Archives for April 16, 2012

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Embrace a summer of sales opportunities at your pub

By Colm O'Dwyer

I’ll never forget an incident 10 years ago in our local pub when my family were made to feel bad simply because we ordered food and soft drinks and we had kids with us. Now, under new management, the pub has been completely transformed.

Summer screen test at the Tharp Arms

By Mark Daniels

You will be getting a bigger television in time for Euro 2012, won’t you?” The short answer to that question was “no”. Over the years I’ve acquiesced left, right and centre to customer requests, head buried deep in the belief that if I provide it, they...

Last orders at the ‘necessary’ saloon

By Jonathan Smith

Get your licence out.  Have a read, look at the conditions. Are there any you would rather remove? Perhaps those niggling ones that no-one really knows how they came to be there or more onerous conditions — for example, last entry times or requirements...