Fire has forced a former Great British Pub Awards (GBPA) finalist to close until further notice less than three weeks after resuming trade following enforced coronavirus closure.
When the chips were down and supplies were running low, pubs stepped up to ensure their communities were kept fed and watered, and now The Morning Advertiser (MA) is looking to recognise that.
Co-founded by cricketers Harry Gurney and current England international Stuart Broad, the Midlands-based Cat & Wickets Pub Company has recorded stronger than expected takings straight off the bat after reopening on 4 July.
The Government’s announcement that it will be launching a review into alcohol duty has been met with optimism from trade bodies alongside calls for more help for the beer and pub sectors to bounce back from the coronavirus crisis.
Pubs across the country have been cooperating with the NHS Test and Trace scheme with a number closing their doors for a few days following linked Covid-19 cases.
Officers from Merseyside Police are investigating an incident which saw the letters ‘WLM’ daubed on the walls of a pub owned by a black publican in Liverpool’s Old Swan neighbourhood.
Staff welfare has been vital as the pub sector weathered the corona crisis storm, and now The Morning Advertiser (MA) is looking to recognise those operators that did a fantastic job looking after their staff.
Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP) has sought to reassure publicans it has sent out high-quality products despite changing the labels on some soft drinks deliveries to extend their best before date.
A Norfolk pub operator plans to eschew further taxpayer-funded Government support for his site after registering year-on-year growth under a diversified business model since lockdown.
Though 95% of Brits consider it rude not to let a pub, bar or restaurant know they won’t be making a booking, operators have nonetheless faced a wave of ‘no-shows’ since trading resumed on 4 July.
Urban-based operators voiced their concerns for city centre businesses amid reopening and looking ahead due to rules on public transport and customers wanting to stay local.
Some 58% of operators are planning to offer customers 50% off (up to £10 per person) as part of the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme next month (August).
Learning from different regulations set by local governments in countries across Europe has been helpful for one multiple operator when reopening its sites in the UK.
Insolvency specialists are seeking a buyer for Rileys Sports Bars after the pool and snooker hall chain fell into administration amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Publicans have been urged to ensure they have made arrangements to destroy their spoilt beer before the deadline to do this free of charge runs out at the end of the month.
Pub groups reported collective like-for-like sales down almost 40% on the same week last year for their reopening week, according to data from Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
The Morning Advertiser's (MA) editor Ed Bedington catches up with The Alchemist’s Simon Potts to discuss what’s grabbed his attention from the week’s headlines.
Georgina Young will oversee brewing and operations at both St Austell Brewery and Bath Ales as the Cornish brewer and pub operator’s new brewing director.
Despite celebrating his tenth year at the Castle Inn in Skipton, North Yorkshire, during lockdown, operator Calvin Dow feels like a new-starter running his reopened pub under the Government’s ‘Covid-secure’ guidance.
The re-opening of pubs, bars and restaurants has been long awaited, with enforced closures of 15 or more weeks being something that is truly unprecedented for the industry.
The last few months have provided unprecedented challenges to the on-trade. The face of the industry is changing, as is consumer behaviour. On the first day since lifting lockdown restrictions in England, the number of people visiting bars, pubs and restaurants...
A publican in Leicester has shared his experiences of a continued shutdown after the city was placed into a ‘local lockdown’ at the start of the month, owing to high numbers of Covid-19 cases.
Beavertown founder Logan Plant reflects on how his Heineken-backed north London brewery has forged new relationships with drinkers after losing almost 90% of its business during lockdown.
Coca-Cola has created a special Community Pub Fund of £165,000 to be shared between this year’s 15 Great British Pub Awards (GBPA) Pub Heroes winners as a thank you for supporting communities during the coronavirus pandemic and to help give their businesses...
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has called upon the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to ‘step up to the plate’ and investigate the creation of the Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company.
Leading chefs from the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list will reveal how their pubs are trading under social distancing rules and give tips and advice to help others do the same.
The Morning Advertiser talks to Simon King, sales director at Booker and Makro to understand what trends the wholesaler has been seeing during lockdown and how this will help operators moving forward.
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has responded to claims from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society for Independent Brewers (SIBA) that the pub group’s marketing materials for its price cut could “potentially mislead customers”.
Pub sector stakeholders have said the last thing the trade needs is further restriction in response to calls for the Government to make banning smoking a necessary condition for pub pavement licences.
