Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

PUB GRUB ON A BUDGET: AUSSIES RAISE A GLASS BUT NOT SPENDING

Posted on October 14th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

An Antenna survey conducted in June this year for Tyro’s Eat Pay Love Report showed that while the cost of living has skyrocketed, Australians still love visiting their local pubs. The survey questioned over 1,000 Australians on their preferences for

OPERA HOUSE’S VENUES OUT TO TENDER

Posted on October 11th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

The world-famous Sydney Opera House has begun a tender process looking for leading operators to manage its popular harbourside venues, currently known as Opera Bar and House Canteen. It is being billed as a “once-in-a-decade opportunity” to reimagine the venues

EULO QUEEN LEGEND FOR SALE IN OPAL COUNTRY

Posted on October 11th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

The fabled Eulo Queen Hotel, with its saucy history of a serial widow with an obsession for opals, is for sale as cornerstone of a broader business in the historic outback town. Eulo was named as a settlement on the

THE BENDI’S BACK

Posted on October 11th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

In March Melbourne’s iconic music venue the Bendigo Hotel, aka ‘The Bendi’, was forced to close after 14 years championing the punk, rock and metal live music scene. Now, just six months later, it’s back. The Bendi has found a

GOVT DRIVING BOOM IN TOURISM ECONOMY

Posted on October 9th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

The NSW government has massively ramped up its expectations for the state’s ‘visitor’ economy, ushering millions more airline seats, thousands of hotel rooms and a focus on experience-led tourism. This review of the NSW Visitor Economy Strategy will further cement

COLLIE HOTEL ON OFFER

Posted on October 9th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

The one and only Collie Hotel is being sold by owner-operators, offering a big, booming regional watering hole with blue sky and no competition. Occupying a generous 4,295sqm site on the edge of the busy Oxley Highway through town, the

LAUNDY LETS LOOSE BEN’S THE MONA

Posted on October 4th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

Laundy Hotels’ icon of the northern beaches officially begins trade today as The Mona, after a grand reopening, major overhaul, and addition of fellow peninsula legend Ben. A staple of the precinct for nearly a century, the storied Mona Vale

ARMADA OFFERING PARKSIDE GREENFIELD

Posted on October 4th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

Hospitality developer Armada Hotels & Leisure is offering an operations partnership in its ready-to-build greenfield site the Parkside Tavern in the burgeoning Territory. Set to be located at the arterial junction of Bloodwood Street and Tuckaroo Boulevard, on the outskirts

ALH TO HAVE THE CAV

Posted on October 2nd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

Endeavour Group and ALH have stepped up the footprint in the Territory, securing approval to buy Mick Burns’ legendary The Cav. The Cavenagh Hotel is one of the Northern Territory’s oldest pubs, first licensed in 1932 as the Don Hotel,

NEWCOMER PICKS UP GARRY OWEN

Posted on October 2nd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney

Garry Owen is looking to a new future in Rozelle, as the century-old inner west pub changes hands again. Occupying a 358sqm lot on a corner of bustling Darling Street, the two-storey Garry Owen was built in 1920. Holding a