Pub giant JD Wetherspoon (JDW) saw like-for-like volume sales rise by 17% on Tax Equality Day, a day when the pubco dropped its prices by 7.5% to highlight the benefit of a VAT reduction in the trade.
Hygiene equipment management can impact a pub’s reputation and bottom line, but there are practices operators can put in place to keep it safe, according to compliance company Klipspringer.
A Lincolnshire pub has defended its drop in its food hygiene rating from a five to a one and the licensee is confident it will be back to a five by the end of the September.
Like-for-like sales in Britain’s pub, bar and restaurant groups were ahead just 0.2% nationally compared to last August, according to the latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
The roast dinner is an institution on these shores and British Roast Dinner Week ensures no one fails to get a good helping of this all-time favourite.
The free trade is under threat from a proposed food safety regime that some believe has the potential to inflict huge financial damage unless publicans unite with other small food businesses and fight to get their voice heard.
A customer has claimed he received “better service being mugged in the street” than the service he received at a Manchester pub on review site TripAdvisor.
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon (JDW) is cutting the prices of food and drink at its 900 sites by 7.5% on Wednesday 20 September to highlight the benefit that a VAT reduction would bring to the trade.
