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23 Nov 2010

Pub snacks: bags of potential - Business support - Morning Advertiser

Tips for growing pub sales

• Stock mix of well-known snack brands that are unavailable in shops to create a point of difference.

• Let your customers see what snacks you sell with eye-catching displays. Eye level is buy level.

• Boost sales by offering a joint drinks and snacks deal.

• Display a snacks list so customers know what you sell. They are not telepathic.

• Offer free nuts or snack nibbles for customers ordering premium drinks, especially with a pre-meal drink.

• Consider stocking sweet snacks and confectionery, especially if you run a family pub, to capitalise on your youthful customer base.

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Pub for sale North Yorkshire, Pub for sale Middlesbrough

Westminster Hotel

Parliament Road
Middlesbrough
North Yorkshire
TS1

Gross Site Area: 7372 sq/ft*

£ 295,000

Freehold

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Food Programme, Pub Food

Sheila Dillon looks at new ideas for using food to save the British pub.

With 40 pubs a week closing down and food sales starting to equal those of drinks, the role of food in the future of the public house has never been more important. Sheila Dillon explores how one pub has come up with a groundbreaking solution to keeping business thriving.

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18 Nov 2010

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London Pubs Role to Play in Olympics 2012

The Morning Advertiser is reporting that a leading licensing solicitor has urged the Government to relax opening times for London pubs during the 2012 Olympics.
Jeremy Allen of Popplesten Allen said that it would make sense for the Government to make the order as soon as possible.The culture secretary can make a Licensing Hours Order to relax opening hours for occasions considered to be "of exceptional international, national or local significance".
The Publican reports that London Pubs are being urged by Boris Johnson to do their bit to help tourists feel at home when the Olympic Games roll into town in 2012.
Mayor of London has already started recruiting ambassadors to greet the hundreds of thousands of visitors set to arrive in the UK for the Olympics and Paralympics.London hostelries are to be key a recruiting ground with Johnson looking for locals to help guide visitors to key attractions – and pubs.
To support the bid pubs are being encouraged to take part in a poster campaign calling on customers to get involved.

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Chard pub landlord disappointed as housing plans rejected (From Chard & Ilminster News)

A PUB landlord in Chard was disappointed that his proposal for new housing in Chard was rejected this week.

Ken Mason, of the Furnham Inn on Victoria Avenue, had his proposal for four terrace houses in the beer garden of his pub turned down.

South Somerset District Council turned down the proposal as it was considered to be of an inappropriate design, failing to respect the setting of the adjacent listed building.

But at a time when pubs are looking for extra revenue and the town is in need of extra housing the decision made little sense to the landlord.

Ken said: “To put houses there is the way forward - the garden is always vandalised and is a liability and if things stay as they do there will just be an empty listed building here.”

Chard Town Council recommended approval of the proposal on the condition that the pedestrian cut through between Furnham Road and Victoria Avenue was kept in place.

It was also noted that the site is too close to the public house and as such future residents would experience unacceptable levels of noise and disturbance.

But Ken was keen to stress that noise and disturbance were kept to a minimum from his pub – which was not the kind of venue to host live music.

Ken added: “We only ever have live music in the lounge bar and it is solo artists – we don’t have five piece bands. The area closest to the plan is a purpose built skittle alley so noise is not an issue.”

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