Spirits training: Pub case study
"We serve a small but quality range and try to focus on an offer that can be made well by an experienced bartender to a new recruit," says Ria...
Archives for May 17, 2009
Mark Kenyon: The lack of credit - and how to cope
Whatever the prognosis for the wider economy, the current climate and trading conditions for many companies in this sector remains something many may...
UK barstaff numbers tumble by 23 per cent
The number of barstaff employed in the UK has fallen by nearly a quarter in the last year as recession has taken a firm grip on the country. The...
Pubco bosses lash out over BEC report
Pubco bosses have lashed out at MPs over the damning report on pubco power by the Business and Enterprise Committee published last week. The report...
Fox & Hounds is Britain's top pub
The Fox and Hounds in Newmillerdam, West Yorkshire has been voted the top pub in the UK in a poll of over 200 senior industry personnel.
Community order for security firm boss
The ex-director of a Peterborough security firm has been given an 18-month community punishment order for supplying unlicensed security staff.
Spirits training: Why staff need knowledge on spirits serve
Cocktail culture having now had time to bed in, the popularity of long mixed drinks has reached corners of the on-trade one may never have thought...
Hamish Champ: Pubs and the Art of Customer Service*
I was having a chat in a pub with some mates last week about a subject very close to all our hearts, namely the varying levels of welcome we received...
Spirits training: Cask Marque turns it hand to spirits training
The obvious product you would associate with trade body Cask Marque is beer, so it's a surprise to find it set to launch a comprehensive staff...
'FSA looks into share dealing in pub firms'
The regulator is looking at trading in the shares of Punch Taverns and Enterprise Inns ahead of the publication of a controversial report into the...
New schooner for Newcastle Brown Ale
Licensees are being urged to take advantage of a new branded schooner for Newcastle Brown Ale. Scottish & Newcastle's joint venture brand...
New salt reduction targets announced
Many pub food staples - including crisps and snacks, sausages, burgers, chips, bread, pasta and rice - will be made with less salt by 2012.The Food...
Pub industry sheds 20% of jobs in a year
The pub and club industry lost 64,100 jobs over the last year — almost 20% of the workforce — as the economic troubles hit, according to a new...
Spirits training: Become a 'Rum Master'
One strand of the True Rum campaign launched last year to promote rum from the Caribbean is a barstaff training programme in use of the spirit....
Democracy at work?
So, what did you make of the Business & Enterprise Committee's report into the pub trade then? For example, did you agree with the man from Fair...