The Inspiration for Pub Success Since 1794
Simon Townsend is in a good mood. We’re in the Ebury in Pimlico, one of the gems in the Enterprise Inns estate, now back in the hands of gastropub entrepreneur Tom Etridge — and it’s a glittering example of just what pubs can be.
Metal theft, mostly in the form of kegs, costs our industry £50m a year, so I wasn’t surprised to read in the Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) that the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) welcomes the Government’s upcoming crackdown on metal theft.
Industry veteran Iain Loe will be hanging up his pub guides and statistical handbooks to retire from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) after 23 years.
You would think that the politicians would favour efforts by pubs to boost custom in order to help them through difficult trading times. But even these best intentions can fall foul of what some people might see as town-hall bureaucracy.
JD Wetherspoon (JDW), the managed pub operator, has won a settlement in relation to fraudulent property transactions involving the company’s former property agent Van de Berg.
More pubs have been urged to enter a football team for the Carlsberg Pub Cup which has already attracted the signature of nearly 4,000 pubs throughout the UK.