Greene King Pub Partners is making a multimillion-pound investment in financial support for its tied tenants to help them through the COVID-19 crisis. The investment is ongoing and now sees rent reduced by 90% for all tied pubs from 11 June until they can legally reopen. The 90% concession will continue during the first four weeks that a pub can legally reopen and then remain … [Read more...]
Covid-19 Pub cleaning
When it comes to COVID-19 pub cleaning, good hygiene and cleanliness is the best line of defence. At TWO Services, we provide reactive and preventative sanitise cleans for COVID-19 outbreaks in pubs. Pub cleaning Covid-19 -fogging Keeping surfaces clean is extremely important to protect the safety of building inhabitants. Our fogging system is a quick and easy way to … [Read more...]
Greene King to roll out delivery and takeaway services
Greene King has announced introduction of delivery and takeaway services from its Metropolitan Pub Company division in London. Twenty-nine pubs will offer delivery, ten of which will also provide a click and collect takeaway service, from Friday 22 May. The London based Metropolitan pubs will operate a combination of food delivery, via Deliveroo, as well as a click and … [Read more...]
Greene King support TEAM
Greene King has today announced the launch of a support fund in partnership with the Licensed Trade Charity to help team members affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The Team Member Support Fund will be set-up with an initial donation of £300,000 from Greene King. The funds have been raised from a combination of voluntary salary sacrifices from the Executive Board and … [Read more...]
Pubs face permanent closure
The British Beer & Pub Association has surveyed members, showing alarming results. Concerns that UK pubs have been abandoned without the financial support promised has left many in jeopardy of permanent closure. Members of the pub association were asked if pubs had received the £10,000 or £25,000 grant. They were also asked – if they had applied for finance – … [Read more...]
Pubs flouting Covid-19 lockdown have licences reviewed
Police have more than enough to do currently amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, so we are sad to report that enforcing lockdown is unfortunately amongst them. The licensee of a pub in the Sheffield area is one sorry example of putting money ahead of the health of his customers and neighbours. The sacrifices that millions of people and businesses are making during this … [Read more...]
East Anglian pub and restaurant group feeding the frontlines
The generosity of communities and local businesses in East Anglia is fuelling Chestnut pubs and restaurants aid to NHS workers. Chestnut have now raised £25,000 to facilitate 10,000 free meals to NHS and care frontline workers. Launched just 12 days ago, over 1,000 meals have already been supplied to Hospitals and Care Homes. 800 weekly meal deliveries have already been … [Read more...]
Stonegate’s 4,000 mile empathy trip raises £12,000
Stonegate Covid-19 - Stonegate Managers on top-tier Training Programme raise nearly £12,000 for families affected by COVID-19 in companywide effort. Members of the Stonegate Pub Company team currently enrolled on the company’s eighth cohort of its top tier training programme, Aspirations, completed an amazing 590 mile virtual journey last Monday night, raising nearly £12,000 … [Read more...]
Government reject £750m help for breweries
The Government has rejected a deferral of beer duty payments due on 25th April relating to beer produced in March. Beer duty for the whole of the next quarter, amounting to £750 million, April-June, will also not be deferred. Brewery sales to pubs currently is about zero, and this is due to pubs following Government Covid-19 guidelines. The relationship between pubs and … [Read more...]
Local Authorities named and shamed over Covid-19 grants
The hospitality industry across the UK is staring at banks unwilling to lend money to hospitality businesses that urgently need liquidity. In the past month hospitality businesses received no income due to closing, following government guidelines. The reluctance of banks to lend is a major problem, we now learn that some local authorities are delaying grant … [Read more...]
Pubs and Gove disagree over reopening timings
The British Beer & Pub Association is discussing how pubs can reopen and operate post the COVID-19 crisis. But, as pubs plan and prepare for reopening, Michael Gove clearly has other ideas. The trade body says pubs will need a minimum of three weeks’ notice on lifting of restrictions to allow time to prepare to reopen. Brewers will also need this time to … [Read more...]
Pub’s online festival raises £13k for local hospital
Weymouth’s popular music festival, the Quayside Music Festival, run by the Rendezvous & Royal Oak, headed online on Sunday 12 April for its first ever Virtual Quayfest. The music festival saw 20 musicians perform over a 12-hour period, from 12pm to 12am, and raised £13,200 for the local Dorset County Hospital. The success of the event was thanks to a collaboration of … [Read more...]
Stonegate ensure furloughed staff still enjoy the same sense of community
Stonegate Pub Company has launched a new community initiative via its internal platform, Academy Online. The segment of the platform is designed to ensure its furloughed staff still enjoy the same sense of community that Stonegate prides itself on instilling across the business. Academy Online is available to all employees and is accessible via desktop computer and … [Read more...]
Conker Season starts early for Love Drinks
Love Drinks has further consolidated its portfolio of premium artisan spirits after taking on the UK distribution rights for Dorset’s leading craft spirit maker – Conker. The company’s award-winning portfolio includes Dorset Dry Gin, RNLI Navy Strength Gin, Port Barrel Aged Gin and a Conker Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur. Samantha Burke, Managing Director of Love Drinks was … [Read more...]
