Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

CALLIGEROS GROUP: TUNING THE TALENT

Posted on July 23rd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Australia’s prioritisation of living standards and ‘a fair go’ have led to us having amongst the highest labour costs for business in the world, largely due to Australia having the highest minimum wage in the world, at roughly US$18.10 per

HARVEST RAMPS UP INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Posted on July 21st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Hospitality investment entity and operator Harvest has unveiled its “evolution” from Hotels to Hospitality, plus a new investment strategy in a burgeoning asset class. Many operators and investors see hospitality assets as combining the stability of resilient revenue with the

HEART OF COLLIE SELLS TO INTERSTATE NEWCOMER

Posted on July 21st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Popular destination of central western NSW, the Collie Hotel, has sold to a Melbourne-based new entrant to the industry. Established circa 1862 as the Marthaguy Hotel – a simple, roadside half-way house for travellers – the pub morphed into the

PUBS’ DILEMMA AS RBA CONFRONTS COST OF LIVING

Posted on July 18th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

The Reserve Bank has recommended an end to surcharges on EFTPOS payments and cards as part of its investigation into merchant fees, claiming businesses will be better off and Australians will potentially save billions each year. Payment surcharge laws began

MAITLAND LOOKS TO LEAVE PARADISE

Posted on July 18th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Veteran hotelier Greg Maitland has listed his large-format Paradise Hotel in suburban Adelaide, offering potential in a robust hospitality complex. The hotel is located on a highly strategic 8,500sqm lot on Lower North East Road, in Paradise, and is equipped

UNIVERSAL SWAPS NEWTOWN FOR LORD BOB

Posted on July 16th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Universal Hotels has exchanged its thumping Newtown Hotel for the iconic Lord Roberts in Darlinghurst, in a deal valued at around $20 million. The Newtown Hotel resides on a high exposure 700+sqm corner of the bustling King Street retail and

PUBLIC’S PADDO PUB SOLD

Posted on July 16th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Another of the distressed Public Hospitality portfolio has sold, seeing Paddington’s long-standing ‘Three Weeds’ going to an unnamed “private investment syndicate”. The former Rose, Shamrock and Thistle, more commonly known as Three Weeds, is one of the precinct’s historic pubs,

O’HARAS ON TRACK AT PARRAMATTA

Posted on July 14th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

The O’Hara Group has expanded its presence in Parramatta, quietly opening an all-new brownfield pub in the heart of the CBD. Station Hotel is a all-new, multi-level watering hole on Church St, opposite Westfield, for up to 450 patrons. It

BOUNCING BACK WITH SMALL BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING

Posted on July 14th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

The Albany Hotel is one of potentially many pubs that is in business today after legally wiping most of its debt, courtesy of Australia’s new-ish Small Business Restructuring (SBR) laws. Turning 60, Neville Walton went through with a long-held dream

TOWN HALL HOTEL BALMAIN SELLS AT AUCTION

Posted on July 11th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Balmain’s beleaguered Town Hall Hotel is back, after selling this week to a ‘restitutional’ investor as the Public Hospitality portfolio flounders. The Town Hall Hotel was built in 1888 on a corner of arterial Darling Street, opposite the suburb’s actual