Top Tips: Selling food with coffee
Allowing a customer to walk away holding just a coffee is a wasted opportunity. Matt Moggridge provides some tips on how to tempt them into buying something extra to eat as well
Archives for May 24, 2012
Britain expected to sell an additional 80m pints over Jubilee weekend
Britain is expected to sell between 60m and 80m extra pints of beer, and an extra 7.5m pub meals over the four-day weekend of the Jubilee predicts the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).
Jamies Wine Bar set for expansion after Kornicis secures new funding
Kornicis Group, the London-based bar and restaurant group led by Nick Tamblyn and backed by private equity group NBGI, has obtained new funding, which it plans to use to add five sites to its existing 20-strong estate over the next 12 months.
Licensing applications: Don't roll over if your application has been rejected
I have some sympathy with the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings, when faced with Gandalf’s immortal words on the bridge of Khazad-dûm: “You shall not pass!” I have heard words to similar effect from council licensing officers when served with an...
Running pubs teaches you a thing or two
I have been in this pub for over 12 years and I was at my last one for just over 11. Although this might suggest that I have staying power, it would also suggest that I must have made a few decisions along the way, not all of which would have been good...
Welsh First Minister backs Sky prices petition
A petition calling on Sky to lower its subscription prices for pubs in North Wales has received the backing of the Welsh First Minister.