Operations

What a way to run a business

02-Feb-2006 By PHIL DIXON

Licensed trade writer PHIL DIXON is fearful that other pubcos will feel compelled to follow the lead set by Provence and take the no-tie-high-rent...

Pub Breakfasts - New paninis, healthier beans and tomato ketchup offer

01-Feb-2006

New breakfsat offers

Equipment - Just Launched

01-Feb-2006

Pubchef's round-up of the latest launches Glassware and tabletop products distributor John Artis is introducing a range of porcelain tableware from...

Equipment - Cream of the Crop

01-Feb-2006

PubChef's focus on equipment gets a new look this month as leading suppliers help you choose the right kit. Highly recommended... microwaves Ray...

Tried and Tested - A Question of Taste

01-Feb-2006

In the first of a new series, three licensees and their customers give their views on a range of products designed to make life easier in pub...

Battle of the Chefs - Sauce Material

01-Feb-2006 By Alison Baker

Battle of the Chefs is sponsored by Knorr Garde D'Or - a ange of high quality and convenient ready-to-use sauces from Unilever Foodsolutions. Created...

Money Spinners - Cash generating ideas

01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor

Hosts and chefs tell Mark Taylor about some of their cash-generating ideas. Tapas nights Where: Smiles Brewery Tap, Bristol How it works: Rather than...

The Surgery - Ways to give your sharing platters a wider appeal

01-Feb-2006 By Ben Woodhouse

Dear Surgery: Platters are popular but some people steer away from them because they are perceived as fried food. What can I do to make them appeal...

The Surgery - Get Ready for new Hygiene Regulations

01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor

Dear Surgery: How will the Food Standards Agency's proposed food hygiene laws affect pubs serving food? The Surgery says: The controversial new...

RENTWATCH

26-Jan-2006

Licensee Paul Dearing thought fate had dealt him a cruel hand when Punch decided to more than triple his rent at the Kings Arms in Newport, East...

Proud of Your Staff: Wateredge Inn, Cumbria

26-Jan-2006

The team at the family-run Wateredge Inn in Ambleside, Cumbria, are the latest to be nominated for The Publican's Proud of Your Staff...

The benefits of barbox.com - by the £250m man

26-Jan-2006

Jim Watson's weekly beer order from Coors and the Newcastle Federation Brewery has pushed the annual sales of barbox.com past the £250m mark for the...

Underage clampdown seems to be paying off

26-Jan-2006

Underage sting operations have resulted in managed operators tightening procedures and have had a positive impact on combating underage drinking,...

Row over 'closed period' football screenings

25-Jan-2006

A Newcastle licensee has attacked football chiefs for allowing one city bar to show live matches on Saturday afternoons. No pubs are permitted to...

Hold your Horses

25-Jan-2006

The new licensee at Soho's renowned Coach & Horses has retained the pub's unique character rather than going for a gastropub make-over, achieving...

Limber up for the Six Nations

24-Jan-2006

Brewers are all set to capitalise on rugby fans taking to the pubs during the tournament - so let them help you, advises Phil Mellows.Tetley's, the...

Chip and PIN deadline looms

24-Jan-2006

Licensees are preparing for the full rollout of the Chip and PIN programme with the deadline just over two weeks away. From February 14 anyone paying...

National Pubs Week: Party on

20-Jan-2006

As winter drags on, now is the time to promote your pub. And that's where National Pubs Week can help, says Daniel Pearce.April may have been the...

How to put the fizz back into New Year

19-Jan-2006 By Iain O'Neil

New Year conjures up visions of late-night drinking, Auld Lang Syne, fireworks and bottles of bubbly. But has the fizz and bang disappeared from the biggest night of the year and, if so, why? Iain O'Neil reports

The early bird profits

19-Jan-2006

January is generally a quiet time for pubs - but the busiest for the pub sales market. By Paul Davey.January and February are usually the quietest...

Support builds for St George's Day campaign

19-Jan-2006

The campaign to make St George's Day into a special day is now getting consumer support from national newspaper The Telegraph.The newspaper is to...

Be bold: push up prices

19-Jan-2006

customers are likely to be as receptive to a price rise now as they'll ever be

A third of BII hosts will quit over smoking ban

19-Jan-2006

One third of BII-member licensees will close their pubs if there is a total smoking ban, a new survey reveals. It comes as a total smoking ban in...

