JD Wetherspoon adds calories to all dishes on new menu
JD Wetherspoon will add full calorie counts to its new menu in pubs from 17 October.
Archives for September 18, 2012
Pub property market "bottoming out" with wet-led businesses moving towards more “stabilised level of trade"
The pub property market appears to be bottoming out with wet-led businesses moving towards a more “stabilised level of trade”, according to agent Jones Lang LaSalle.
The cost of being a door supervisor
In February 2010, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) decided to review the content of the syllabus for the qualification of SIA door personnel.
Pub People Company reports rise in earnings
Pub People Company, the 37-strong East Midlands-based group led by Kevin Sammons, has reported a 3.7% rise in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) for the year to the end of March 2012.
BrewDog wins groundbreaking licence application case against Leeds City Council
A district judge has accused a licensing authority of bringing “the iron curtain clanging down” by refusing Scottish bar operator BrewDog permission to open a new site, in a ground-breaking case for the trade.
Reflections on the death of Griffith Edwards
Griffith Edwards died last week. He wasn’t exactly famous, except within alcohol policy circles, but as one of the intellectual pillars of what I term medical temperance his influence and ideas shape the politics of drinking today, from the nature of...
Keene and Fleury take on third pub
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC) has helped two licensees invest £240,000 to revamp a pub — Acorn 30 in Epsom, Surrey.
Assessing the relationship between pub companies and their tenants
Much has been made of the problems associated with gullible tenants entering the trade. The voicing of such concerns suggest these ‘naïve’ things are little more than lambs to the slaughter, the tied pub trade something akin to a savage wilderness; one...
Wells & Young's invests in a new campaign for Young's beer
Wells & Young’s is launching the first advertising campaign for its Young’s beer brand in three years.
Negative online reviews are costing pub and restaurant businesses
Hospitality businesses are losing out on new customers due to false or unjust online reviews.