Pub food sales outstrip drink in January
Food sales outstripped drink in pubs during January, showing a 2.8% rise versus a 1.2% fall, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
Archives for February 12, 2015
New brand for Hoxton Cidersmiths
Hoxton Cidersmiths, set up by friends who describe themselves as a “pair of cider purveyors,” is to launch a third new brand this month.
Allergen laws: Food businesses concern over staff misinformation
Operators are fearful of members of staff passing on the wrong allergen information to customers and keeping on top of daily allergen information to communicate to diners in food and beverage outlets.
Bacardi takes rum into the shot sector
Following its first redesign in a decade, Bacardi is taking aim at the growing shot market with a new spiced brand, set for launch this April, The Publican's Morning Advertiser can reveal.
WKD shoots at the shot market for the first time
WKD is entering the fast growing shot market for the first time with the launch of a 15% ABV sub-brand, WKD 1.
Pub people will decide the General Election outcome
In 34 days – on Wednesday 18 March – George Osborne will stand at the despatch box and deliver this government’s final Budget. But can publicans influence the manifestos for the General Election?
City slickers key to country pub trade
London and south-east professionals are buying rural public houses to procure a better lifestyle with an income, says Richard Wood pub and restaurant specialist at Christie + Co’s Exeter office
Progressive beer duty 'forcing family brewers out of business'
Stuart Bateman, managing director of Batemans, has warned that the impact of progressive beer duty is forcing the family brewers to look at other revenue streams.
Pubcos denied right to elect use of PIRRS
The Pub Governing Body (PGB) that oversees PIRRS — the rent resolution service for pub tenants — rejected a request from pubcos to allow them to automatically elect to use the scheme for fear it would undermine its credibility.