Pubs, Bars & Clubs News – Page 376

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    BrewDog reveals target cities for BottleDog

    2014-02-20T07:45:00Z

    BrewDog, the Scottish brewer and pub operator, says Aberdeen, Glasgow and Manchester are “in its sights” for future openings for its craft beer shop concept BottleDog

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    Fake pub set up to study people’s drinking habits

    2014-02-20T07:44:00Z

    London South Bank University has spent £20,000 transforming a laboratory into a mock pub to investigate drinking habits

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    Parched Pubs to open first restaurant

    2014-02-20T07:42:00Z

    Parched Pubs, the south London-based pub operator, is to launch its first restaurant format, Edwins Brasserie in Borough High Street next month

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    Mood Pubs eyes expansion

    2014-02-20T07:35:00Z

    Mood Pubs, the Leeds-based community pub operator, is looking to add a sixth site to its estate this year, as well as opening the flood-hit Golden Lion in Todmorden, Lancashire, by Easter

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    Lay to leave Brains

    2014-02-19T11:18:00Z

    SA Brain, the Cardiff-based brewer and leisure operator, has announced that Philip Lay, retail director, will leave the business at the end of March, after 12 years with the company

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    McMullen's enhances tenanted pubs

    2014-02-19T08:04:00Z

    Around 70% of McMullen’s tenanted pubs have been enhanced to the standard of its managed houses following a series of “rep and deck” investments, tenant operations manager Gavin Mansfield has told M&C Report

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    PIRRS 'becoming more effective'

    2014-02-19T07:50:11.863Z

    A scheme aimed at resolving rent disputes between pub companies and tenants is gaining in effectiveness as both licensees and pub companies become more familiar with the service, it has been claimed

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    Knife & Fork up to five

    2014-02-19T07:49:52.107Z

    Knife & Fork Food, the Cardiff-based pub and restaurant operator led by Sean Murphy and Serge Luceau, has secured its fifth site

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    Elite Pubs up to six

    2014-02-19T07:49:20.973Z

    Elite Pubs, the Kent-based operator, has secured its sixth pub after acquiring the freehold of the Poacher near Tonbridge, for an undisclosed sum

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    ​Banwell House eyes acquisitions and rooms

    2014-02-19T07:49:00Z

    Banwell House Pub Company, the group led by former Greene King regional manager Toby Brett, is on the lookout for further sites whilst also moving into the accommodation sector

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    M&B revamps two Castle pubs

    2014-02-19T07:48:00Z

    Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) has unveiled a new look for two of its London pubs in its Castle estate after extensive refurbishments.Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) has unveiled a new look for two of its London pubs in its Castle estate after extensive refurbishment

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    Five Points Brewing Co owner sells pub

    2014-02-18T20:04:35.017Z

    Pub and brewing entrepreneur Edward Mason has sold a north London pub as he concentrates on his brewing venture

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    Renaissance Pubs enters boutique hotel market

    2014-02-18T10:38:00Z

    South London pub group Renaissance is making a move into rooms by opening its first boutique hotel above The Tommyfield in Kennington this spring

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    Whitbread opens community-led pilot pub

    2014-02-18T07:45:00Z

    Whitbread, the leisure group, has re-opened its Hobb’s Boat pub near Weston-super-Mare as a pilot site under a new umbrella called Whitbread Inns, with a focus more on the local community

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    East Midlands Airport launches new food court

    2014-02-18T07:37:00Z

    East Midlands Airport has opened its brand new food court within the terminal building marking the completion of the second phase of the £12m terminal redevelopment

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    Geronimo wins award for sustainability

    2014-02-18T07:28:00Z

    Geronimo Inns, the Young’s-owned pub group, has been named Sustainable Large Group of the Year at the Sustainable Restaurant Awards

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    Pubcos 'should segment estates by trading type'

    2014-02-18T07:13:41.803Z

    Tenanted pub companies should segment their estate according to trading types, All Our Bars chief executive Paul Wigham has told the inaugural PubOpsClub event

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    Brasserie Bar Co secures £13.5m of new funding

    2014-02-15T19:52:00Z

    Brasserie Bar Co, the owner of the Brasserie Blanc chain and White Brasserie Company, has secured £13.5m of new funding to support the expansion of the group by at least 20 new sites over the next three years

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    Living Room conversions will have Missoula bias

    2014-02-14T16:22:00Z

    Stonegate’s conversions of its Living Rooms sites will have a “bias” towards Missoula, the group’s new US-inspired concept, chief executive Toby Smith has told M&C Report

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    C&B rolls out new format, targets acquisitions

    2014-02-14T16:19:00Z

    Corney & Barrow Bars, the City-based operator, is to rollout an evolved format featuring a “ramped up” food offer and a greater wine focus, and is also targeting acquisitions, managing director Ed Gardner has told M&C Report