Archives for May 21, 2014

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Young’s to rebrand tenanted estate as Ram Pub Company

By John Harrington

Young’s has reported a 17% rise in adjusted pre-tax profit to £27.2m in the year to 31 March, with like-for-like sales in its managed arm up 6.7%, as it announced plans to rebrand its tenanted arm as the Ram Pub Company by the end of the summer.

Business Support

Sweet Success

By Sheila McWattie

Sheila McWattie looks at seven ideas for driving sales of cakes and pastries in your pub

The Big Interview: Catherine Salway, Redemption Bar

By Phil Mellows

Sipping tentatively at a freshly-squeezed organic beetroot juice, Phil Mellows meets dry bar entrepreneur Catherine Salway and finds out what the licensed trade could possibly learn from a pub with no beer.

Licensee wins planning appeal for roof garden

By Ellie Bothwell

A north London licensee has won an appeal to create a roof garden on her pub, after battling for a year to overturn the council’s refusal to grant planning permission.

Business Booster

Money Makers

By Sheila McWattie

Event and promotional ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub

Menu ideas

From scratch and batch: Burgers

By PMA food team

PubFood's focus on ideas for pub favourites -whether you are making them from scratch or buying in. Below we look ideas for burgers.

Mitchells & Butlers sees sales hike in first half of year

By John Harrington

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has this morning reported a 1.1% increase in like-for-like sales for the 28 weeks to 12 April 2014 and said that its performance had been underpinned by a turnaround in volume performance.