Landlord's Remarks Leave a Bitter Taste ; the Boss of Punch Taverns Says Pubs Could Do Better. Publicans Say He Is Greedy. Is This the End of the Beer Tie?
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TRACY Connolly, landlady of the Ampleforth Arms in Risinghurst, Oxford, is pretty cross. She works seven days a week in her pub, organising darts competitions, pool tournaments, cribbage nights and roast lunches at weekends. Without her husband's job as a painter and decorator and her mother helping to look after their four children aged from 19 years to 14 weeks, she wouldn't be able to make a living at all.
Yet last week she read that her landlord, Giles Thorley, chief executive of Punch Taverns, believes that publicans are to blame for their situation, by not being 'better operators'.See the full content of this document
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Landlord's Remarks Leave a Bitter Taste ; the Boss of Punch Taverns Says Pubs Could Do Better. Publicans Say He Is Greedy. Is This the End of the Beer Tie?
Speaking as Punch released annual figures showing that falls in the value of its 7,700-strong pub estate pushed it Pounds 406 million into the red, Thorley added: 'The thing that makes a difference to a pub is having a great host.
'I have been to pubs that ...See the full content of this document
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