During the last quarter of 2021, 56.2% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK reported a rise in earnings when compared with the same period in 2020, according to the latest quarterly Barclaycard Payments SME Barometer.
Pubs screening Six Nations rugby have seen uplifts in sales thanks to customers taking part in score predictions games, according to sport pub finding app MatchPint.
With finances facing an ever-growing squeeze and debts coming home to roost next month, the Lock In team take a look at what pub operators should be thinking about when it comes to managing cash flow, dealing with debt, handling the current utilities...
Job vacancies are 100% higher in the hospitality sector than the corresponding pre-Covid period, according to the latest labour market statistics published today (Wednesday 16 February) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The first edition of the Night-Time Industries Association (NTIA) Night-Time Economy (NTE) Summit has been confirmed to take place from 7 to 8 April 2022 in conjunction with Bristol Nights and Savenightlife.
Grass-roots campaign, Hospitality Rising, has secured about £350,000 in pre-launch seed funding in order to introduce a campaign of up to £5m to tackle the ongoing employment crisis within the hospitality sector.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) and UKHospitality (UKH), have produced best practice guidance for the management of pub repairs and dilapidations.
A National Pubwatch conference focusing on safeguarding issues within the sector will be taking place on Tuesday 22 February 2022, following a two-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic.
Pubs could see a 56% increase on energy bills following last week’s announcement from energy regulator Ofgem, however, some simple changes could save licensees money in just a few months.
The Six Nations rugby tournament kick-off helped tempt 30% more customers into pubs and bars at the weekend, according to real-time market intelligence business Oxford Partnership.
More than 880,000 sports fans will be watching the Guinness Six Nations live in a pub or bar from this weekend and 193,600 of these sports fans will be looking to make a booking, suggests research conducted by MatchPint and KAM Media in December last...
Heineken UK has released a new report examining three key sustainability trends shaping the hospitality industry: innovation in infrastructure, environmentally friendly experiences, and serving up a sustainable offering.
After an unprecedented (yes, we used that word again) two years for the hospitality industry, more and more venues are struggling to balance the books. Efficiency and cost-cutting are more important than ever.
Average drinks sales by value in Britain’s managed pubs, bars and restaurants in the week to Saturday 15 January were 12% down when compared to the same week in 2020, according to the latest CGA Drinks Recovery Tracker.
UKHospitality (UKH) has urged operators, including pubs and nightclubs, to take part in its upcoming annual Benchmarking Survey, following its hiatus last year due to the pandemic.
Technology and social media played a key part in attracting younger people to hospitality venues, but most teenagers craved in-person interaction, new research from hospitality tech firm Zonal has shown.
We all know that if we want to make money in our pubs, we need customers to buy drinks and food but there are many aspects needed to enable that to happen from having the right staff to do the right things through to back-office tech to help make the...
Almost half of publicans who participated in a snapshot survey of The Morning Advertiser readers said they would consider using cryptocurrency in their pub.
Community, entertainment, and inclusivity must come first when running a successful LGBTQ+ venue reveal operators, with the rise in homophobic hate crimes over the pandemic stressing the need for safe spaces.
Moving the Welsh matches outside of Wales during the Six Nations rugby tournament would be an “insult” to hospitality businesses because losing out on the trade provided through these key events would be a “catastrophe”.
Nearly 80% of the 38 surveyed hospitality workers have seen evidence of drug use by colleagues, a recent snap survey conducted by The Morning Advertiser (MA) has revealed.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has launched a new website, ‘Brewing Green’, to showcase its members’ efforts to reduce the sector’s environmental footprint.
The hospitality sector was among the hardest hit in December 2021 as bars, pubs and clubs saw a growth of 21.2% compared to 35.0% the previous month, new data for Barclaycard has shown.
Some 44% of sports fans said they plan to watch the 2022 Guinness Six Nations live in a pub this year with only the FIFA World Cup ranking higher, according to research by MatchPint, which allows pub customers find venues showing sports matches, and hospitality...
Since the start of the pandemic, many pubs have adopted a cashless approach, but could this lead onto a future where cryptocurrency is widely used? This is certainly the case according to one licensee in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Following announcements from Prime Minister Boris Johnson in December, including the advice to limit socialising over Christmas, the Kings Arms in Bexleyheath saw 400 cancellations in just six days, but licensee Pete Marshall is giving customers a second...
Staffing shortages forced the Duck Inn at Pett Bottom, Kent to close a week before New Year’s Day and made Christmas a difficult trading period, said chef-patron Dean Legg.
The race is under way to find out the best companies in the trade as The Publican Awards gears up for the next stages of judging and announces those in the running.
A rise in the number of brewery taprooms along with low and no-alcohol beers will take centre stage in 2022, according to beer line cleaning expert Beer Piper.
The Lock In team sign off the year with a focus on how operators can maximise the most of the current situation and plan for the worst in the New Year. From some great advice on how to offset or extend bounceback loans to best practice on handling reservations...
One in five bouncers have left the security industry and staff levels were at 80% compared to pre coronavirus levels, a City Hall report into London’s night-time economy has found.
Micropubs strip pubs back to traditional values of “friendship” and “conversation” and “bring communities back together” said the founder of the world’s first micropub Martyn Hillier.
National Pubwatch (NPW) has urged publicans to prepare for the festive period by ensuring staff have been fully trained to support vulnerable customers.
The latest episode of the Lock In Podcast sees the team focus on review sites such as TripAdvisor and Google from the Prince of Peckham in east London with the pub’s operator Clement Ogbonnaya as well as Tony Kent from Reputation.com.
Virtual spaces are here to stay, with high end venues using them to unite customers safely, increase revenue and engage with a global audience, operators have said.
A pub in Liverpool has sent a customer a £20 voucher and letter of apology 18 months after staff accused her of being drunk having failed to recognise her disability.
