Ensuring sales teams have a sound understanding of cask beer can help pub licensees improve their draught offer, according to Cask Marque director Paul Nunny.
From being a teenager to the age of 51, Sacha Lord has always been a proud Manc and his love for the music scene in the late ’80s/early ’90s remains his passion to this day.
Top toilets are vital for any pub operation, but are we always getting it right. The Lock In team go beyond the u-bend to find out how you can up your loo offer!
By Lorraine Copes, CEO of Be Inclusive Hospitality
Our industry has all the essential ingredients to stand as the beacon of inclusivity and opportunity – becoming the industry of choice where individuals from diverse backgrounds can develop and flourish in their careers.
Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) has announced it is retiring the four remaining Union Sets at Marston’s Brewery in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire because using them as fermentation vessels is no longer viable, according to the company.
The burden of debt repayments alongside a plethora of ongoing challenges were cited as the reasons behind Leeds-based business North Brewing filing a notice of intention to appoint administrators, one of the co-founders told The Morning Advertiser.
Interest rate rises, inflationary pressures and a continuously changing consumer environment are poised to make 2024 an “interesting” year for pubs and lenders.
Night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester Sacha Lord is “very hopeful” the hospitality sector will get support after the general election, which he predicts will take place on 14 November.
A complaint in which a member of the public believed Asahi Super Dry beer communicated itself as a non-alcoholic drink has been thrown out by The Portman Group’s Independent Complaint Panel.
C&C Group, which owns Matthew Clark, Bibendum Wine and brands Tennent’s, Magners and Bulmers Ireland said it expects full-year operating profit for its 2024 financial year (FY24) to be in line with current market expectations.
BrewDog CEO and co-founder James Watt has blasted “completely false clickbait headlines” over the company’s decision to not retain the real living wage (RLW) status for bar staff.
While I do not profess to be any kind of expert on the behaviour of rodents, I have heard anecdotally that the various lockdowns which we have all experienced may have had a knock-on effect on the rodent population as well.
North Brewing Co has reportedly filed a notice of intention (NOI) to appoint administrators in a bid to seek “additional investment” into the business.
The total number of pubs in the UK will “continue to decline” as more than a third of freehold sites sold in 2023 no longer operate as pubs, according to the Fleurets Survey of Pub Prices January 2024.
The Government “must act to secure the future of pubs” as the average cost of a pint of draught lager in the on-trade soars by more than 10% year-on-year (YOY).
The average sale price for a freehold pub was almost £150,00 lower in 2023 than the previous year, the Fleurets Survey of Pub Prices January 2024 has revealed.
UKHospitality (UKH) Cymru is urging the Welsh government to raise its business rates relief from 40% to 75% using allocated funds from the UK Government.
What goes up must come down is the saying, and the festive highs in the on-trade are painfully followed by January lows – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
With the late-night sector undergoing some serious challenges, one company is still aiming for success and predicting great opportunities in the market.
Staffing has always been a challenge in the pub sector but since the perfect storm of Brexit, Covid, minimum and national living wage increases, the cost-of-living crisis, immigration changes – combined with the poor reputation of a career in the industry...
The Warwickshire-based bar and restaurant group behind venues including pubs the Royal Pug, the Fat Pug and the Black Pug in Warwick, and the Lazy Pug in Shipston is continuing to expand with plans for a new Pug venue.
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has demanded Government investment in pubs in the upcoming Budget as more than six out of 10 pubs reported revenues losses or flat trade in 2023.
