Common Sense Tips on Making your Pub Work

By Nigel Wakefield

this book deals with tips to make your pub work after you have bought it, my previous book the common sense guide to buying a pub, deals with the process up to buying a pub or bistro. these tips deal with taking over and running a pub, many of the tips are things that trainers fail to tell you. most of it is common sense when you have run a licensed business, but if only a few items will save you time or money in both ebooks they are small cost by comparison, time and money are your two vital commodities running any business, especially a pub, bar or restaurant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nigel Wakefield
• Release date: Sep 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301368372

Nigel Wakefield

I am a keen fisherman and have been a diver commercially, owned a number of pubs and catering businesses.I am also the Editor of www.buyingapub.com an information site for the Pub and Restaurant Industry, in addition www.barrel-dregs.com which exposes all the dubious activities by unscrupulous companies with a degree of humour, they are always worth reading, written by a number of professionals under nom de plumes.

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Common Sense Tips on Making your Pub Work

By

Nigel Wakefield CBII

This information is for guidance and to help overcome the many small and large hurdles that very few people ever tell you about, that occur from day to day in the setting up and running a pub, it is not everything but a considerable number. The Common Sense Guide to Buying a Pub deals with preparing to buy, this covers some of the things that you need to know when you take possession. Something to consider, if only a few comments in this ebook save you time or money, the cost of the ebook becomes minimal, time and money are your two most valuable commodities when running a business.

Common Sense Tips on Making a Pub Work

By Nigel Wakefield

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2012 Nigel Wakefield

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General Comment

Firstly you become a key member of the community, like the owner of the village shop, post office etc., this can go to peoples’ heads. If they have never been self employed with initially a lot of available cash and even more fair weather friends, do not buy or give away loads of free drinks except on the opening night.

You are every customers confessor, believe a fraction of what you here and keep well clear of controversy, they say never discuss, politics, sex or religion, it can cost you customers, it is very hard not to do this, but be careful, a chance comment will always be misconstrued.

If you take over a good pub from a good licensee you may well have a hard act to follow, unless he has retired, it is impossible to run the pub the same way as your predecessor, so bring in gentle changes to suit your requirements, if it is a badly run pub implement change as soon as you understand how the place works, but you need to run it to find out the behind the scenes problems.

Chapters

Chapter 1, Accommodation, Accountants, Advertising,

Chapter 2, Avoid

Chapter 3, Banking, Beers Advice, Beer Dispensers, Bookings,

Chapter 4, Business Trading Details

Chapter 5, Cash & Carry, Catering Advice, Cellar Cooling, Central Heating,

Chapter 6, Changeover Day,

Chapter 7, Charities, Chefs, Cleaning Materials, Coaches, Combi Ovens, Core Business, Credit Accounts from Suppliers, Credit Card Machine (PDQ),

Chapter 8, Crockery, Customer Ordering

Chapter 9, Deliveries, Diary, Dishwashers, Drugs

Chapter 10, Electricity, Employment Law, Entertainment Licence, EPOS Tills, Equipment

Chapter 11, Fire Equipment, First Aid, Fire Risk Legislation and Information, Food and Hygiene, Food Processors

Chapter 12, Gas, Glass Washers, Hand Washing, Heat Exchanger, Hot Cupboards

Chapter 13, Ice Machines, Insurance (Property)

Chapter 14, Kitchens, Knives

Chapter 15, Legal and Licensing responsibilities, Locums

Chapter 16, Machines, Machines and Pool Table, Microwaves, Music, PRS and PPL Licences

Chapter 17, Negative Trading

Chapter 18, Operating Schedule

Chapter 19, Personal Licence Holders, Phone Calls, Pipe Cleaning, Policy, Premium Bonds, Premises Supervisor, Price Lists and Statutory Signs, Pricing

Chapter 20, Qualifications

Chapter 21, Regulations, Restaurant Food

Chapter 22, Scams, Signs (Highway, Directional), Smoking, Snacks,