RE: Licensees plan protest at Enterprise and Punch HQs

Si Smith, how long have you been dealing with Enterprise? You are surely a minority, Or could you be related to Ted Tuppen himself. Get into the real world and start to read what is actually going on out there. Because one day it's gonna be you, and lets hope all the licensees on the march have forgotten your comments. We need to support one another and stop thinking sefishly ( Si Smith)

Licensees plan protest at Enterprise and Punch HQs

That is one WILD post there Si Smith. Very interesting.

Where is your pub? What kind of operation is it? How much did you invest in it? How long have you been in the trade? and what are you doing that's so different from all the other people I know from tewnty five years in the licensed trade, many of them award winning business people, none of whom has a good word to say about the pubcos, their pricing, levels of service or value to sustainability.

What do you got than no one else seems to have that makes you get all that attention and support from Enterprise?

Licensees plan protest at Enterprise and Punch HQs

Here's an example of the pubco non-existent partnership?

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Jan%202009%2013%3A44%3A07%3A470

High rents + high beer prices + no pubco help = pub closing!

The first thing the pubco will do now is to lure a new romantic tennant in,
charging them an 'ingoing amount of money' probably around

Licensees plan protest at Enterprise and Punch HQs

Monday 26th don't forget everyone tea and biscuits awaits.

Licensees plan protest at Enterprise and Punch HQs

Si, you must be one of the fortunate few that Enterprise have spent some of their 9 million fund which they say is available to reinvest in their pubs. They didn't spend it on mine. Once we had signed on the dotted line, no lease repair works, which were huge and left me at a distinct trading disadvantage, not to mention that I was consequently paying an unfair rent as the property was not in a "tenantable" state... Pubcos have become estate agents, pure and simple. They are targeted to turn pubs round to anyone with a cheque book and reasonable credit rating... they know that pub business will fail because it just cannot work on the figures attainable. They do not care about people's lives - to some extent it must be caveat emptor, I understand that. But to put people into failing pubs, that fail again and again and will never work on the profit margins available because of the beer tie is just pure malpractice (at its best) and daylight robbery (at it's worst). Myself and my husband also had a good relationship with our BDM but that didn't change the fact that everything (more or less) went from the till drawer into the bank and into theirs. That is an impossible situation in this time of global crisis and could result in the UK losing so many more of it's valuable institutions - the pubs.
Enjoy your success. Long may it last. But when you have lost everything you have worked for, put your distressed sobbing staff out of work, said goodbye to your customers and friends, had a nervous breakdown, moved three times in 2 months all over the UK just to stay under a roof with your two young children, I suggest you revisit this forum and give us the opportunity to hear your point of view then.
Good luck.