Tuesday
Propelinfonews.com report that Kent Brewer Shepheard Neame have been awarded a Royal Warrant by The Prince of Wales for supply Grants Morella Cherry Brandy for more than five years.
Propelinfonews.com: Chef & Brewer launches menu that includes guest-influenced choices: Chef & Brewer, Spirit Pub Compmany’s 130 strong country pub brand, has launched its autumn menu featuring dishes that were “wished” for by the brand’s Facebook fans. The menu includes a number of new dishes that were voted for as part of its Facebook Wish for a Dish competition.
Propelinfonews.com PizzaExpress review without irony becomes internet sensation: A review of a PizzaExpress restaurant in Peterborough, published in a weekly newspaper, has become an unlikely internet sensation. Journalism student Holly Aston, 17, wrote the review for the Peterborough Telegraph after visiting the PizzaExpress branch in the city’s Cathedral Square. It praised the food’s “real sense of freshness” while noting that there “wasn’t an awful lot of cheese” on the pizza and that the garlic in the garlic bread was “slightly lacking”. After initially attracting some mocking comments on Twitter, the piece went viral with 66,000 page views in a few hours and Aston has now been offered a day’s work experience on a national newspaper.
Wednesday
Sterling Stock Auditors: Household Leisure Spending up 11% year on year. For the full article click here
Greene King confirms that it has made a £700m for Spirit Pub. Co.
Propelinfonews.com: Dagenham & Barking local authority adopts powers to protect pubs: Powers to try and stem the tide of the borough’s pubs being sold off or left to ruin have been agreed by councillors in Barking and Dagenham in East London.
Thursday
Morning Advertiser
Three new pubs awarded Michelin star
By Ellie Bothwell, 25-Sep-2014
Three new pubs have gained a Michelin star in the latest edition of the Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland, which hails the “enormous richness and variety of the UK’s restaurant scene”.
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Pub-Food/Three-new-pubs-awarded-Michelin-star
Propelinfonews.com: Bar operator double up in Lincoln: Bar operator Jez Nash, who operates the Strait and Narrow on The Strait in Lincoln, will open Second nature on Mint Street in the city, in the former Scy nightclub venue.
Propelinfonews.com Cask Matters website launched to provide online resource: The cask ale industry has launched a website, Cask Matters, providing resources for licensees on how to look after and sell cask ale successfully. It offers case studies, help with training and information for both experienced and new-to-cask licensees, and is designed to be useful for all those working in the cask ale sector.
Friday
Operators say Tax Equality Day boosted sales
By James Wallin, 26-Sep-2014
The second Tax Equality Day saw sales rise as much as 11% according to some of the operators taking part.
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/General-News/Operators-say-Tax-Equality-Day-boosted-sales