Max Hitchins, aka Melbourne Cup Max, veteran hotelier, chairman of the 15 Club and author of ‘How To Pick The Winner Of The 2023 Melbourne Cup’, has penned some prose on this year’s big race, set to run at the usual time on the first Tuesday in November. Max is the son of a bookmaker in […]
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Heading into our fifth year of operation, we at PubTIC are once again considering how we can continue to best serve our favourite industry with news and information on Australian pubs. We would be grateful for any feedback or suggestions, which we will consider confidentially, and try to stay Australia’s leading trade media for pub
By CLANCY OVERELL | Editor – Betoota Advocate The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has announced today that banks could come under fire for letting pissed morons use PayWave when paying for 13 jagerbombs. The Royal Commission into banks has already heard horror stories about predatory lending and dodgy financial
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OPINION Roaming writer, Bo Trokker A bunch of us were partying at Home on the weekend, but the fun stopped early when another ambulance arrived. Worse still – we didn’t have time to get anywhere else ‘cause of the lockouts. The music was fully sick and there was plenty of action, but someone called
Inspired by descendants destined to suffer the jetsam of an escalating world climate of human legacy and politics, the Hospitality Doctor, Max Hitchins, has teamed up with ophthalmologist Dr Frank Cheok for a social media war on war. Industry veteran, former publican, honoured member of the 15 Club and the world’s foremost expert on the
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I usually let shoot-from-the-hip criticism of our industry through to the keeper, thinking if someone hasn’t invested the time to get to know why and what we do properly, then just return the ignorance serve. We’ve all got better things to do than shout at the sky when keyboard warriors pull at the threads of
RESPONSE TO SPARVELL’S BEER PRICE RANT – BY ANDREW BENNETT, PUBLICAN Read More »
Like many people, I love a good stat. Whether it be something obscure such as Bill “Fire Down Below” Barkins’ insurmountable record of 6.24 cup adjustments per innings playing Major League Baseball, or comparatively innocuous ABS data showing Aussies are drinking less than they have for fifty years. The problem arises when the topic of
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One of Australia’s First Families of Wine has rightfully called foul over the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code’s rejection of its ad: Life – Drink it in. The ABAC deemed the ad to be inappropriate, for reasons yet to be explained. Mitchell Taylor – third-generation managing director of Taylors Wines, multi-award-winning legend of the Clare Valley
Shortly following the posting by a major Sydney newspaper of the incident involving a glassing at a hotel in Camden, a dossier of articles around street violence was rolled out with surprisingly little weight given to its shocking contents. The story on the glassing that took place in the Camden Hotel was almost a verbatim
Unlike many of the bureaucrats that make the rules, small business operators have typically known the life associated with entry-level positions in their establishments and aside from enjoying a better understanding of living on base wages actually empathise with many of the workers they are so often accused of exploiting. This week’s breakthrough agreement between
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