Legal advice: Guarding against slipping and tripping
Statistics show slipping and tripping to be the single most common cause of injuries in UK workplaces.During 2006, slips and trips resulted in:-...
Archives for June 12, 2007
Typhoo gets fruity
With growing consumer interest in fruit and herb tea, Typhoo is launching a new range available exclusively to the foodservice market.Offered under...
Live Entertainment: Morris dancing
There is something impenetrably mysterious about Morris dancing. No one quite seems to know how it started, and the way it has finished up offers few...
Beware 'cowboy' rate advisers
The recent Scamwatch campaign run by The Publican has highlighted the wide range of areas where hard- pushed licensees are susceptible to...
Pubs left out of streamlined EU rules on organic food
Pubs will be exempt - for now - from new European Union (EU) rules on food labeling designed to make it easier for consumers to identify organic and...
Live Entertainment: karaoke
Love it or hate it, karaoke has become an established feature of the pub entertainment scene over the past couple of decades and it doesn¹t seem...
Energy-contract warning for hosts
Licensees and operators are urged to be careful to avoid paying penalty fees while agreeing to energy contracts. Energywatch said they increasingly...
Live Entertainment: jazz nights
"Well, you take some skin," as Bing Crosby so pithily observed to Louis Armstrong in High Society, "and jazz begins."In fact, there's a bit more to...
In Season: Serve up the best of British
Claire Power, product marketing manager, fresh produce, Pauleys: June sees the start of much British produce becoming available again. This includes...
Glass: police ignore Gov't line
Police are continuing to call for blanket glass bans despite advice to the contrary from the Government, published in its National Alcohol Strategy....
What the papers say - June 13, 2007
The definition of GM-free food was relaxed last night as European ministers decided to allow a greater proportion of genetically-modified material...
Chris Maclean: greed's not for me
This month's BII magazine has an article entitled "Time to squeeze some extra margin", written by a stocktaker.A more dispiriting article showing the...
Live Entertainment: stand-up comedy
"It's usually funny and, when it's not, it's barbed and beautiful." So says the host of a cutting edge comedy night that has been splitting the sides...
Pick of the pubs
The Craw Inn is located in the rural village of Auchencrow near Reston, Berwickshire, yet is only one mile from the main East Coast arterial road,...