Once again the Government has demonstrated its total contempt and lack of understanding of pubs with its decision to move London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire into tier three.
A new company led by hospitality entrepreneur and ex-Dragon’s Den investor Sarah Willingham, has unveiled plans to float on AIM after agreeing a deal to acquire the London Cocktail Club’s bar portfolio.
Hospitality sector leaders are once again telling the Government that the industry must not be blamed for coronavirus outbreaks, after it was announced pubs will be forced to shut in more areas of England.
New research has claimed that the majority of the British public sympathise with hospitality business operators over the way they’ve been treated during the Covid-19 crisis.
An analysis of coronavirus infection rates given to the Dutch Government and then leaked to the press has claimed opening hospitality venues will decrease and not increase coronavirus infection rates.
The independent owner and operator of 27 pubs across southern England and the West Midlands, the Oakman Group, is seeking £4.5m to accelerate plans to double its estate by 2026.
Many of the capital's hospitality businesses would be forced to permanently close should the city be placed into the toughest tier of coronavirus measures, a trade association has claimed.
A British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) survey suggests that more than half of operators expect to close pubs that re-opened after England’s second national lockdown if trade doesn’t improve in the coming weeks.
Pub operator Marston’s has revealed that it made a total loss of £397.1m during the year to 3 October 2020 following the closure of its near 1,400 strong pub estate for 15 weeks.
Broadcaster BT Sport and Amazon Prime Video will once again team up to make more than 20 Premier League fixtures available to pub operators in December.
In addition to Incipio Group and Whitbread announcing new hires, updates on the £1,000 Christmas Support Payment for wet-led pubs, hospitality job losses and a new Parliamentary group to support late-night sector were issued.
The decision to implement a curfew on pubs, restaurants and the rest of the hospitality sector was a “policy decision” that had “no hard evidence” behind it preventing the spread of coronavirus, the Government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance...
Top pub operator Tom Kerridge followed on from his recent TV series with a live hour long broadcast to address some of the issues the trade was facing.
A number of operators have told The Morning Advertiser they are relying on customers to be honest about a booking being from one household when dining inside at venues.
With food the focus under the new government restrictions for pubs, the Lock In podcast team talk about how you can create a food offer during the crisis, what makes good, and bad, pub food, the practicalities of a food offer and debate what substantial...
In addition to news of the Ladhar Group’s deal for Sir John Fitzgerald, Leisure PR boss Maureen Heffernan unveiled the Richmond Club and a Hampshire-based pub couple have acquired three pub freeholds.
Police have been accused of “overzealous” enforcement of tier two restrictions in pubs, with landlords reporting officers arguing over ’substantial meal’ regulations and throwing out customers after they finished eating.
Despite sport fans being able to return to stadiums in tiers one and two – and consume alcohol there – from 2 December, traditional matchday pubs haven’t experienced anything like their usual boost.
The Morning Advertiser’s social media followers shared their experiences of trading under various levels of the Government’s more stringent Covid alert system since 2 December.
The Morning Advertiser asked operators under the toughest band of England's coronavirus measures about their business hopes, ahead of a review of areas' tier statuses on 16 December.
Industry trade body UKHospitality (UKH) has warned that the sector faces a ‘new year bloodbath of hospitality business failures’ unless rent moratoria are extended.
There has recently been much discussion - some serious and some tongue in cheek - about the merits of eating a scotch egg as a midday or main evening table meal, and if one Scotch egg isn’t enough to constitute it being the main meal would two suffice?...
The old proverb that "necessity is the mother of invention" has been ringing in pub operators’ ears throughout the Covid-19 pandemic even if their tills haven’t quite been ringing at the same frequency.
The nearly £2bn worth of rate relief supermarkets are paying back should be handed to the hospitality and tourism sector, in a bid to help the trade survive the coronavirus pandemic, a trade body has said.
Celebrity chef and pub operator Tom Kerridge is set to follow up the success of his recent BBC series with a live Q&A for the pub sector with a panel of experts.
The average Welsh pub will receive four times as much grant funding as Scottish sites and more than three times that of the average English pub during the festive period, new research has found.
