Snacks: Mine's a Mars bar
Selling chocolate in pubs continues to be an interesting challenge for many pubs and brand owners alike. To help assess the potential, Masterfoods...
Archives for January 17, 2007
Snacks: Spanish snacks
Leicester may be a long way away from Spain and its late-night café culture, but tapas is alive and well in one bar in the East Midlands city.The...
Wells & Young's snaps up Courage rights
Wells & Young's buys rights for Courage from Scottish & Newcastle UK.
Snacks: Snack with jackets
Everyone needs to wear a few extra layers to stave off the cold at this time of year, and it would seem that this applies even to that most perennial...
Beer and food matching: Nice and spicy
Oriental and Asian dishes and flavours continue to make a strong showing on pub menus. However, if customers - and more than a few publicans - are...
All together now...
I'd like to have lived in a Manns world. An innocent, charming world where moustaches, monocles and manners madeth the man; where men kept a snuffbox...
Holiday entitlement could cost hospitality sector £200m
Changes to holiday entitlement could cost the hospitality sector up to £200m, the British Hospitality Association (BHA) has warned.The plans - part...
Driving fans into bars
Golfers are known for liking beer and the fact there's two million regular players in the country presents a perfect opportunity for pubs to profit,...
Beer and food matching: Local pride
Consumers, it seems, love the idea of local produce, and many pub groups are making the most of this opportunity when developing menus. But what part...
Whitbread sells TGI Friday's for £70.4m
Whitbread has sold its interest in the TGI Friday's restaurant chain to ABN AMRO Capital and US group Carlson Restaurants Worldwide for £70.4m.The...
Back to basics: pub websites
So you've got a website? Congratulations. But is it doing you any good?At the end of the last century a lot of pubs suddenly decided they ought to...
Poker skill licensee guilty
licensee guilty of running unlicensed poker games after failing to persuade a jury it is a game of skill.
Rockstar writes to council about 'noisy' music pub
Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie - whose rock and roll antics are legendary - takes umbrage at venue.
Wells & Young's Brewing Company buys rights to Courage cask ale brands
Wells & Youngs Brewing Company (W&YBC) has stepped up a gear in the cask ale market by buying the rights to brew, market and sell the Courage...
Beer and food matching: Relationship issues
Beer's relationship with food is changing and its status is now rivalling that of wine at the dining table, believes Richard Fox, one of the regular...