Healthy options

JD Wetherspoon ups prices as soft drink sales rise

07-Mar-2016 By Oli Gross

After serving its final Sunday roast yesterday, JD Wetherspoon has upped prices on it Breakfast Club menu.

Consumers demand more food information

18-Feb-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Your customers want to know more about their food than ever before, leading consumer research released by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed.

Health

Calorie labelling: Pub chains must “spell out” content

15-Feb-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Pub chains must “spell out” calorific content clearly to consumers, policy makers have been urged ahead of the Government’s upcoming childhood obesity strategy.

Comment

Why the anti-alcohol brigade should come with a warning

02-Feb-2016 By Tony Leonard

January is only just over but the neo-prohibitionists are already having a busy 2016.

CAMRA report: people who visit local pub are happier, have more friends & are more satisfied

22-Jan-2016 By Emily Sutherland

Research from the University of Oxford has revealed people who have a local or regularly visit small community pubs are happier, have more close friends, and are more satisfied with their lives than those who don’t.

Vegan

Former Brewdog man opens vegan-focused pub in Bristol

18-Jan-2016 By Daniel Woolfson

A new pub in Bristol has opened serving a menu of almost completely vegan dishes.

Healthy options

Call for exercise-equivalent calorie labelling

15-Jan-2016 By Oli Gross

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has called for 'activity-equivalent' calorie labelling, which would show how much exercise would be required to burn off calories contained in food and drink.

#TryJanuary

Vegetarian food draws customers to pubs in January

04-Jan-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

Heavily-promoting healthy food options in January can tempt fat-fighting consumers through pub doors during the period of self-restraint, a vegetarian and vegan food distributor has claimed.

Health

Council chiefs call for calorie labelling on alcoholic drinks

04-Jan-2016 By James Evison

Calorie labelling on bottles and cans of alcoholic drinks should be introduced to combat obesity, council chiefs have said.

Trends

Healthy food options: what's coming in 2016?

04-Jan-2016 By Nicholas Robinson

As more people decide they know what’s best for their own health, Alison Baker looks at how pubs can offer food and drink to meet requirements

Legislation

Allergens law anniversary: pubs struggle with consumer demand

09-Dec-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Pubs are still failing to provide a wider enough choice of dishes for customers with specialist diets since the introduction of EU legislation on allergens one year ago, new research claims.

Sugar tax

BBPA chief: sugar tax will “increase burden” on brewers and pubs

30-Nov-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

The introduction of a heavy tax on sugar would make things harder for pubs and brewers which already face considerable levels of tax including beer duty and business rates, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has warned.

Sugar Tax

Sugar tax and nutritional labelling enforced under lobby group’s plans

30-Nov-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Prime Minister David Cameron is facing increased pressure from the sugar lobby group Action on Sugar (AoS) to implement a heavy tax on sugary food and drink and to enforce nutritional labelling on menus to help tackle the UK’s growing obesity epidemic.

Food businesses could be damaged by 'scaremongering campaigns'

10-Nov-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Pub food operators’ businesses could be damaged by “scaremongering” campaigns such as Jamie Oliver’s recent sugar tax campaign, a Yorkshire chef has claimed. 

Podcast

Wetherspoons’ food developer: ‘a winning kids’ food menu’

26-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Wetherspoons’ food developer Sophie Jennings has revealed how the high street pub chain was one of the top pubs for healthy children’s meals on the Soil Association’s Eating Out report yesterday (21 October).