Spirit Pub Company has issued its trading update covering the fourth quarter of the current financial year, reporting that full year results are expected to be ahead of market expectations, with Mike Tye, Chief Executive, commenting: “We are pleased with our strong performance in the quarter, particularly when compared to the good summer weather last year. Both the Managed … [Read more...]
White Brasserie Company opens fourth pub, The British Queen
Brasserie Bar Co, which also owns Brasserie Blanc, is set to open its fourth pub, The British Queen, in Orpington in early September. The British Queen will open as part of the White Brasserie Company’s plan to roll out 20 pubs over the next three years, with The Sun Inn in Chobham due to open towards the end of the year. Designed by PNW, The British Queen, which has been … [Read more...]
Guest and staff feedback a major opportunity for hospitality
Customer and employee engagement are both vital components of strategy for companies in the eating and drinking-out market, but few operators are consciously linking the two together, new research by CGA Peach for customer experience specialists InMoment (formerly Empathica) reveals. Customer Engagement Survey 2014 The survey, based on a poll of nearly 100 senior … [Read more...]
BrewDog to end ‘lager lout’ culture with This. Is. Lager. craft beer
“For years, global breweries have spent millions convincing the British public that lager is a beer style best served as fizzy, tasteless liquid cardboard propped up by snappy straplines, glamorous advertising or counterfeit stories of foreign provenance. We hope to perpetuate a movement of craft breweries blazing a new trail for lager, proving it’s a misunderstood, neglected … [Read more...]
Help Adnams to hop to it!
Adnams has launched a county-wide appeal for donations of wild and garden hops and is urging beer lovers to report sightings of them growing to help create its new Wild Hop beer, due to be launched this autumn. Freshly picked, not dried The recipe for the new beer - which is set to be an amber pale ale - requires hops that are freshly picked and that have skipped the … [Read more...]