Amid the increasing need for smart decision-making in a competitive marketplace, hoteliers are turning to bespoke solutions to better guide intelligent solutions. The ATO offers benchmarking tools and advice for small business. As labour-based businesses, it specifies the key benchmarking ratio for Pubs, Taverns and Bars is: cost of sales – turnover. Most often the […]
Lion has hit back at the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) over the uneducated lampoon of its ‘Beer the Beautiful Truth’ campaign. Initiating the campaign in response to Galaxy Research findings that most Australian (87 per cent) don’t know what goes into beer, and most (73 per cent) would like to know more,
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Feros Group is breathing new life into The Shire, with no less than three new venues about to open, plus work just begun on an all-new pub. Already specialising in booming food establishments such as the award-winning Terrey Hills Tavern, Chris Feros is launching top-notch nosh houses specifically intended to be on par with “the
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Dynamic Iris Capital has traded another pub with the booming Gallagher Hotel Group, as leaseholds continue to come to the fore in the hot hotel market. Representing the fifth asset swap for the two groups, Iris has sold Gallagher the 888 Hotel in Chinatown for around $7.5 million. As each pursues specific operational goals, both
A Brisbane pub has found itself answering to a powerful community group, after neighbours voiced their complaints – but not to the pub. The Boundary Hotel, a classic local’s pub in Brisbane’s urban and well patronised West End, is the passion of owners Adam and Brooke Hill, who invested their life savings to purchase the
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A Berrimah pub and staff member are recovering after a cunning bandit executed a well-planned robbery, wielding a sword. Last Sunday night the manager of the Hidden Valley Tavern was confronted in the office by a masked man holding a 50 centimetre sword, who demanded money and threatened to go to the terrified woman’s home.
Lantern Hotel Group has divested one of its best city assets to a colourful A-lister of Sydney hospitality. In October the ASX-listed Lantern (LTN) announced a portfolio reshuffle, selling three pubs as part of its “strategic review of the business”, including the coveted Dolphin Hotel at Surry Hills. “In terms of the Dolphin Hotel, we
A week after quiet-spoken hotel doyen Bruce Solomon seized the opportunity to slap some perspective on Sydney’s lockout laws debate, all is quiet on the nanny-state front. Solomon rose to accept his inauguration into the NSW Australian Hotels Association Hall of Fame, at the Association’s annual Awards for Excellence last Tuesday. Speaking to a crowd
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Prominent hotelier and AHA SA President, Peter Hurley, has slammed the “untaxed, totally unregulated” Airbnb, and complicit parties including the former Lord Mayor. Speaking at an AHA Christmas lunch, in front of SA Premier Jay Weatherill and treasurer Tom Koutsantonis, Hurley spoke of the realities of the trendy ‘disruptive’ technologies, such as the self-proclaimed “world’s
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The Victorian regulator for Gambling and Liquor regulation has issued harm-reduction measures and a reminder for licensees. The Victorian Commission for Gambling & Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) dispatched renewal notices for liquor licences for 2016 on 27 November. Venues have until 31 December to complete and pay for renewals. Amid the approaching silly season, the regulator
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