Calls grow for debate on 16-year-olds drinking in pubs
Trade leaders have joined calls for a debate on whether 16-year-olds should be able to drink in pubs and other on-licensed premises. They believe...
Archives for October 17, 2007
Business Opinion
Arguments against food get a hearing Reality checks are valuable things, aren't they? You know, grounding ambitious plans in the sub-soil of the...
Most pubs uninsured
Three out of four pubs and other small businesses risk fines of up to £2,500 a day because they don't have the right insurance. That is the stark...
THE AGENTS
Graham Allman Managing director GA-Select The great debates goes on. First off, are up-front fees ethical and professional, or just a ruse to take...
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Juniors in the bar area QWe have a junior dance group that meets in the mornings in the lounge-bar area of this pub because the local hall is...
What every good microbrewer should know
The assembled group comprised a smattering of the great and the good of the cask-beer world. The location was the Edgar Wallace pub in the centre of...
Regent aims for 100 Old Orleans
Regent Inns still believes it can triple the size of the Old Orleans restaurant brand it acquired from Punch last year to around 100 sites - despite...
Court closes con firms
Four firms that have conned pubs into paying for ads in nonexistent publications for the emergency services have been wound up. Wirral-based KDM...
LETTERs
Political solution for tenant benefit I am sure you are aware of the Government's decision to abandon plans for taxing managers who live at pubs. I...
Essex pub's menu goes back to nature
What Raymond Blanc can do with swanky restaurant Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons, so can Essex pub the Anchor.Since 2002, the Anchor has sourced...
Expert: Glass ban for all
A Scottish doctor believes Glasgow's glass ban should be rolled out to the whole country
Ale's golden age has dawned
There was a buzz of optimism at Lord's cricket ground last Saturday. No cricket was being played, of course: too cold and damp for that. The...
Q&A: Glen Cooper
Australian beers are largely seen in the UK as quite neutral thirst quenchers. How do the Coopers brands differ?It's chalk and cheese. The blandness...
Licensed Trade Charity attacks pubcos
Pub companies have been attacked by the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) for their "laughable" lack of support for its fundraising efforts.Speaking at...
MyShout
The delay of the general election carries mixed implications for the trade, says John Grogan MP My late father's political hero Harold Wilson's...
Responsible message gets across
Diageo GB says that its responsible drinking message has been effective, with two in three people likely to consider drinking sensibly having seen...
MA web users say food is no holy grail
Morning Advertiser website users have seconded the motion that "Food is not the future", which was debated by operators in Brighton last week. In a...
NewsDigest
Lord Clement Jones, the LibDem peer, has called for a review into the licensing of live music in pubs and other locations. His complaints centre...
Carlsberg angers free trade
Carlsberg has rocked the free trade by introducing a delivery supplement charge. The brewer will introduce a charge of £5 to all scheduled...
Pure and simple
Piers Lyon tells Humayun Hussain about his new chef, new menu and fresh look at the White Hart, in Welwyn Why my food business is a success We have...
S&N blasts "unwelcome move
Consolidation fever has swept through the UK's brewing sector after European giants Carlsberg and Heineken confirmed they were launching a bid for...
Licensees' daughter in X Factor final
The daughter of a licensee couple has made it to the finals of ITV's X Factor. Peter and Angie Southwick, of the Fox Inn, Dosthill, Tamworth,...
Everards plans buy-to-lease pub estate
Leicester family brewer Everards is looking to break out of its East Midlands heartland by buying pubs and leasing them to local microbrewers. The...
Too soon to allow drinking at 16
Last week's figures on underage drinking were a shot in the arm for the pub trade, and actually, to be fair, the off-trade too. Both sides of the...
Pete Robinson: It's illegal, it's immoral or it makes you fat
The latest news from Liverpool, the Dept of Health's testing ground, is that a recently empowered special health commission has unveiled 'innovative'...
Final scrumdown for England
While the thoughts of the nation will undoubtedly be preoccupied by the prospect of England's rugby union heroes retaining the World Cup, there's...
Pubs on the rural rollercoaster
Rural pubs have been in decline, but there is cause for optimism for those that remain - as long as they get their hospitality right, says Noli...
Meeting under-age targets
Now that the Government has published figures showing that the repeated blitzes on under-age sales have had the desired effect and that anyone under...
Mixed message on measures for Scots
Pubs in Scotland are reeling after being fined for selling short measures and then being slammed by trading standards officers for pouring too...
U-turn on vertical drinking clampdown
A likely U-turn on the introduction of a "nonsensical" vertical drinking measure in Edinburgh could pave the way for its abandonment across Scotland....
Pubcos failing trade charity
The Licensed Trade Charity has slammed the financial support it receives from the big pubcos as laughable
Growing the grape
It's boom time for wine as drinkers are paying more than ever for a bottle. Nigel Huddleston picks out the trends to follow to keep growth going You...
City diary
JDW's cut-price law work JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin's unique mixture of determination and frugality has struck again. You'll remember he's...
BarTalk
Who would you rather have behind your bar, Jonny Wilkinson or Wayne Rooney? Scott Murray Bar Sport Cannock Staffordshire I'd have Jonny behind the...
Lowering the limit
Phil Dixon wonders whether it's time the legal drinking age was brought down to encourage tippling teenagers off the streets and into pubs After the...
THE GUV'NOR
John Ellis Licensee of the Crown Inn, in Oakengates, Telford, says that differential rates of duty for draught and packaged products could be the...
When enough is not enough
The most important point to be made about saturation zones, such as the one proposed in Brighton, is that they do not form a specific part of...
the man from auntie and his saintly partner
Ardent campaigner Robert Feal-Martinez recently had a bit of a rant at the trade bodies and suggested setting up his own national licensee...
New pubco to save the country pub
A new pub company has been set up with a view to keeping the country pub alive in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
Rooney's uncle fined for illegal Sky viewing
The uncle of Wayne Rooney has been fined for screening football using a domestic Sky card
Faking It
Last month industry watchdog the Portman Group announced that it would stop distributing its own proof-of-age cards.It cited falling demand as the...
Going by the book
Learning from the experiences of others is crucial when it comes to raising standards. Steve Hemsley discovers books that continue to inspire...