Safe bar and table service - As the UK emerges from coronavirus lockdown, venues are beginning to announce or plan for re-opening. The biggest challenge is how to maintain social distancing and safety for customers and staff, while still delivering a great experience. The larger pub chains have announced a range of measures to ensure staff and customer safety, from … [Read more...]
London hospitality group puts £25,000 tab behind the bar for NHS workers
NHS workers can expect the warmest of welcomes with free drinks waiting for them at Inception Group’s eclectic mix of hospitality venues. With bars, pubs and restaurants preparing to reopen from Saturday 4th July, London-based hospitality company, Inception Group, has announced a £25,000 bar tab for NHS workers spread across its sites as part of its reopening … [Read more...]
Help for pubs to pour beer down drains
Water UK and the British Beer & Pub Association have come together to ask landlords, who have not already done so, to act quickly in order to ensure their applications to dispose of waste beer into the sewer can be processed efficiently. Water companies are standing by to help and have made it as easy as possible to dispose of beer by making disposal applications simpler, … [Read more...]
Wellington Pub Company tenants closing due to rent intransigence
The Wellington Pub Company, which has a portfolio of 750 pubs and is owned by the billionaire Reuben brothers is demanding full rent from some of its pub tenants who have not traded since March. The pub group has now been accused by many tenants of being ruthless in refusing to cut rents due on premises closed as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Regional media … [Read more...]
Stonegate extend pub support
Stonegate Pub Company has extended its support for publicans within its leased and tenanted business, Ei Publican Partnerships, creating an overall support package, which has been implemented during the COVID-19 lockdown, in excess of £28 million. The latest provision, in light of new Government secure guidance and confirmation that all pubs in England will be able to … [Read more...]
Guinness launch £80m fund helping pubs to reopen safely
Drinks giant Diageo, maker of Guinness has launched a £80 million programme to help pubs across the world to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. The two-year programme called ‘Raising the Bar’ is to start next month to be introduced across hospitality sectors globally. Guinness fund pub reopening In the UK and Ireland, the programme will be available to … [Read more...]
Will Wetherspoons celebrate reopening
Towards the end of March immediately following lockdown, JD Wetherspoons made some hasty decisions. The first was to let 43,000 workers go unpaid until the company had first received financial support from the government. Then in a video address to workers adding insult to injury, JD Wetherspoons Chairman Tim Martin suggested that the pub group’s 43,000 workers should … [Read more...]
4th July – Hospitality’s Independence (Revolution) Day Looms
The uncertainty surrounding the 4th July as the Government’s reopening date for the UK hospitality industry is leading some businesses within it to state they will open regardless of any further sanctions to go ahead. As financial pressure reaches the point where hospitality businesses face permanent closure many doubtless are calculating that if sufficient numbers … [Read more...]
Greene King to repay Benjamin Greene’s enthusiastic role in slavery
The Black Lives Matter global movement has recently challenged Covid-19 for headlines across the world following the televised murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police. Now two UK businesses are in the headlines for their founders’ involvement in the 19th century trans-Atlantic slave trade, Lloyd’s of London and brewer and pub chain Greene King. Both on Wednesday pledged to … [Read more...]
Pub operating model changes for reopening
Chef and publican, Joe Tansley, of the Bell and Cross in Worcestershire has shown immense innovation in the face of adversity, successfully adapting the operating model of his pub, with plans to harness the power of technology to safely reopen the site over the coming weeks. The news, which comes after the Government announcement that pubs won’t reopen until 4 July at the … [Read more...]
Ei Publican Partnerships invests £300,000 in pub PPE for reopening
Ei Publican Partnerships has announced a Personal Protective Equipment support package of almost £300,000, for its pubs ahead of reopening. Each pub will receive a free PPE starter kit, which will comprise disposable masks, disposable gloves, hand sanitiser and rolls of black/yellow self-adhesive floor tape. In advance of the publication of the Government’s COVID-19 Secure … [Read more...]
£15 million in Pub Safe measures spend revealed by Greene King
Greene King has unveiled details of how its pubs will look and operate ahead of them re-opening, including ‘Pub Safe’, a new set of five promises to its team and customers. All Greene King’s 1,700 managed pubs will follow a new set of Pub Safe promises, designed to look after team members and ensure customers can socialise safely. The Pub Safe Promises scheme centres around … [Read more...]
Applause for reopening on brand
Reopening hospitality venues will be a challenge, a great big massive challenge. And there has been much speculation on how to best go about that challenge. Earlier today we received news from Inception Group, who for us have a plan to reopen that not only seems to cater for the restrictions, it takes them and uses them to emphasise their brands. Marketers would say … [Read more...]
Increased support for pubs
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...]
