Having a great offer when it comes to cocktails is a proven way of increasing trade, but making sure you convey what you have to customers is the crucial aspect in building sales. Nicholas Robinson reports.
The owners of an Essex pub have been fined more than £42,000 and stopped from selling food after rats were found nesting under the fridge in its kitchen.
All eyes will be on the Women's England football team as they face Spain in the next round of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. Catch this, as well as the final day of the Open Championship and pre-season football, this weekend.
Disasters at the UK’s favourite TV soap pubs would costs hundreds of thousands of pounds if the incidents happened in real life, according to security experts.
Elite chefs met for the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs regional dinner and enjoyed a taste sensation from three of the very best in their field. Nicholas Robinson reports.
The stigma around frozen food is melting and operators should look at the segment to cut their costs and still deliver a great quality meal. Nikkie Sutton reports.
A far more subtle and sophisticated spirit than it’s often given credit for, there are many other ways to enjoy Tequila than slamming it back with salt and a wedge of lime. Emma Eversham reports.
Leading trade bodies gave further evidence to the Low Pay Commission (LPC) on Wednesday after previous concerns that any move to drastically increase wage rates could “put pub sector jobs at risk”.
It is now a year since the pubs code was introduced but neither the trade, nor consultants and legal advisers negotiating deals between breweries and pubs, or pressure groups, seem to be celebrating.
Hawthorn Leisure, the Avenue Capital-backed pub operator, saw group EBITDA increase 10.1% to £9m in the year to 25 December 2016, its third year of “significant growth” since its creation in May 2014.
More than half of all pubgoers champion their local pub as the place for food and drink, with one in five visiting between once and three times a week, a study has found.
Drinkers will be able to identify beers produced by independent breweries at this year’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), thanks to a partnership between the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and the festival’s organisers.
East End pubs around the Boleyn Ground in Upton Park, lived and died by their claret and blue credentials, so it’s little wonder a year after West Ham upped sticks and moved to Stratford that some have already put the shutters up.
If pubs get behind niche sports such as handball, wrestling, netball and NBA basketball, it can “really add to their business”, according to leading managers in the trade.
Ready-made soft-boiled eggs are now available to pubs from a bulk ingredients supplier, which introduced them to help chefs cook quickly on a large scale.
Stonegate Pub Company brand Walkabout has announced its new menu, which taps into the company’s Australian heritage and is due to hit sites later this month (25 July).
A local has set up a crowdfunding page on behalf of licencees to raise enough money to buy their pub to save it from being closed and prevent their family “from being turned out”.
London Beer City, an 11-day celebration of the best producers of beer and food across the capital and the UK, is set to return for a fourth year next month (August).
An MP who has done much to change the political fortunes of beer for the better has been named Beer Drinker of the Year by the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group (APPBG).
Allergen awareness in pubs has improved since the introduction of the Food Information to Consumers Regulations (FIC) in 2014, according to new research from the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
A free-to-join virtual network where businesses can discuss key hospitality and tourism themes has been launched by management advice group People 1st.
Be At One’s Steve Locke and Andrew Stones reveal how speedy yet great cocktails have been the basis for a business that is still keeping the party going.