Archives for October 4, 2007

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Back to Basics: Retail inspiration

Where is the hub of your local community? Increasingly, research shows, it is the convenience store. People are visiting the local shop, with its...

Machines & Gaming: legal update

The Gambling Act 2005 is now with us. Fortunately, when it comes to the effect on gaming machines in licensed premises the conversion is a relatively...

opinion

Paul Smith considers the way forward for the Bar Entertainment and Dance Association From time to time, a trade association should take a long look...

Pubs told to adopt anti-terror tactics

By Tony Halstead

Pub operators are being urged by police to adopt a crisis strategy to help combat the threat of terrorist attacks on their premises. More pub...

Can you beat them at their own game?

ARE YOU a pigeon or a penguin? In evolutionary terms, you're probably better off being a generalist like a pigeon, which can thrive more or less...

Q&A: Beltran Domecq

CV:2003 to present - commercial relations director. Master of Sherry and Brandy de Jerez, Domecq-Jerez1990-2003 - director of vineyard and public...

BBPA warning over Christmas stings

By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has urged the Government to resist plans to hold the national sting campaign targeting pubs that serve...

Machines & Gaming: Machine monitoring

Of course, it's good telly. But here's proof that Dragon's Den can have a hand in bringing real results in the outside world - and even have an...

Assaults against bar staff on the rise

A growing number of bar staff are being verbally threatened and assaulted for refusing to serve underage drinkers, delegates at the British Beer...

Taking the bull by the horns

Ewan Turney reports how an £800,000 investment by Geronimo Inns transformed the crumbling Bullfinch in Sevenoaks, Kent, into a modern, food-led...

Chris Maclean: take a tip from me - or not

By Chris Maclean

I am sure I am not alone when I say that I feel awkward about tipping. I'm sure it is an English thing.From a very early age I knew you tipped a...

Machines & Gaming: The machine age

Pub gaming is on the brink of a digital revolution. For almost 1,000 years, maybe longer, there has been a tradition of game playing and gambling in...