JW Lees ready to expand in 2022
Historic brewer and pub operator JW Lees has hunkered down during the pandemic to concentrate on survival first and foremost but that looks certain to change in the new year.
Archives for December 6, 2021
Is Christmas slipping away?
The drip drip drip of paranoia and panic are starting to do damage and desperate operators are beginning to fear Christmas slipping through their fingers.
Initiative to provide operators access to qualified advice launched
A scheme to provide pub operators with accredited and qualified advisors to help with pubco negotiations has been launched by the British Institute of Innkeeping.
Two fifths of firms have increased prices due to staff shortage
Some 41% of small business owners in the hospitality sector have already pushed prices up as a result of the ongoing recruitment crisis and a further 17% expect to do so in the next three months, a report has found.
Operator's bid to become the ‘most festive-spirited pub company’
The Inn Collection Group has offered free Christmas lunches for isolated older people and shelter for those affected by Storm Arwen across its pubs in a bid to become the UK’s ‘most festive-spirited pub company’.
Award winning craft brewery officially opens Cornish pub
Cornish craft brewery, Harbour Brewery, officially reopened the St Tudy Inn on Saturday 4 December in preparation to welcome customers for Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Turn January into a great month at your pub
The traditional image of empty pubs in January isn’t something an operator has to endure while customers ‘punish’ themselves for over indulgence in the previous month. The month of January has become an opportunity in waiting for a canny licensee to profit.
'Worlds Biggest Pub Quiz' is set to return next year
PubAid has partnered with homeless charity Shelter and online quiz platform Kwizzbit ahead of the return of its ‘World’s Biggest Pub Quiz’ to pubs in March 2022.