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1 week ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
Currently on the menu at the Cadogan Arms in Chelsea, London, the dish takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes to prepare and around 2 hours and 20 minutes to cook plus cooling time. It can be batched prepped and baked to order, with a shelf life of five days chilled and up to one month frozen, baked or unbaked. The dish should be reheated at 180°C until its core temperature reaches 75°C, JKS said.
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1 week ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
Admiral pumps over £880k into three sitesChester-based pubco Admiral Taverns has injected £885,555 into three of its 1,400 wet-led community sites in the past month. Each venue features television’s showing Sky and TNT Sports as well as a regular entertainment schedule, including music nights and charitable fundraisers. First to open was the Saddle, which is part of the pubco’s leased and tenanted estate, in Liverpool’s city centre.
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1 week ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
The latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker showed managed pub groups enjoyed a bright April, with like-for-like sales growth of 9.1%, attributed to warmer weather encouraging consumers into beer gardens and terraces. However, some of the growth came at the expense of restaurants, where sales fell0.9% year-on-year, while bars continued a long run of negative numbers with trading down 4.5%.
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1 week ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
Launched on Amazon Prime on Friday 23 May, episodes one to four of the new series document ex-Top Gear man Jeremy Clarkson’s journey to becoming a publican alongside the daily struggles at his Cotswolds farm. In the opening scenes, filmed last winter, Clarkson can be seen working alone at the Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
According to the trade body, some 14m extra pints could be poured across the on-trade this month thanks to two bank holidays and VE Day compared to a month without. It estimated an additional 1m pints could have been sold in pubs on VE Day alone, thanks in part to the licensing hours extension, which allowed them to stay open until 1am.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
Last week, it was announced Government-backed hospitality Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs) were set to be rolled out across 26 areas in England, including in Norwich, Coventry, Exeter and Liverpool. The new programme sees jobseekers trained with hospitality skills in a working environment to provide them with both work experience and a guaranteed interview with a choice of employers.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
EPR fees came into effect from 1 April this year, shifting the full cost of managing packaging waste from local authorities to producers, with fees based on the type and weight of packaging materials used. Under the new rules, glass packaging sold within pubs is classified as household waste, despite already being recycled under commercial waste arrangements.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
Earlier this week, the Welsh Government launched a consultation on cutting rates for retail shops paying less than £51,000 in business rates, which it estimated could affect some 13,000 businesses, in a bid to help them compete with online retailers. However, the proposals “ignored” the hospitality sector and the severe challenges it faces, UKHospitality Cymru has said.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
The 4.2% citrus pale ale will be available in cask direct from the Keystone-owned brewery for the next two months. It will be on offer at Stonegate Pub Partners sites across the UK and Black Sheep Brewery’s Visitor Centre, which recently re-opened following a £1m investment to expand production capabilities. Velo was first brewed in 2014 to celebrate the Tour de France passing by the brewery’s gates.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningadvertiser.co.uk | Rebecca Weller
The Europe’s Best Employer report is an annual record of the top 1,000 employers in Europe, released by the Financial Times with information from data platform Statista. The criteria for companies to be considered includes having generated revenue of at least €10m in 2023, being independent and being headquartered in Europe. Following the application phase, Statista then conducted independent company evaluations. JDW was ranked at 941 with a score of 74.10.
