A Toby Carvery pub has been awarded a one-star food-hygiene rating after food hygiene inspectors discovered an ‘infestation of flies’ and a build-up of sludge in its kitchen.
Plans for this year’s Top 50 Gastropubs are well under way, but now is your chance to be aligned with the greatest food pubs in the UK by entering these awards.
Theresa May’s proposals for a two-year transition period after Britain leaves the EU, as well as other assurances, have been welcomed by leaders in the on-trade.
No one likes to think it could happen but publicans are vulnerable to having cash and stock stolen from right under their noses by employees. Here, a top legal expert offers advice on how to stop it.
From being the oldest pub in the village, to having a ghost, or having royalty over for tea, every pub has a story – some of which they appear to share with many others.
Emma Sherwood-Smith, Heineken’s Cider Brand Director, has her sights set on a big future for fruit ciders, especially those with unique flavour profiles such as Old Mout’s variants.
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon (JDW) saw like-for-like volume sales rise by 17% on Tax Equality Day, a day when the pubco dropped its prices by 7.5% to highlight the benefit of a VAT reduction in the trade.
Drinking in moderation is good for people and moderate drinking causes no harm, the new chair of consumer group Drinkers' Voice has claimed in an interview with The Morning Advertiser.
Staff at a Star Pubs & Bars site in Greater Manchester were forced to call the police when a fight broke out between 40 people who “refused to leave the pub”.
Customers in a new Stonegate pub in Kent, which had £400,000 spent on its refurbishment, were evacuated when it was believed a fire had broken out – just weeks after opening.
Shepherd Neame’s focus on revitalising its managed pub estate through investment and acquisition has provided great profits for the Kent-based operator, but that does not signal the demise of the independents.
How sustainable is cut-price cask beer, and what is the wider effect on the industry? The Morning Advertiser takes a look at the role of price in securing cask’s future
Paul Crossman, licensee of the Swan, on Bishopthorpe Road, York, said that it took a year of negotiation before the deal for the free-of-tie deal was finalised.
Last week, the Campaign for Real Ale released its 45th edition of the Good Beer Guide. The guide contains 4,500 of the “best real ale pubs in the UK” and information on every real ale brewery currently operating and its key beers.
Hygiene equipment management can impact a pub’s reputation and bottom line, but there are practices operators can put in place to keep it safe, according to compliance company Klipspringer.
Focusing on the dispense method used in brewing beer “divides drinkers instead of uniting them” according to the head of operations for one of the UK’s leading craft breweries.
A Lincolnshire pub has defended its drop in its food hygiene rating from a five to a one and the licensee is confident it will be back to a five by the end of the September.
