The Inspiration for Pub Success Since 1794
The past year has seen a 4.4% decline in wet-led pubs and bars– including a 5.1% fall in community pubs - according to the new Market Growth Monitor from AlixPartners and CGA Peach.
The 2017 rates at your pub are being set soon. Michelle Perrett finds out why your details must be accurate.
Stonegate has updated the food offer at its student-focused ‘Common Room’ concept pubs.
With beer available from 1,500 breweries in the UK, and hundreds of imported beers on the market, knowledgeable staff are essential to making the most of the beer revolution. It’s not just a matter of avoiding spoilage and waste.
Branded food pubs bucked the wet-led pubs closure trend over the past 12 months with a 9% growth in openings.
Pubs have taken to twitter to poke humour at allegations that Prime Minister David Cameron once inserted "a private part of his anatomy in a dead pig’s head".
Pub focus
When the Staith House was unveiled two years ago, it took just £500 in its first week. Nicholas Robinson discovers how this pub is now an award-winning phenomenon
Car park sale
A licensee who wants to save his pub by selling part of the car park is facing fierce opposition from Dudley councillors and residents.
Sport
Heineken has signed a deal with BT Sport to offer its on-trade customers a discounted TV sport package.
Controversial plans for a new Wetherspoons pub in Hertfordshire are facing further delays after borough council officers recommended the planning application be rejected.
Beer
Tottington pub, the Dungeon Inn, has paid homage to its roots by developing its very own beer, named Whimbury Hill.
A top chef has joined forces with royalty and government ministers to urge food businesses to be more supportive of local produce by displaying the provenance of the food on their menus during British Food Fortnight.
Publicans who stole £60,000 of VAT by faking invoices for non-existent refurbishments to pubs they ran have been sentenced.
Pub operator and brewer Brakspear has appointed Ed Turner, formerly managing director of Geronimo Inns, as a non-executive director with a brief to help develop its managed pub division.
New Opening
The operators behind a successful London deli have opened their first pub, the Hour Glass in South Kensington, to the public.