Train with the best and prepare for success

12-Jan-2006

Graham Rowson is the only licensee ever to win two consecutive National Industry Training Awards. He tells EWAN TURNEY how he's taken annual sales at the previously boarded-up Plungington Tavern in Preston, Lancashire, from a flat zero to £400,

Trade reaps benefits of'double Christmas Eve'

12-Jan-2006

New data supports the view that the two days before Christmas Day provided pubs with an exceptional takings boost. By contrast, New Year's Eve was...

'Icons of England' list recognises status of pubs and pints

12-Jan-2006 By Iain O'Neil

The traditional English pub and a pint of real ale have both made it on to a list of what it means to be English. The Government's list of Icons of...

Police brand Christmas drink-drive figures 'unacceptable'

11-Jan-2006

Police have branded the latest drink-drive figures as "unacceptable" despite a slight drop in the number of drivers involved in accidents testing...

Trouble shooting

10-Jan-2006

Calling in an independent expert can help your pub business to thrive. Phil Mellows reports.The next couple of months will test the health of every...

My Shout - Stepehen Oliver MD of Union Pub company

05-Jan-2006 By Stephen Oliver

What will 2006 bring? Stephen Oliver hopes the police will put more effort into cutting crime and less into haranguing hosts

Work hard to win in 2006

05-Jan-2006 By Andrrew Pring

Every extra game for england in the world cup will be an extra christmas for pubs, says MA Editor Andrew Pring.

barbox.com set for a landmark 2006

05-Jan-2006

The future is bright for barbox.com

Banks host with 'damaged' Brulines kit will not be fined

05-Jan-2006

A West Midlands licensee has claimed faults in his Brulines beer monitoring equipment led to a bill for £1,700 for buying out. But Brulines insists...

Training to win

04-Jan-2006

The pub industry is showing that it is meeting the many challenges facing it as the best trainers in the business were rewarded at the BII NITA...

CITY BRIEFS

15-Dec-2005

JDW founder nets £1.2m from share sale JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has made his first share sale for a number of years. Martin has sold...

Review panel reveals 'botched' transition

15-Dec-2005

I have been reading with some interest the recently published Interim Report of the Licensing Fees Review Panel which was set up principally to look...

Getting a grip on New Year's Eve

15-Dec-2005

Recently on this page, I answered a question about New Year's Eve this year, following which I had an interesting discussion about entertainment pubs...

Chuck out that Christmas chintz

15-Dec-2005

Celebrate the festive season with good food and drink, says Adam Edwards - and let's ban the singing reindeers from our pubs For 11 months of the...

Winners celebrate awards glory

15-Dec-2005

list of competition winners

Rowson takes top award at the NITAs

12-Dec-2005

Lancashire licensee Graham Rowson was once again named 'Licensee Trainer of the Year' at the BII's NITA Awards.Graham, who runs the Plungington...

Michael Hall is Proud of His Staff

12-Dec-2005

The small team of staff at the New Inn, Buckingham, are the latest to be nominated for The Publican's Proud of your Staff initiative. Licensee...

Maximise when you mechanise

08-Dec-2005

Want to offer customers more without the need for extra staff? Vending machines, says GRAHAM RIDOUT, could be the answer.

Pubcos challenge FA over TV football ban

08-Dec-2005

Hosts go to court as Spirit Group and Greene King question the legality of Saturday 'closed period' by John Harrington Around 100 Spirit Group and...

Pubco forced to pay Sky £65,000 damages

08-Dec-2005

by Lucy Britner North London pub company Irish Pubs has had to pay £65,000 in damages to Sky for illegally showing football at 11 pubs. Sky...

Secrets of my success

08-Dec-2005

Anthony Mears has increased turnover at his pub, the Ivy House in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, five-fold in under 10 years. He tells EWAN...

Heavyweight thriller

08-Dec-2005

by Lawrence Dutrieux There is rumble in the jungle in the English boxing scene as the biggest all-British heavyweight fight in more than a decade...

Anti-pub media slated by frustrated licensees

08-Dec-2005

by Lucy Britner Frustrated licensees who back the Morning Advertiser's campaign to 'Lay off my Local' are increasingly fed up with the hysterical...

Open books: open mind

08-Dec-2005

For once, The interests of pubco and licensee may be completely coterminous here. Many licensees will be cynical about the trend among pubcos to...

Clubs can't sell alcohol to outsiders

08-Dec-2005

Of course, it is early days and the new licensing system has to bed down. But there still remains the rather confused situation about members' clubs....