Mark Daniels: My love/hate relationship with Sky
Over the past two weeks I have been asked by various people in the trade what, if I'm so clever, magic formula would I come up with that would make...
Archives for July 28, 2010
Tenant to sue pubco for £230k
A Greene King tenant is suing the company for more than £230,000 after attempts to lease the pub or buy the freehold failed. Meadowden Holdings...
Licence hikes and levy could cost £15.5m
The proposed late night levy could cost the industry up to £9m per year — while the higher licence fees would add a further £6.5m annually....
Mulholland calls for meeting with minister to discuss government pub proposals
Greg Mulholland, chairman of the All Party Save The Pub Group, has requested a meeting with a Home Office minister to press the case for pubs in the...
ALMR: Pubs 'footing the bill' for BSkyB's growth ambitions
UK pubs and bars are "footing the bill" for Sky TV's ambitions to build itself into a larger, more profitable business, according to a leading pub...
Merchant Inns: only half of sites profitable
A report into the collapse of Merchant Inns, the mid-market pubs-and-inns business, shows that only half of its six venues were profitable at site...
DCMS 'free' to talk up thriving pubs
The transfer of responsibility for licensing to the Home Office should free up the DCMS to positively promote pubs, trade leaders argue.
3D golf destined for Sky
Sky will be showing golf's 2010 Ryder Cup live in 3D this year, and has just released the list of 3D football fixtures for this season. Selected...
Harvard beckons for Fuller's' Simon Emeny
Simon Emeny, group managing director-designate at Fuller, Smith & Turner, said he hopes to return from a two-month-long sabbatical at the Harvard...
Sky and ALMR at odds over price hikes
The long-running dispute between Sky and the ALMR rumbles on — the two are at odds on the actual size of this year's price hike.
Back bar focus: Behind every great barperson...
Jelly Beans, Liquorice Allsorts, cashew nuts, Bombay mix and pistachios might not be regular features on the back-bar. But at the Jolly Cricketers...
The nouvelle hell of the gastropub
Budvar's Tony Jennings hails the rise and rise of the gastropub — but wishes the concept could be renamed.
Chef school to run again
Bay Restaurant Group plans to run another chef school following the success of its inaugural course. Chefs from the company's newly launched Bay...
Save Pub Group calls for Home Office meeting
Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has called for a meeting with the Home Office over the proposed changes on licensing. The Lib Dem MP has...
Boat Inn: charting a course for success
Andrew Woodward, owner of the Boat Inn, Towcester, tells Sonya Hook how he and his family have kept the family pub afloat for more than 130 years.
Wine Focus: Beating the great wine buff bluff...
There's a Michael McIntyre sketch that sums up perfectly the confusion and terror caused when ordering wine. "When the waiter comes and says would...
Pub food: Open to a new approach
"We thought we'd try to bring some of the London dining experience to Steyning," says George White, co-owner of Whites Bar & Kitchen at the White...