Training

Opinion

‘Apprenticeships can shape the future development of the hospitality industry’

26-Apr-2021 By Jill Whittaker, managing director, HIT Training

The hospitality sector hasn’t been able to perform to its fullest potential for over a year now, and as we begin our transition out of the lockdown phases, we’re going to see a huge surge in demand.

Access Group acquires CPL Learning

21-Apr-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

The Access Group has acquired learning and development partner for the hospitality and retail sectors, CPL Learning, to strengthen its customer proposition.

Unemployment figures ‘show fragility of sector’

20-Apr-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

The latest jobs data highlights how fragile the hospitality sector is alongside the importance it has to the country’s economic recovery off the back of the pandemic, according to one trade body.

The Lock In Podcast

The Lock In Podcast: People power

03-Feb-2021 By Ed Bedington

It's all about the people in this episode of the podcast as the team talk training, furlough challenges, keeping teams engaged, future recruitment challenges and we speak to special guest Jamie Campbell from CPL Learning to get his advice and tips...

Winter hospitality shifts down 81% versus 2019

27-Jan-2021 By Stuart Stone

The number of hospitality shifts worked in 2020 was 47% lower than 2019’s overall figure – peaking at a 97% drop during the toughest months of the sector’s shutdown.

Covid-19 shrinks hospitality workforce by a quarter

15-Jan-2021 By Stuart Stone

In the region of 660,000 hospitality jobs were lost in 2020 according to the latest figures from sector software provider Fourth.

Hospitality worst hit sector for job losses

16-Dec-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

The hospitality industry has been the hardest hit by redundancies this year, latest official figures have found.

650k hospitality jobs lost in 2020

08-Dec-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

This year has seen an estimated 650,000 job losses in the hospitality sector, a new study has revealed.

Employers to pay 10% of furlough wages from today

01-Sep-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Businesses including pub operators will have to pay 10% of furloughed workers’ wages with taxpayers contributing 70% from today (Tuesday 1 September).

A-Level results 'shambles' shows need for high quality hospitality apprenticeships, says B&K boss

18-Aug-2020 By Stuart Stone

The chaotic release of A-Level results further highlights the need to develop high calibre hospitality apprenticeships as an alternative to higher education, Brewhouse & Kitchen’s Kris Gumbrell has said.

Leicester operator helping community while closed

15-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

A publican in Leicester has shared his experiences of a continued shutdown after the city was placed into a ‘local lockdown’ at the start of the month, owing to high numbers of Covid-19 cases.

Face coverings 'right thing to do'

13-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Publicans have shared their experiences with face masks at their sites, reporting positive reactions from customers and staff.

Pubs to be given £2,000 for young apprentice hires

09-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The Government will pay pub employers who hire new apprentices for a six month period.

‘Virtual training is the way of the future’

25-Jun-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Online classrooms will become a permanent fixture in the delivery of pub training according to the head of training at Star Pub & Bars.

CPL launches course for reopening skills

15-Jun-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Hospitality training provider CPL Learning has launched a new programme to help team members get ready to return to work in pubs.

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The future of staffing at your site

03-Jun-2020 By Emily Hawkins

As reopening gets closer, you will have to look at the changing duties of staff members, how to split their shifts and whether you will have to change opening hours to suit needs.

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‘If you have focus, determination, tenacity and drive, you will get through it’

02-Jun-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

After a fire closed his business for six months, licensee Brendan Padfield learnt lessons that he has used to put the pub in the best stead for reopening after the coronavirus closure.

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Training must not be neglected for a safe reopening

13-May-2020 By Ed Bedington

It’s important not to neglect training in the rush to reopen, a leading provider has warned.

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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to improve mental wellbeing of pub workplaces

13-May-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The lockdown period presents a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for pub employers to ensure their workplace protects staff mental health.

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Safety worries potential barrier for pub recruitment

07-May-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Operators have shared their concerns about how people could be put off entering the pub sector by perceptions of it being unsafe or unstable.

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Push training while staff are furloughed, say operators

01-May-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Operators have said they would like the Government to enable them to request staff do training while pubs are closed, rather than this being voluntary.

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Pub staff can still receive training if furloughed

06-Apr-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The Government has updated its guidance for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to say that pub employers can continue training their staff even if they have been furloughed.

Double Dutch founders launch mentoring scheme for female mixologists

26-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

The founders of premium mixer brand Double Dutch have unveiled a new scholarship and mentoring programme for female mixologists in the hope of tackling the under-representation of women in the UK drinks trade.

