i was fired last year, the day after we completed on our first house.
I tried to stay positive and spin it that it would mean I had time to "get the new place sorted"
It actually meant we didn't eat much other than rice for s couple of months.
But, it meant I got out of restaurants and back in to pubs, and realised how much I had missed having time to have a social life. But the pub industry is surprisingly buoyant despite what you hear, so in not worried really.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:04, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I've noticed that, around here restraunts are coming and going quickly.
but gastropubs seem to be busy all the time.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:11, Reply)

Gastropubs should make their sodding minds up.
Pub, or restaurant please, not an overpriced pub.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:18, Reply)

It's all the people being made redundant drowning their sorrows

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:11, Reply)

So many pubs have closed down in my neighbourhood.
Only 4 left, out of loads 15 years ago. I suppose it's easy to blame the smoking ban, but I'm sure that's contributed a tad.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:12, Reply)

It has a bit, but
Supermarkets selling cheap beer and greedy brewing companies have a lot more to do with it IMO.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:24, Reply)

If I just wanted to get pissed, I'd stay at home with a bottle.
I go to the pub to meet people, socialise etc, as I'm sure most do. Beer has just gone up 20p in my local. That's the sodding landlord, not the breweries.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:29, Reply)

Most pubs and pub companies are cursed by shit managment.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:29, Reply)

It's a free house,
and he's a greedy twat.
£1.60 for a glass of soda and blackcurrant ffs.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:34, Reply)

you'd be surprised how much more beer costs when youre a free housr,
And one way to counteract loss leading products like premium lager is to bump up soft drink prices. Admittedly I wouldn't charge for soda, but do you know how much a box of coke syrup costs compared to how much you pay?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:43, Reply)

When I worked at a cinema they paid a flat rate a year.
Use as much syrup as they wanted.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:44, Reply)

yup,
Same in places like bowling alleys. It costs literally pence a glass.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:45, Reply)

Indeed
the sort of management that have been known to expect their staff to sell up to 10% more beer than is actually in the barrel.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:35, Reply)

really?
that's proper retarded. Even the short pipe run in our old bar would cost you a couple of pints per barrel change, you can't even sell as many as there are in a barrel...
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:39, Reply)

My local is a cask place, with about 12 different brews at any one time,
and they lose a few pints per barrel from "tasters", real ale buffs wanting a crafty sample.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:43, Reply)

and ullage,
And line cleans, and topping off, and spillage and so on.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:44, Reply)

also,
Do the maths on pints per barrel. Average 50ml sample, 568 ml in a uk pint.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:48, Reply)

Struggling to find a link for it
but unless my memory is playing tricks was one of the big pubcos up north (probably taken over by someone else now) a few years ago.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:50, Reply)

probably.
Basically, fullers, MandB, and Greene king pretty much own the lot.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:52, Reply)

And that at least half of pubs in the UK in the year 2012
haven't worked out how to keep a toilet clean.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:41, Reply)

There used to ba a little boozer in the middle of nowhere, near where |I lived,
"The Moorcock",massively old dear ran it, the bar was her converted lounge, and she sold only bottles. Took about 10 minutes of her shuffling around in her slippers to get served. Anyway, only women were permitted to use her private toilet, guys had to go outside and piss up the wall.
Top place.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:48, Reply)

+ something about roast potatoes

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:48, Reply)

I assume you're talking roast spuds, from the freezer?
Don't get me started on frozen Yorkshire puds...
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:54, Reply)

Ongoing debate about the lack of good roast potatoes in pubs

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:56, Reply)

it's the subject that keeps on giving

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:02, Reply)

^^ this ^^

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:05, Reply)

Frozen chips too, you bloody post deleter you.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:58, Reply)

?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:59, Reply)

Tries replying to your above post, and was told it was thread deleted. It's not now, must be B3TA gremlins.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:02, Reply)

No Same post twice I did delete one of them

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:05, Reply)

Ah, ok.
B3TA is off the hook then.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:07, Reply)

the problem i find is everyone thinks they know how to run a pub,
And that all pubs are effected in the same way by changes in social culture, pricing, legislation etc, when really each one is an individual business, managed properly can do very well. The 10 pubs I'm linked with are showing huge growth at the moment, as are many pub companies.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:41, Reply)

I'm showing huge growth
in my pants!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:18, Reply)

Fuck's sake
I don't know why I bother
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:58, Reply)