Training

Step too far: can pubs ask women to wear bras?

Do pub staff have to wear underwear?

By Georgina Townshend

Pubs are entitled to have dress codes in place and can expect their staff to look smart and professional at all times. But, how far can the stipulations go?

Employee retention: How to keep your best staff

Pub Skills: retain your best staff

By Jo Faragher

Recruitment is a perennial problem for pub employers. But what if your staff wanted to stay, the good ones at least. Improving your employee retention with career growth, training and seasonal worker support is a sure-fire way to reduce your hiring burden.

Damage limitation: legal advice on potential rat infestations

In association with Poppleston Allen

Legal Q&A: should you close your pub after a rat infestation?

By Poppleston Allen

If the local environmental health officer (EHO) finds evidence of a rat infestation in a pub kitchen, should the publican close the pub at the EHO's request? Poppleston Allen explains the legal position.

Sheffield Tap: it doesn't take long for the bar to fill up

My Pub: The Sheffield Tap

By Claire Churchard

When licensee Jamie Hawksworth found a derelict Edwardian building on platform 1b of Sheffield railway station, he saw potential beneath the boarded-up windows and damage. But he says the journey to making it an award-winning pub wasn’t always easy.

Pay on the agenda: Unite is protesting against low pay in the sector

Unite to protest over ‘low pay’ in hospitality at BHA conference

By Liam Coleman

Trade union Unite has revealed it will take its campaign for better pay in the hospitality industry directly to the British Hospitality Association (BHA) by protesting outside the organisation’s annual hospitality and tourism summit in central London...

High praise: trade commends pubs 'on the front line' of terror attacks

Pubs ‘on the front line’ of terrorist attacks

By Nicholas Robinson

Pubs played a vital role in protecting and caring for stranded, injured and scared civilians during the London Bridge terror attack on Saturday (3 June) night, trade leaders have said.

Attack: pubs help to keep customers safe during terror incident (image: Google Maps)

16 pubs surround London Bridge terror attack area

By Nicholas Robinson

At least 16 pubs and many more bars and restaurants surround the area where three knife-wielding terrorists unleashed a horrific attack in the capital last night (3 June), killing seven and wounding 48. Many of the pubs played a key role in keeping customers...

The Pub Market Report from MCA Insight and MA will reveal how the trade has changed since 2016

Will licensee optimism continue to rise?

By Peter Linden, market analysis manager, MCA Insight

In the Pub Market Report conducted by MCA Insight and the MA last year, the key finding was that licensees were increasingly positive about trading.

Quick response: pub praised for its actions to curb disruption

Police praise pub for action after violence

By Georgina Townshend

Police have praised a pub for agreeing to take immediate steps to “reduce disruption” following a fight in which four people were injured.

Media guide: how to showcase your pub and drive sales

Ei launches PR guide for publicans to help 'drive sales'

By Georgina Townshend

Ei Publican Partnership has launched a “how to PR your pub” guide to help its licensees showcase their pubs in the media to help "drive sales by promoting their business to new and existing customers".

Clean break: beer hygiene is under the spotlight

7 day beer line cleaning rule ‘not strictly true’

By Nicholas Robinson

Cleaning beer lines every seven days is not necessarily the tell of good hygiene, on-trade cellar sanitisation firm Avani has claimed after a report outed the ‘dirtiest’ beer in Britain.

A plan: Cask Marque will launch a training scheme for pubs

Cask Marque’s first bar staff training plan

By Nicholas Robinson

Real ale champions at Cask Marque have revealed plans to produce the pub trade’s first comprehensive training scheme to help the sector serve cask ale at its best.

Pub success: Going multiple

Pub success: Going multiple

By Liam Coleman

You’ve squeezed everything you can out of your site and are now ready to move on up and run a second site. What challenges await you on the journey to becoming a mighty multiple operator?

Crisis call: securing the rights of existing staff may avoid a labour shortage

Brexit: employers concerned as future of EU workers remains unclear

By Michelle Perrett

Article 50 will be triggered today and the official countdown to Britain leaving the EU will begin in earnest, but the detail that is worrying most who work in the pub trade is the crisis in waiting around the residency and working rights of foreign employees...

Fight the caffeine revolution: how pubs can stay relevant

Molson Coors launches ‘save the pub’ campaign

By Nicholas Robinson

Drinks giant Molson Coors has launched a direct attack on the UK’s “one-size-fits-all” global coffee shop culture by revealing its save the great British pub campaign.

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