Health

Club Soda and Budweiser to track drinking habits

12-Apr-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Brewer Budweiser and mindful drinking organisation Club Soda have joined forces to develop an online project that will aim to help people working in the licensed trade who want to drink less alcohol.

JD Wetherspoon 'not addressing mental health issues'

09-Apr-2019 By Emily Hawkins

JD Wetherspoon (JDW) has been urged to do more to support staff, with employees describing abuse and understaffing experiences as contributing to workers’ poor mental health.

More mental support needed for hospitality staff, says charity

11-Feb-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Further support is needed for Scottish hospitality workers who experience mental health problems, a founder of a new charity said.

How can publicans look after their wellbeing?

15-Jan-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Industry experts have advised operators who are still feeling the impact of a busy festive trading period or are worried about the upcoming month on how they can best look after their wellbeing.

How to promote mental wellbeing in the pub trade

05-Dec-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Mental health awareness is more prominent than ever, but how can hospitality employers promote mental wellbeing in the workplace amid business pressures?

Which milk alternatives should pubs stock?

14-Nov-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Pubs should increase their range of milk alternatives so they can cater to people looking for indulgent options as well as functional, a new report recommends.

Government health plan should ‘avoid knee-jerk measures’

06-Nov-2018 By Emily Hawkins

The Government must avoid knee-jerk measures that cause unfair damage to hospitality businesses as it pursues a new health vision, trade body UKHospitality has cautioned.

Greene King pubs to stock kombucha

23-Oct-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Greene King pubs in the capital are to begin selling the fermented drink kombucha, which is believed to have health benefits.

Upselling in pubs is fuelling obesity crisis

07-Sep-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Upselling techniques used in pubs are helping to fuel the obesity epidemic by leading customers to consume thousands of additional and unnecessary calories, a new report is claiming.

Anger over Hungry Horse pub scrapping children's menus

05-Sep-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Customers have complained after a major refurbishment of their Hungry Horse pub left them without a children's menu.

Food safety

Zero hygiene rating for pub with encrusted fly killer and E.coli

13-Jan-2017 By Nicholas Robinson

A heavily “encrusted” electronic fly killer, the presence of E.coli and a lack of hand-washing facilities has left an historic Northamptonshire pub with the lowest food hygiene rating.

Health and Safety

Pub hit with £790 fine for failing to display hygiene rating

27-Jun-2016 By Oli Gross

A licensee has been ordered to pay £790 for failing to display a food hygiene rating of two out of five.

Sixty customers taken ill after norovirus outbreak at pub

21-Apr-2016 By Oli Gross

A pub was closed and disinfected after 60 customers and staff suffered vomiting and diarrhoea after visiting the venue.

Opinion

Guv'nor: Pubs really can be good for your health

21-Mar-2016 By Peter Tiley

The trade has taken a bit of a battering recently. The Chief Medical Officer recently cut recommended drinking limits and declared there is “no such thing as a safe level of drinking”, talk continues of a lower drink-drive limit and this year’s Dry January...