PUBS CODE
Agreement over Lords debate outcome
The Government appears to have achieved the impossible in drafting a pubs code that is welcomed by both representatives of tenants and pub companies alike.
Archives for March 10, 2015
Legal
Legal advice: Beware of the clocks changing
Twice a year the clocks change, and we are unfortunately coming to the change that requires us to get up an hour earlier.
Beer Innovation Summit
BrewDog set for keynote summit talk
BrewDog has been revealed as a keynote speaker at next month’s Beer Innovation Summit, organised by the Publican’s Morning Advertiser.
Business advice
Running a pub - part 1: Starting out
The first in a three-part series of looking into the enduring challenge of running a pub. Glynn Davis offers insight, practical advice and best-practice case studies with successful operators at key stages of their pub-operating journeys to give...
Opinion
The Government has a duty to assist
With the pub industry eagerly awaiting the 2015 Budget (18 March), are we going to get another ‘smooth’ ride?
Legal tips
Running a pub: Five legal tips
Paul Mildenstein, chief executive of pub funding specialist Liberis, explains the crucial legal tips when starting out as a publican.
Craft cola, sober raves and drinks for the older crowd
According to Back to the Future Part II we should all be drinking $50 vitamin-enriched Pepsi Perfect this year but the prediction hasn’t been entirely accurate.
Recruitment
Running a pub: How pubcos recruit publicans
Matthew Ralphs, recruitment marketing manager, for Enterprise Inns explains how the pubco recruits tenants and lessees into its business.
Business Booster
Pub to offer ‘wine and vine’ days
A Kent pub has teamed up with a local vineyard to offer ‘wine and vine’ experience days to customers.
New campaign to help publicans that are pressured to serve drunks
A new poster campaign to help licensees raise awareness of the laws on buying alcohol for and selling alcohol to a drunken person has been launched today.
Legal
Legal advice: The risk of fire hazard rules
It goes without saying that there is a very large amount of regulatory compliance, which affects licensed premises. Fire safety is a such an area, which is very important, bearing in mind the tragic consequences that can flow from a failure to comply.
Business Booster
Be in pole position for F1
The 2015 season of the Formula One World Championship, starting this weekend, will make Grand Prix racing a compelling entertainment offer for licensees. James Evison explains.
Experience
Running a pub: Personal experience of starting out
When John Cavanagh took up a five-year lease at the Hamilton Russell Arms, in Thorpe Thewles, County Durham, four years ago, it had lost much of its trade following a fire.
BrewDog gets £1.5m government grant
Scottish brewer and pub operator BrewDog has been awarded £1.5m by the Scottish Government.
JJ Foodservice launches new menu ideas mini-movie campaign What's Cooking
The specialist UK foodservice company asked its customers to share their menu ideas and recipes created using JJ Foodservice products on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook with a 30-second video filmed by a JJ Foodservice team.
Shepherd Neame eyes potential for managed estate growth
Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Kent-based brewer and pub operator Shepherd Neame, has said the company is in a good position to grow its managed estate.
Pubs code
Government agrees exemptions to MRO element of pubs code
The Government has said it will introduce exemptions to the market rent only option element of the pubs code for pubcos willing to make “significant investments” and also to “genuine franchise agreements”.
What will we be drinking in 2020?
If kale, coconut water and craft beer were the tastes of 2014, what will we be drinking five years from now?
Pub campaigners key in forcing planning changes
The strength of campaigning by local residents was a key factor in the decision to issue two pubs with ‘article 4 directions’, according to the local authorities involved.