Pub Food Forum: What's driving food in pubs?
THE PANEL members for our Pub Food Forum all brought different perspectives to a discussion of the market in the year which saw the rest of the UK...
Archives for December 13, 2007
Legal advice: The pub property year review
IN THIS season of good cheer, let us pause for a moment and look back at some of the property issues we have covered for you in The Publican during...
Salisbury launches new pub concept
Paul Salisbury has launched a new concept in Solihull called The Farm
Criterion chases Bowes' ex-wife
Ida Bowes owes £60,000 to Criterion Asset Management under a privity of contract deal she signed with her ex-husband. She talks to John Harrington...
TV show pair open Charles Wells pub
Two contestants from Raymond Blanc's BBC2 programme The Restaurant have taken on a Charles Wells lease. Mother and son team Nicola and Tom Nickerson...
Healthy debate
Can pubs capitalise effectively on the rise of the health-conscious consumer? Noli Dinkovski reports from a special MA forum Living well and...
BarTalk
How was trade in 2007? Jessica Luke Brewery Tap Peterborough Cambridgeshire Trade pretty much matched 2006 so it hasn't been too bad - I think we got...
Bish: off-trade's in denial about its role
Big supermarkets should review their alcohol advertising and marketing techniques to encourage more responsible retailing. That is the view of...
Chris Maclean: Inspirational infringements
We ought to learn from our history. We haven't heeded any of it and it is a shame. Great names. Great events. Great achievements. They gather dust...
Diageo ups price of Guinness by 3%
The wholesale price of Draught Guinness is to increase by 3% from 1 February 2008. The relatively modest increase will come as a relief to many...
Gov't set to target below-cost booze
Health minister Ben Brad-shaw says the Government is "prepared to change the law" regarding below-cost selling of alcohol. It is the clearest sign...
The alternative annual rewind
A bar full of beds, toilet shenanigans and a drop of Blond Bitch - cheers to another crazy year for pubs January Thefts of beer glasses and ashtrays...
Drink-driving limit won't kill rural pubs
"Parliamentary privilege" gives rights to MPs that lesser mortals such as journalists can never enjoy. Last week the Labour MP John Grogan described...
Licensing@aol.com
Breach of licence QThere is a shop in this village which had an off-licence under the old law. They have now taken to putting out tables and chairs...
Pivotal point in the top flight
Arsenal's hopes of going the whole league season unbeaten were proved to be premature last weekend - and their grip on the top spot is looking...
'Bowes living in £1.8m mansion'
Ida Bowes says her ex-husband and discredited pubco boss Alan is living in a £1.8m mansion in Edinburgh
Where are they coming from?
There has been much talk about "traceability" recently. This means being able to tell where a bottle of alcohol has come from. Obviously, in terms...
Be smart and get planning
That appalling summer. The horrendous floods. Plummeting beer sales - the lowest since the Great Depression. Rock-bottom off-trade prices (22p a can...
'Drinking age should be raised to 21'
The legal age for drinking should be raised from 18 to 21, according to a new survey. The BBC Newsnight survey, which quizzed 1015 people earlier...
Legal advice: Getting rid of Japanese knotweed
Japanese knotweed is a problem that is growing across the UK - it's a highly invasive weed which was introduced to the UK in the 19th century as an...
Special Occasions: Music to licensees' ears
IT'S THE soundtrack to our lives - and the soundtrack to pub profits. Get the music offer right in your pub, theme some special occasions around it,...
All ale 'n' hearty at brewers' xmas bash
Thankfully no undercover policemen were lurking in the excellent Hand & Flower pub near Olympia, west London, last Thursday - they'd have had a...
MyNewPub
Sun Inn Feering, Essex Andrew Howard has become Shepherd Neame's youngest licensee, taking over the helm at the Sun Inn, in Essex, at the age of 20....
Ban on cheap supermarket deals?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown may intervene to stop cheap supermarket deals on alcohol.The issue has apparently hit home with Mr Brown, after Labour MP...
Pressure mounts to cut drink-drive limits
Pressure is continuing to mount for a cut in drink-driving limits - threatening rural pubs. With the festive season in full swing, doctors in...
Born again beer drinker
Mamma mia! After some health advice, Phil Dixon is surprised to find himself enjoying an alcohol-free beer... Apart from the odd Swedish tribute...
Taking a creative approach
Rosie Davenport reviews what's been hot and what to look out for in 2008 It's with a sense of collective trepidation that the trade waves goodbye to...
The Agents
John William Managing director Sidney Phillips Despite the well-documented losses by US banks and other lending institutions in the sub-prime...
The Elite approach
Since arriving from France, Martial Chaussy has built up the highly- successful Elite Pubs company with three food-led outlets in the south of...
BBPA opposes ADZ discounts
Best Bar None-accredited pubs in alcohol disorder zones (ADZs) should not be given a discount, a trade group has argued. The British Beer & Pub...
City diary
by The PMA Team Ramsay's carvery nightmare Multiple pub operator Gordon Ramsay was decidedly sniffy about the all-week carvery at the Priory, in...
Blackpool pubs hit in pilot crackdown
Blackpool police say two £80 fixed-penalty notices were issued to bar staff for serving drunks in a pilot crackdown and one outlet was closed for...
LETTERs
Taking issue with prohibitionists Lord Krebs, of the Nuffield Council, has called for a probe into the "effect of extended opening hours on levels of...