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J Mark Dodds 18/03/2010 08:40:28  |
All three parties want beer tie CC referral > All three parties want beer tie CC referral
Dear Morning Advertiser the pieman is all over your public forum like a set in dose of syphilis. Why do you allow it? |
| J Mark Dodds 17/03/2010 10:26:08 |
RE: All three parties want beer tie CC referral > RE: All three parties want beer tie CC referral
The sessions at parliament would have been inconcievable two years ago. http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdodds/4440617090/ Two years ago the tie couldn't even MENTIONED in parliament without someone telling you to shut up. Now the tie is central to the debate about the future of pubs. That is all down to the work of Fair Pint. Yesterday's questions and answers session was very well attended, very well organised and the most informative public session there has ever been on the state of pubs in Britain. Streets ahead. All you, the mis informer, or 'the pieman', can come up with is yet another tedious snipe. Why don't you get off your keyboard and DO something? Anything. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 12:03:04 |
RE: Punch Taverns is 'one to watch' > RE: Punch Taverns is 'one to watch'
YOU are an idiot incapable of making comments that contribute anything to these threads without sniping and carping. You're doing a great job for the BBPA. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 11:56:36 |
RE: Enterprise Inns to auction off 11 NE pubs > RE: Enterprise Inns to auction off 11 NE pubs
Three years ago they will have been down at between £300K and £700K. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 11:55:07 |
RE: TV licensee aims to reduce pub tenants' debts > RE: TV licensee aims to reduce pub tenants' debts
Jay. 'Simon' is a damaged nuisance poster with Stockholm Syndrome that's made 'him' (sometimes he posts as a 'she') pro pubco activist / busy body not called 'Simon' who misinterprets everything deliberately from a bitter and blinkered, ill informed point of view. He believes everyone in the trade who works for others as well as their own benefit is an underhand duplicitous spiv. Note his sniping at all and sundry and also note how many other 'lone star' posters who take the same sort of stance using the same sort of language. 'He' is at least three other regular presences here and on the Publican. Keep up the sterling diversionary 'work''Simon'. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 09:13:23 |
BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction > BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction
BBPA is a rubbish organisation that does not represent lessees but pretends to, an organisation that's 'backing the pub' (into a corner persumably) that incorporates a sub set of pointlessness called 'Beautiful Beer' which doesn't really even exist since they pulled the plug on the salary of its only employee, blows off all manner of hot air about all things to do with the pub industry, generally getting it subtly wrong. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 09:11:36 |
BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction > BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction
Volumes of hot air are huffed and puffed about GMB for all sorts of different cultural reasons. All the reasons are just huff and puff though - mostly from the flat earth viewpoint: "there be dragons out there". |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 08:45:26 |
TV licensee aims to reduce pub tenants' debts > RE: TV licensee aims to reduce pub tenants' debts
Very INNteresting |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 07:58:16 |
BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction > BBPA threatens GMB with legal injuction
Good grief: “ultimately tied tenants do risk losing their business and their homes and could face insolvency when potentially disproportionate legal costs would be sought from them” Skimming the article I read this and really thought that finally Brigid has had an epiphany and decided to tell it like it is about the tie. Then realised she's talking about the consequences of GMB's activity rather than the consequences of signing a tied lease along the 'Caveat Emptor' route. Brigid just misses the point that tenants are gathering together around GMB because they feel protected - from exactly the scenario they face with their pubco, as so eloquently described by Brigid. |
| J Mark Dodds 16/03/2010 01:45:08 |
Realistic & Acceptable Rent Level for a New Enterprise Lease > Realistic & Acceptable Rent Level for a New Enterprise Lease
Get in touch with several brewers and talk to them about the discount they would give you for selling direct on 200 barrels and increasing according to your vision for improving the business. Compare your results with what Enterprise offer. Although they will be doing incentives on sales they never would have given a second's thought to until recently. If they are offering attractive discounts - push for them at the level of the free of tie prices get them set in stone never to be taken away. Assess your comfortable rent and negotiate HARD to get it at 30% less than that. Survey the building in total detail - ANYTHING you're not happy about tell them it's their job to get it sorted to your satisfaction. If they say any such work will be done after you sign simply do not believe them. Tied pubs tend not to be repaired or maintained as they ought. It's a long story... You must pay close attention to mechanical and electrical services and all things that work hard and are costly to replace. Unless the building has had a very recent complete refurb including all new services installed to code and certificated expect them all to fail within a couple of years. Same goes for roofs and almost everything else. Oh and for your own peace of mind don't take on a tied lease. Take your time, work on your business plan to the nth detail and buy a freehold. |