E-pub: pukka tills for the Cock
You might have followed Jamie's Chef, the Channel 4 show in which Jamie Oliver chose the apprentice to run his latest gastronomic venture, and...
Archives for July 2, 2007
John Porter: Day one of the smoking ban
"Have you got another cigarette machine? This one's not ****ing working." It was not, perhaps, the most obvious question a family-led food pub could...
What the papers say - July 3, 2007
One of Britain's biggest pub groups Greene King has dismissed concerns about the smoking ban and said that sales on the day it came into force were...
Chris Maclean: smoke free and scared
Forty-eight hours into the ban. Am I alone in feeling it's kind of scary?On Saturday night there was talk of little else by smokers and non-smokers...
New era, new style
As pubs enter a new smoke-free era we are inevitably going to see a significant shift in the way they are used and as a result, designed. One company...
Little-known pub group buys historic brewery
A little-known pubco has bought Walsall's historic Highgate Brewery. Global Star, which operates around 100 pubs in the West Midlands, paid an...
Two thirds of Greene King customers give smoke-free pubs the thumbs up
Greene King chief executive Rooney Anand participated in polling the brewer's pub-going customers last Sunday to hear their views on the smoking...
Beer & food matching: Golden ale
Golden ale as a beer style had a few of our panel scratching their heads initially when we asked them to come up with a dish to match. We could do no...
E-pub: win a 'virtual queue' system!
A recent survey showed that people rated 'taking a long time to be served' as the second most annoying aspect of visiting a pub, club or bar, with...
Greene King looks for 'OpCo/PropCo' partner
Greene King is to look for a partner to co-own the 872 pubs currently not covered by existing securitisation arrangements.Announcing the group's...
E-pub: monitoring the ban
Whether it's reality TV or iconic images of the July 7 bombers about to attack London's transport network, modern Britain is clearly obsessed with...
S&N's UK first half operating profits down
Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) expects its UK operating profits to be lower in the first half than last year, thanks to rising input costs, poor...
E-pub: new online marketplace
A new online marketplace aims to help smaller businesses source food and drink.Inquirex.com tackles one of the big challenges facing independent pubs...
E-pub: the digital DJ
In the space of a couple of years technology has transformed the way we listen to music. The ability to download a personalised selection of tracks...
Newcomers: a first venture into the pub trade
Madnessnoun - the state of being mad; insanitySo what has possessed us to enter the licensed trade?A couple of years ago one of us (R) left the...
Newport back in the pub market
The Newport Pub Company has replenished its estate with the acquisition of Foden Inns, the four-strong, West-Midlands-based pub group, for an...
Pick of the pubs
The Duke of York is situated in Ditchingham, close to the Norfolk/ Suffolk borders, next to the market town of Bungay and near two caravan parks and...
Brewing the Burton way
It is a little known fact that Alistair Darby, managing director of Marston's Brewing Company, judges much about a person on first meeting them upon...
E-pub: biometrics in the pub
Fingerprints used to be the territory of detectives dusting for dabs at a crime scene. But technology is increasingly allowing governments and...