Grant to RoadChef
Former head of Inn Partnership Martin Grant is to head motorway service-station chain RoadChef. He will succeed John Greenwood, who has been in...
Archives for April 21, 2004
Gerry Martin takes on 2nd London pub
Pub entrepreneur Gerry Martin has taken on a second central London pub five months after opening the Springbok sports bar in Covent Garden. Martin...
Laurel honours its top pubs
The Skyrack in Leeds, which makes £1m a year in profit, and Casa in Solihull have been named as Laurel Champion Pubs of the Year in a glittering...
Hooked, line and sinker
It may be run today as a modern drinks business, but beer writer Roger Protz could not help feeling he was in an enchanted time warp when he visited...
Legal advice: All clear?
David Clifton revisits aspects of the draft guidance.In September of last year I wrote about the draft of the statutory guidance to licensing...
Sharp's Brewery
Who are they? The brewer, based in Rock, Cornwall, celebrates its 10th birthday this year, and in its relatively short life has become a mainstay of...
Change the public image of beer
The Morning Advertiser is backing an industry campaign to boost the reputation of beer and improve standards of dispense in pubs. This week Paul...
Management errors see brewery bite the dust
Iremember, as a young journalist in the 1960s, the excitement that bubbled the length of Fleet Street when Draught Guinness first arrived in Britain....
Red card for Yellow Card drinks
Mitchells & Butlers has been forced to axe the alcohol offers that form part of its Yellow Card student discount scheme at its It's a Scream in...
Big Tim has gone over the top this time'
I think the reaction of leaders and letters in the trade press says it all. Big Tim has gone OTT this time and I'm now more convinced than ever that...
MLC calls for menu clarity
The Meat & Livestock Commission (MLC) has warned top pub chains that vague menu descriptions will put customers off ordering meat. Only a...
Guinness to end UK brewing
by John Harrington Diageo has cited "over capacity" as the prime reason for closing its Park Royal brewery spelling the end of producing Guinness in...
Chance to snatch Merry Harriers
An historical food-led freehouse, set in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Devon/Somerset border, is up for grabs. The Merry...
Wozza destination
The increasing popularity of food-led pubs can only be enhanced by celebrity involvement, as David Marks found out at Antony Worrall-Thompson's...
Charles Wells' new £1.5m Eagle Centre is symbolic of the gia
Visit the Charles Wells brewery and the first thing you might notice is a modern steel and glass complex that wouldn't shame the swankiest City...
Half Moon enters new phase of ownership
The Half Moon, a traditional 16th-century thatched freehouse in Essex, has changed hands. The inn, which overlooks the village green at Belchamp St...
Heineken family tops trade rich list
A number of individuals and families in the pub, spirits and brewing industries, feature in the annual The Sunday Times rich list. The top 15, in...
Scottish Courage closes Tyne Brewery
Scottish Courage, the UK's leading brewer, has announced a second major brewery closure.Only three months after the closure of its Edinburgh-based...
Council to raise tax to cover cost of licensing regime
Camden Council plans to cover the cost of new licensing administration by asking residents to cough up.The controversial plan puts the council on a...
Areas clamp down on drink spiking
A new device to combat drink spiking the Spika Stoppa has been launched in south Wales, while in Southampton, a new anti-spiking campaign is...
Pubs Direct on defensive after 'rip-off' complaints
Would-be licensees have slammed a York-based company for failing to give them a route into the pub market.Pubs Direct, of Piccadilly, York, has been...
Wetherspoon's goes big on ale
by Tony Halsteadand The PMA Team JD Wetherspoon is to double the length of its annual beer festival to a fortnight. The festival, which starts on 4...
Licensees fined for barring gypsy
A licensee couple have been fined £1,000 after a gypsy was refused admission to their pub.Licensees Diana and Graham Russell were found guilty of...
Name The Hanging Mariner's Meal
Menu Description: Seafood, including scallops wrapped in bacon, king prawns, butterfly prawns, salmon bites wrapped in breadcrumbs, battered squid...