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OPINION: Dealing with the dreaded guest

19-Apr-2024 By Stosie Madi, chef-patron of the Parkers Arms

This year has been ‘different’.

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OPINION: Pubcos scoring well with licensees but can do more

04-Mar-2024 By Neil Morgan, senior director pubs & restaurants, Christie & Co

I recently had the pleasure of attending this year’s Leased & Tenanted Spotlight in London, alongside senior executives from key industry bodies.

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Price increase, quality decrease

19-Feb-2024 By Stosie Madi, chef-patron of the Parkers Arms

It is uncanny how product quality has decreased and prices have increased.

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'A pub is for life, not for 10 months of the year'

13-Oct-2023 By Gav Young, the Plough and Barleycorn, Isle of Wight

As if ‘Dry January’ wasn’t enough, the geniuses at Macmillan have joined in with Sober October. I guess when your CEO earns in excess of £190,000, originality is too much to ask!

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Support through cost-of-living-crisis crucial in 'preserving pub institution'

08-Sep-2023 By Becky Cassapi, general manager, the Plough in Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottingham

As the General Manager of the Plough in Normanton on the Wolds, Nottingham, part of The Secret Pub Company, I have had the privilege of witnessing our pub's role in the community.

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Team retention in a challenging environment

26-Jul-2023 By Emma Harrison, managing director of The Three Hills at Bartlow

The hospitality industry is under tremendous pressure. None more so than this year, with extraordinary cost rises across every single area of the business, including a mandatory increase in the minimum wage of 10% for anyone aged 23 and up.

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Financial burdens leave no room for growth

02-Feb-2023 By Emma Harrison

For the last few years, it feels like the hospitality sector has been thwarted in every direction, no matter how efficiently we run our businesses, and operating a pub/restaurant with rooms has never been harder.

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‘We struggle with the daily barrage of newspapers guessing when we will be open’

02-Feb-2021 By Fiona Hornsby, the Denbigh Castle and the Bridewell, Liverpool

Last year was an interesting one. We secured a long lease on the Denbigh Castle in Liverpool city centre and 2020 began with great hope and excitement.

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Has the Government declared war on pubs?

03-Nov-2020 By Christopher Snowdon

I have long harboured the suspicion than the ultimate objective of British politics for the last fifteen years has been to destroy the pub trade.

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How can pubs wean guests off of EOTHO-style discounts?

28-Sep-2020 By Chris Harris, head of restaurant partnerships at Cardlytics

The coronavirus crisis has had a profound impact on how and when the public visit hospitality venues.

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Not good enough Mr Sunak

24-Sep-2020 By Ed Bedington

And so the much awaited Government support has been announced and greeted with not so much a cheer as more of a whimper from an industry that is crying out for help.

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Could new coronavirus laws be helpful?

09-Sep-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

New laws announced by the Government to help protect the public from the coronavirus may sound like another layer of damaging bureaucracy for pubs, but they could be helpful.

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‘I fear rule breaking will increase without more financial aid’

27-Aug-2020 By Sacha Lord, night-time economy adviser to Greater Manchester

Here we are on the cliff edge of September already.