Opportunity knocks?
How many smokers do you have in your pub? You've probably got a rough idea. How many customers have walked past your pub because they have been put...
Archives for February 14, 2007
CAMRA: 1,300 pubs facing ruin
Figures show 56 pubs a month are closed permanently - 80 per cent of which are urban.
Key trading day boost from 3663
Foodservice company 3663 is rolling out a Key Trading Days package to help pubs boost trade on special days - like Valentine's. Marketing controller...
More than 1,300 pubs under threat, says CAMRA
More than 1,300 pubs are under threat from closure, says the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The consumer organisation is calling for communities to...
Smoke group gets political ally
The campaign group which is attempting to overturn the smoking ban has joined forces with the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Green Goblin unleashed on pub trade
Wychwood Brewery has launched a new six per cent cider targeted at the top-end of the resurgent cider market.Green Goblin, which is the result of a...
Kitchen refurb focus: Professional standards
Traditionally, a kitchen refurb is said to be the most expensive investment a pub makes. Although with many pubs currently being quoted vast sums for...
Chris Maclean: dark days
I suspect, like many licensees, I experience dark days. Days when everything seems black. When income doesn't meet expenditure. Bills await payment....
Snow brings mixed fortunes for publicans
Pubs around the UK experienced varying trading as a result of the bad weather conditions last week. Heavy snow hit many areas across the country on...
Return of the Beefeater
Looming out of the London fog, the imposing gateway to the Beefeater Distillery in Kennington, South London is flanked by two gas-powered lamps and...
Kitchen refurb focus: Tools for the trade
CookingMerrychef accelerated cooking ovenMerrychef's latest accelerated cooking oven is no ordinary oven, but it is designed for the most ordinary of...
Food with a Punch
PUB COMPANIES, on the leased and tenanted side at least, have traditionally had a fairly hands-off approach to food. Given that the tie is all about...
LETTERs
Strike a healthy price balance I am sending this letter to the Morning Advertiser as your editor, Andrew Pring, is probably best placed to make...