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Originally Posted by
Mobyduck
I wonder why so many of their pubs are looking for managers/tenents?
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Two of their flagship pubs in Rochdale Alpine Gasthof and Star Inn are still both closed, the Alpine for several months now.
Rumour is that Humphrey :muppet: is trying to run the business down for some reason. It's working!
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Originally Posted by
oldboots
Black Sheep has a new brewer and the beer is much better than it has been for a while. The brewery even turned a profit this year.
Yup. Black Sheep gets the thumbs-up from me. Not the most exciting beer, but you can do a hell of a lot worse. I'd certainly take it over London's usual staples such as Pride, Broadside, Bombardier, Mr Chubbs/Good Old Boy, Doom...
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Originally Posted by
Tris39
Yup. Black Sheep gets the thumbs-up from me. Not the most exciting beer, but you can do a hell of a lot worse. I'd certainly take it over London's usual staples such as Pride, Broadside, Bombardier, Mr Chubbs/Good Old Boy, Doom...
Wouldn't knowingly drink any of em, unless there was no other choice. :D
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New River buys more Star Pubs
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Well someone's lying.
From personal experience of similar situations I think I know who it might be.
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Originally Posted by
oldboots
Well someone's lying.
From personal experience of similar situations I think I know who it might be.
It must be quite easy to accidentally run a pub into the ground - not everyone realises the work that has to be put in and how hard it can be to provide genuinely excellent customer service. Even easier, therefore, to ruin a pub deliberately.
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Originally Posted by
sheffield hatter
It must be quite easy to accidentally run a pub into the ground - not everyone realises the work that has to be put in and how hard it can be to provide genuinely excellent customer service. Even easier, therefore, to ruin a pub deliberately.
I'll never forget what the manager of the Wolverhampton Great Western said to me way back in the 1990s. "you can never take your eye off the ball as if you do the punters will go away and you'll have an empty pub". This is probably even more true today than back then. I've never run a pub and have never really had any desire to do so but I've always had the impression that it's 99% hard graft with 1% fun if you're lucky. If you're working for a large pub co it's probably even worse and if it's JDW you also have to put up with disseminating the idiotic political propaganda from the clown who is the chairman of the company.
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Originally Posted by
Aqualung
I've never run a pub and have never really had any desire to do so but I've always had the impression that it's 99% hard graft with 1% fun if you're lucky.
I wasted six weeks of my life jointly trying to make a go of this place,after dealing with the local mafia and various caravan dwelling types as well as the corrupt holding company, I packed it in disillusioned,knackered,and ripped off for a grand, I admit to going into it with rose tinted glasses but came out of it slightly better than one of my two business partners (female) who left with a broken jaw.
The place is now converted to offices, there were three other pubs in the immediate area, now all gone.