Hospitality Guild launches new web portal
The Hospitality Guild has launched a new web portal providing information for both individuals seeking a job or already working in hospitality, as well as for employers and training providers.
Archives for April 10, 2013
How to... Handle noise complaints
You have owned and traded your premises for a number of years. On weekend nights in particular you rely on promoted DJ events to entice people into your premises. During the years when this has been going on you have never had a single complaint from...
ALMR appoints new chief executive
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has appointed a new chief executive – David McHattie, a former operations director at Fuller’s and The Restaurant Group, and operations manager at Mitchells & Butlers.
Gaming machines, licensing authorities and pub visits
The statisticians have been hard at work on behalf of the Gambling Commission with interesting results (honestly!) for the licensed trade. The commission recently published the licensing authorities’ statistics up to 31 March 2012, which include details...
Pubco regulation: Are all bets off?
It almost seems apt that, on the weekend of the Grand National, the pubco regulation debate got caught up in Party Politics (winner, 1992).
Alcoholic whipped cream to launch in UK
An alcoholic squirty cream from the US is set for UK pubs and bars.
The future’s green with Element 29 vodka
A new British vodka brand, which comes in an eight-litre bag-in-box, claims to be the only ‘green’ vodka on the market.
BT Sport named as sponsor of the Great British Pub Awards 2013
BT Sport is to be the title sponsor of the Great British Pub Awards 2013
Statutory code: Fair pint founder Steve Corbett writes to Chancellor George Osborne
Fair Pint founder Steve Corbett has written an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne claiming a statutory code for the pubco/tenant relationship is needed to “level the playing field”.
Pub vendors could face 'major headache' as number of cash buyers set to fall
Vendors could be set for a “major headache” as an increasing number of cash buyers will start looking for bank funding.