Owning a pub is the aspirational dream for a significant minority of people who regularly soak up the atmosphere in a pub. But just what do you need to know about the trade before starting out and what challenges lie ahead for first-time operators?
Fiona McLelland warms to the idea of enjoying a drink and a meal in a pub garden in the coming months and investigates how your pub’s outside area could do more to attract customers.
Enterprise Inns’ divisional director Nathan Wall has urged the pub industry to focus on training and quality of equipment in response to the growing trend towards cask beer.
A new poll has shown that while 95% of customers would complain to their friends about slow service in a pub or restaurant, only 48% would tell the venue.
From bar snacks to barbecues, operators up and down the country are rolling out the menus to feed their hungry customers and, hopefully, attract a few new ones.
A Bill calling for community pubs to be listed in their own use class has received support from the three major political parties after it was presented in Parliament yesterday.
Diners have made some 2,000 reservations through Orchid Group's new online booking system in its first month, amounting to 10,000 covers, the pubco has claimed.
You've had enough of your boring job and want to own a bar. You've seen a vacant property on the high street of your local town, but don't know where to start. Here are eight top tips to getting the bar up and running.
Pubs can regain the upper hand in the wider industry if they focus on providing personality, Young’s commercial director Ed Turner told last week's Future Pub Conference.
Pub operators have been encouraged to build relationships with their banks “before they need to” and make sure that the relationship is “multi-layered”.
I’ve yet to meet a publican in support of TripAdvisor. Of course,it can do good for a business, if people review kindly, but you can’t please everybody all the time.
He likes to have a laugh, but that didn’t stop Tim Burrows from plunging into the doom and gloom of the pub industry. Phil Mellows meets the new man brightening things up at the BII
The first licensee to go through the Pubs Independent Conciliation and Arbitration Service (PICA-Service), Alan Yorke, said he is still trying to work out the Government’s aim in promoting self-regulation in the sector.
Politicians looking to improve pub business rates must make it clear what they are asking the Government for, according to business rates specialist Michael Yass, director at Chesterton Humberts.
Having spent half my life in catering I still wake up with great enthusiasm and energy to go into work. I need that drive to push me and the team forward. The day that I wake up, without that feeling, that’s when it’s time to call it a day.
More than one in five British people (22.4%) say they visit the pub more frequently than they did before the smoking ban, according to a new survey of 4,817 UK pub customers by Market Force Information.
Trade bodies have given the thumbs up to the ‘breathing space’ afforded to the industry in the content of the Queen’s speech which — for the first time in 10 years — did not contain pub-specific legislative proposals.
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has expressed “deep disappointment” at the news that the Government has decided not to regulate the behaviour of the major pub companies.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) has teamed up with VisitEngland, the national tourist board, to help more pubs cater for visitors with access needs.
The charity, Drinkaware, has released a stack of facts about alcohol as part of a bid to establish itself as the number one source of information on...
The changing breakfast habits of Britons offer new challenges as well as opportunities for pubs, according to Bel UK Foodservice, producer of several...
Recruiting new staff for your pub is costly and time consuming - and the simplest way of cutting back on recruitment is by making sure you retain the...
Is there a need for another licensees' trade body? Graham Rowson Plungington Tavern, Preston, Lancashire I cannot believe there is scope for another...
Busy location on coastal main road
Extensively renovated detached public house
Five trade areas (100)
Sizeable refurbished 4-5 bedroom accommodation
Newly created beer garden (125)
Established and popular business...
