An institutional Melbourne pub group is taking on American fast food giant McDonalds over a copyright and trademark infringement of The Corner. Swancom P/L has for years operated the immensely popular live music venues Northcote Social Club and The Corner Hotel, in Northcote and Richmond. In 2014 McDonalds opened a ‘test lab’ for a potential […]
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Back from the very public sell-down of the bulk of its portfolio, Riversdale is looking to its future and further acquisitions, as the group celebrates a milestone in operations. Riversdale is group operator for John Singleton, Geoff Dixon and Mark Carnegie’s $300m Australian Pub Fund, which burst into prominence in 2011 with a string of
Police and emergency services were called to a fire at the Petersham Inn around 1:20am overnight after receiving reports of smoke coming from the building. The pub on Parramatta Road was closed at the time, but Fire & Rescue NSW officers attended and extinguished a small fire inside. Around 40 nearby residents were evacuated from
Merivale has announced a monster Happy Hour throughout June across all its venues – as the City of Sydney convenes the much-awaited Nightlife Advisory Panel. For all of June, the trailblazing Merivale presents Bottoms Up, Sydney, offering 49 per cent off all drinks from 5pm – 7pm, at 37 venues (list below). The initiative is
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Research at venues has confirmed positive results to encouraging more patrons to drink water, including happier staff and no impact on sales. In early 2017, VicHealth partnered with some Victorian licensees for a trial measuring how much free drinking water patrons consumers, and how to increase that amount. In Victoria, like most jurisdictions, licensed venues
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Live music icon the Brunswick Hotel has closed indefinitely, after a freak accident saw a fire hydrant flood the building from above. In the early hours of Thursday morning (22 March), a car struck a fire hydrant outside the popular pub, on the corner of Sydney Road and Weston Street, in Brunswick. The broken hydrant
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A Perth pub is unabashedly spurning the great bedraggled, but issued an apology when a local rag attempted to lampoon its seemingly pretentious dress code. (below) The Northshore Tavern in Hillarys has sported its strict and somewhat specific requirements for patron dress in the bistro for several years. The hotel has recently undergone a refurbishment,
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Just eight months after taking the keys, the tenants of the Bald Faced Stag have been evicted over claims of late rent and unpaid bills. After a stint on the market, Ulladulla Property Services P/L took on the operation late March 2017, headed by general manager Scott Allwyn Mackenzie, and business partner Kristy Clark. The
As NSW ponders whether to loosen laws on dog-friendly areas in pubs, Dan O’Hara’s Collector Hotel at Parramatta is embracing fur-babies with its new weekend Yappy Hour. The Collector is a down-town pub in Sydney’s second CBD, Parramatta, and appropriately caters to hordes of office workers and after-workers throughout the week. Like the Sydney CBD,
Nanny’s grip could be getting tighter for ex-cons, with Queensland set to be the first to begin individual assessment and banning of parolees from pubs and clubs. In a first for Australia, every Queensland convict up for parole will have their life habits assessed, with the aim of lowering rates of reoffending by considering the
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