
Celebrate with lamb Now that Christmas turkey is well and truly banished from pub menus, attention turns to Easter, with lamb taking a seasonal star...
We did it Norway
08-Feb-2007
Charlie Edgeler tells Ewan Turney how he and partner Carole Slingo achieved £1m worth of sales at the St Austell-owned Norway Inn in...
Training the taste buds
08-Feb-2007
To make the most of your wine list, it's essential to train your staff effectively. Alison Carter shares her experience As licensees, training...
Website's many happy returns
08-Feb-2007
After just 12 months, MA's online edition has become a vital addition for licensees who just can't help coming back. Iain O'Neil outlines what's on...
Pie in the sky TV deals costly
08-Feb-2007
It is quite unnerving to find so many licensees still prepared to risk large sums of money to install foreign decoders when they have been told...
Day in the Life: case study
07-Feb-2007
For most of us, 50 miles north of Inverness sounds like a reasonable definition of 'off the beaten track'. However, it's here, where the Scottish...
Day in the Life: chameleons and day parts
07-Feb-2007
Long gone are the days when pubs shut in the afternoon after a three-hour trading session and opened at five ready for the evening.It does seem...
Day in the Life: Morning
07-Feb-2007
There have always been pubs that thrived on breakfast trade. Special licences were issued for those next to markets to enable the porters to slake...
Fuller's sends out smoke signals
07-Feb-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci
Fuller's is gearing up for the smoking ban by a newsletter to customers in its pubs. The campaign, designed to educate people about the precise...
Cricket World Cup: Caley's All Rounders
02-Feb-2007
With two employees playing for Scotland in the Cricket World Cup, Caledonian Brewery's seasonal beer for March is All Rounder and features Ryan...
Cricket World Cup: TV guide
02-Feb-2007
If the British pub industry had put together an international cricket tournament to suit itself, it really couldn't have organised it any better than...
