Monthly Archives: February 2020

For many years, the UK was seen as having a heavy drinking culture where it was common to see young people going out in the evenings and binge drinking. In fact, the local pub has always been seen as the social focus for many people, going for drinks after work and at weekends to see friends.

In the past few years, however, there has been a growing move away from alcohol by young people, who have decided to follow a teetotal lifestyle.

With this in mind, here are some of the questions you may need to ask as a business owner, and how you can try to keep your business profitable in the future.

Pubs used to be watering holes where you could enjoy a decent pint in peace or with company. They’d be filled in the afternoon by day-time drinkers and employees on never-ending lunch breaks and then, in the evenings, they’d be packed out again with the after-work crowd.

But those days are gone. Over the last few decades, there’s been a gradual cultural shift. Pubs still remain hubs for meeting and socialising but it appears that increasingly more of their customers are losing their appetites for booze.

While last year saw the number of pubs rise for the first time in a long time, all pubs need to adapt to make those positive improvements to numbers in the sector permanent. But how?

Commercial fridges and freezers can seem like scary, complicated contraptions and it can be difficult for many people to get their heads around them.

Luckily, we’re here for when things go wrong. In this case, if your commercial refrigerator can’t keep its cool, we’ve got you covered – with a list of what you need to check before calling in the experts.

Here we cover areas including power, doors, gauges, position, correct use, cleaning and maintenance and location to determine whether any issue is likely due to user error or actual mechanical fault.

Bottle coolers do what they say on the tin. They keep your cans and bottles cool and your customers happy.

The most common variety are those which sit behind your bar. Well-lit with glass doors, they showcase your bottled beer, soft drink and mixer selections, in an eye-catching display which makes it that bit easier for your peak-time customers, under pressure to choose, to point straight at what they want.

Drinks coolers are a familiar feature of any pub or bar.

But, what is the real difference between a bar’s bottle cooler and one you might get at home? Could you save a buck by buying a mini fridge for your pub? Or could you get the luxury treatment by bringing a commercial cooler home?