When you have advised and represented publicans for four decades, you think you have experienced difficult times: recessions, floods, foot and mouth, Chernobyl fallout, draymen’s strikes... but a worldwide pandemic that closes all UK pubs is, sadly, just...
The owner and operator of the Bowgie Inn in Crantock, Cornwall, has swapped pulling pints for ploughing during the Covid-19 shutdown in a bid to boost local agriculture.
Phil Cutter discusses the impact of Government support during the Covid-19 shutdown on his pub as well as the steps he’s taking to safeguard his staff and business.
Piers Baker, of the Sun Inn, Dedham, on the Essex-Suffolk border, explains experience in the pub game is the key to understanding the way business really works.
The boss of a leading family brewer has set out a passionate response to the crisis engulfing his sector and announced a set of guiding principles for support to his tenants.
In a very short space of time, the hospitality industry and, indeed, the world has changed. Coronavirus in the UK has had an unprecedented effect and, in particular, for our readers in the hospitality sector where their pubs and bars have had to shut...
South-west-based operator Palmers Brewery has given its licensees a retrospective rent reduction of 50% for the month of March, before Covid-19 hit the industry, along with no rent payable for April.
South-west-based St Austell Brewery has announced its plans for a temporary staffing structure including not making a single redundancy amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dorset-based pub group Hall & Woodhouse has announced rent and service charges have been cancelled for all its tenants for eight weeks, backdated to Sunday 22 March.
Brewer and pub operator Shepherd Neame has announced its plans for staff payment, which includes asking 85% of its employees to not work and a temporary salary reduction for higher paid staff who are still working.
