Pub Operators

Pubs need to do more to tackle no-shows

08-Mar-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Operators should move towards technology to help them deal with the industry-wide issues of no-shows, according to a booking expert.

60% of customers want accurate allergen information when eating out

15-Aug-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Three in five consumers (60%) believe the ability to view up-to-date and accurate allergen information is important to their dining experience, according to a recent study.

Explosion in e-cigarette use presents dilemma for pub operators

14-Apr-2014 By Phil Mellows

It’s the biggest thing to happen to smoking since the ban. Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) are on fire.

Discount vouchers could harm pubs in long-term

08-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney

Charging the full price for a meal out will become more difficult for restaurant and pub operators, due to discount vouchers.

Banks are lending, but at a price

26-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ

Small pub operators looking to banks for funding may well get the money they are after but they'll have to pay higher fees and other charges, new...

Downing funds freehold deals

08-Jul-2010 By The PMA Team

Downing Corporate Finance has provided funding for three pub operators to acquire their freeholds. Antic has acquired the freehold interest in the...

Mixed pub football fortunes

30-Jun-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Pub operators say England's match with Slovenia drew the biggest crowd of any England game — but opinions overall are mixed.

Christmas proves profitable for leading pub operators

18-Jan-2010 By Hamish Champ

The UK's leading pub operators had a bumper Christmas, according to the latest survey tracking the fortunes of the licensed sector. According to the...

It's still about the economy. Stupid

07-Sep-2009 By Hamish Champ

The summer is fast becoming little more than a distant memory in the minds of pub operators. It won't be long before the industry's attention...

Jumping to it?

27-Jun-2009 By Hamish Champ

To the untrained eye it could look as if brewers and pub operators have been falling over themselves to do right by their licensees in the wake of...

'Supermarkets bearing brunt of fall in beer consumption'

26-Apr-2009

"It will be of small comfort to pub operators that their bête noire, the supermarkets, which undercut them with deep discounting on popular lagers,...

Full price for food — a thing of the past

20-Mar-2009 By Tony Halstead

A new mindset of bargain-hunting has gripped the UK consumer. Tony Halstead looks at how pub operators are taking advantage of the phenomenon with...

Pubs anger at 'heavy-handed' Glasgow cops

25-Feb-2009

A police chief has denied trade claims that heavy-handed and obnoxious officers have made Glasgow "a police state".A summit meeting was held between...

City opinion Jonathan Wildgoose

05-Jun-2008

Learning a lesson from supermarkets Many pub operators and licensees have strong opinions about supermarkets. In many cases, they see the...

Machines & Gaming: Inspired appointment

19-Mar-2008

How are your fruit machines performing? The chances are you're not going to know until somebody comes round to collect the cash, and that's the way...

Pubco shares slide in wake of Budget

13-Mar-2008 By Hamish Champ

Shares in a number of listed pub operators and brewers took a hammering today as the cost implications of yesterday's Budget began filtering...

We must act and act now

23-Nov-2006

Beer producers, pub owners, pub operators; it no longer matters on which side of this £28bn industry you sit, we are all under attack. The issue at...

Speak up on smoke ban

11-Aug-2005

Licensees and pub operators are being urged to make their voices heard before the close of the Government's smoking cons- ultation on September 5.Key...

Technology: An end to the paperchase?

20-May-2005

Phil Mellows reports how new technologies can help reduce the burden of bureaucracy.There is little need to tell pub operators about the increasing...

Operators fight licence conditions in court

17-Jun-2004

Pub operators in Newcastle under Lyme are taking the local authority to court over its policy of forcing pubs to search customers for drugs. Yates...

Partnership approach to tackle problem drinking

15-Mar-2004

The government has stopped short of introducing legal controls on 'happy hours' and other promotions which encourage problems.Instead, pub operators...

Will war have an effect on pubs?

06-Feb-2003

These are tough times for the industry. In recent years pub operators, and the leisure sector at large, have faced a series of trading challenges.The...

S&N quashes 6C merger speculation

03-Jul-2002

Scottish & Newcastle has quashed talk of a Six Continents merger - for now - and says it will remain pub operators for "as long as it is in our...

Trade unites in campaign for better training

08-Apr-2002

Licensees and pub operators are being urged to get behind a campaign to create a powerful voice to push for better training.The government is in the...

TUC in talks with pubcos over continuing long hours

07-Feb-2002

A trade union representing pub managers said it was continuing talks with pub operators over 48-hour week regulations, as a new survey criticised...

Forum attacks high pub rents

11-Oct-2001

Pub property managers have hit out at leisure developers who expect high rents from pub operators, but have a poor understanding of their business....