Opinion

If I were a bar person or waiter I’d be profoundly insulted by the use of the term ‘unskilled labour’

24-Feb-2020 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown reacts to the new immigration rules that downplay the difficult roles hospitality workers have

‘Pubs need a new, young, energetic and enthusiastic generation to take them into the future’

21-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

From university dropouts and former apprentices to masters’ graduates and multiple operators, The Morning Advertiser (MA) spoke to nine publicans who have made their mark at the business end of the bar in their 20s.

One-in-four Brits reckon running a pub is a ‘very difficult’ career

20-Feb-2020 By Stuart Stone

A cocktail of long hours and spiralling sector costs appear too strong for more than three quarters of the British public, who consider running a pub to be a ‘difficult’ career path.

How does the pub sector deal with mental health issues?

17-Feb-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Mental health is at the forefront of minds, particularly at the moment, and the pub trade is an industry that could do more to support its workers in this area.

Fifth of women ‘left out’ because of gender in a pub

11-Feb-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

One in five (19%) women are most likely to say they have felt left out in a pub because of their gender, a new study has found.

Pubs to tackle £3.2bn a year food waste

11-Feb-2020 By Alice Leader

A software provider for the hospitality industry is calling for operators to reduce food waste because the average value of wasted goods at every site is more than £10,000 a year.

Trade body vows to increase apprenticeships by more than half

05-Feb-2020 By Alice Leader

The sector is looking to make positive changes to attract and retain talent as it celebrates ‘looking beyond’ with National Apprenticeship Week.

Time to put mental health words into action

04-Feb-2020 By Emily Hawkins

The organiser of a project focusing on mental health in hospitality said he realised the pub sector still has a long way to go in breaking down the attached stigmas.

Opinion

Why pubs need to start thinking in terms of the circular economy

28-Jan-2020 By Karen Lynch

Karen Lynch, CEO of ethical water brand Belu, explains why the ‘circular economy’ has to be central to the way the pub sector thinks about single-use items.

Long shifts are hospitality workers’ biggest bugbear

24-Jan-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

More than half (59%) of pub and bar staff dislike the long shifts and a similar number (54%) said they don’t like unreliable work shift patterns, new research has revealed.

Top tips: Quieter period may be ideal for training

17-Jan-2020 By Poppleston Allen

The chaos of the festive season has passed and you are probably looking forward to some time to relax and unwind throughout the quieter period of the start of the year.

Stonegate on verge of winning Best New Wellbeing Strategy

15-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Stonegate Pub Company could be named Best New Wellbeing Strategy, due to its focus on improving staff and work culture.

Pubs are ‘own worst enemy’ when recruiting teens

15-Jan-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs should work with schools and offer more work experience opportunities to encourage more teenagers into the trade, industry bosses have said.

Stonegate launches female mentoring scheme

16-Dec-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

Stonegate Pub Company has unveiled a female mentoring programme in a bid to push the representation of women in leadership roles across the group.

Opinion

Preventing losses in the pub sector caused by fraud and staff error

06-Dec-2019 By Malcolm Muir

Malcolm Muir, consultancy director at Venners, explains how a few simple procedural tweaks can have a significant impact on an operator’s bottom line.

Drink Tank

What is the key to your staff delivering high-quality serves?

28-Nov-2019 By Alice Leader

How can your staff hit the perfect sell, but avoid failing at the point of execution?

City of London pubs to be given stab kits

18-Nov-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs in London’s financial district are set to receive bleed control kits in response to rising knife crime in the area, police bosses have announced.

Pub staff warned of increased abuse over Christmas

15-Nov-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Pub and hospitality workers have been warned to brace themselves for more customer confrontation over the festive period, after research found a significant number of consumers had witnessed abusive behaviour towards those in customer-facing roles last...

Review guide dog policy, guidance urges

12-Nov-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Publicans must ensure they are following the law around guide dogs, new guidance for the sector has prompted.

'Small changes can have huge impact on disabled customers'

11-Nov-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs have been encouraged to identify which areas of their businesses they can improve to give disabled customers a better experience ahead of Purple Tuesday.

Could hiring ex-offenders help tackle chef shortage?

04-Nov-2019 By Nikkie Thatcher

How do you solve these problems: rehabilitating prisoners so they can rejoin society in a working capacity and an industry crying out for employees to fill huge staff shortages? Charity group Only A Pavement Away has the answers.

Charity thanks pub chains for promoting staff support

18-Oct-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Staff support organisation the Licensed Trade Charity (LTC) has praised two pub chains for their work promoting the charity’s grants to their employees.

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