Easter

Stonegate brings back 'Kids Eat for £1' deal

26-Mar-2024 By Rebecca Weller

Stonegate Group, Britain’s largest pubco, has announced the relaunch of its ‘Kids Eat for £1’ initiative this Easter.

Experiential offers will triumph during Easter weekend

06-Apr-2023 By Gary Lloyd

Operators delivering an experience to customers will be the winners for Easter this weekend.

Pubs to miss out on £325m in Easter beer sales

01-Apr-2021 By Emily Hawkins

UK pubs will miss out on the sale of 85m pints this Easter, according to the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).

Great British Pub Awards

Pub Awards: Best Family finalist - The Five Bells, Colne Engaine, Essex

08-Sep-2016 By MA

This is a strong, family-focussed pub that offers a good mix of services and events for all aspects of its local community.

How children's drawings can make money in your pub

01-May-2015 By Michelle Perrett

Fun drawing competition is as ideal holiday-based activity for pubs.

Pub sector saw sales boom across the UK in April

14-May-2014 By James Wallin

Pub and restaurant groups saw a 4.4% rise in like-for-like sales in April – with growth particularly strong outside of London.

Leading operators experience Easter weekend sales dip

01-May-2014 By Mark Wingett

Like-for-like sales declined 3.8% over the Easter weekend across 25 leading pub and restaurant groups against the corresponding four-day holiday last year, according to latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker.

Licensees offering exciting Easter events

11-Apr-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

With Easter just days away, food-led pubs have been finalising their plans to make the most of the extended weekend

BUSINESS BOOSTER

Money makers: Ideas for driving food and drink sales at your pub

07-Apr-2014 By PubFood

PubFood's focus on event and promotional ideas for your pub

Pub caterers' Easter plans

24-Mar-2014 By Sheila McWattie

PubFood looks at pub activity planned for Easter (20 April).

Cracking opportunities: Making the most of Easter

12-Mar-2012 By Sheila McWattie

Pubs can go hell for leather to increase takings over the forthcoming Easter weekend by staging themed activities and ensuring their food and drink offer ticks the right box. Sheila McWattie report.

Easter and Royal Wedding boosts managed chains

17-May-2011 By Ewan Turney

The bumper Easter and Royal Wedding weekends boosted like-for-like sales by 3.8% amongst 21 major pub and restaurant chains, according to the Coffer...

Pubs and restaurants report March slowdown

18-Apr-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Pub and restaurant groups reported a slowdown in like-for-like sales in March, but the eating-out market continued to outperform the retail sector....

Peggy's Snack Sensations: Nibble on this

26-Mar-2008

can¹t believe we¹ve already had Easter ­ it only seemed like five minutes since we¹d wrapped up the rude Santas in newspaper before we were...

Licensing@aol.com

13-Mar-2008

Presence of DPS Q We have been told that our premises licence requires that alcohol may only be sold when there is a designated premises supervisor...

Pubs celebrate Easter profits

11-Apr-2007 By Gareth Iacobucci

Pubs across the UK celebrated healthy profits over the Easter weekend as the good weather brought pub-goers out in droves. Seaside pubs were...

Pubs across UK may be forced to close early on Good Friday

18-Apr-2006

Pubs which chose not to alter their hours under the new licensing regime may have to close at 10.30pm on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Licensees who...

Easter: Start of a new season

30-Mar-2006

Easter weekend, which traditionally kicks off the summer season for pubs, is only a couple of weeks away.The biting wind in recent days might have...

Good Friday TEN extension

16-Mar-2006

Q On your page recently you mentioned Good Friday. We have a straight conversion, which lists Good Friday hours as the same as Sunday, that is,...

How was trade over the Easter weekend holiday?

31-Mar-2005

Adrian Clay Litten Tree, Blackpool "We had a good weekend overall even though Easter was quite a bit earlier this year. This is traditionally the...

Trade gives cautious welcome to improved Easter trading

04-Apr-2002

Improved trading over the Easter weekend has been given a cautious welcome by pubs and pub operators.General good weather over the four-day bank...