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 is trying to run the business down for some reason. It's working!
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Well someone's lying.
From personal experience of similar situations I think I know who it might be.
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.
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.
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