Pub Relations

ALH INVESTIGATES GAMING PRACTISES AS SHAREHOLDERS PONDER INVESTMENTS

The controversy over ALH’s gaming room practises continues, but at least one stakeholder has voted with financial results over purported ethical obstacles. Earlier this year anti-pokies campaigner Andrew Wilkie MP unveiled allegations that Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH), majority owned by the Fresh Food People, Woolworths, was systematically targeting big players of its EGMs in […]

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MASSIVE MERIVALE MONTH AS SYDNEY NIGHTLIFE LOOKS TO REVIVAL

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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VICHEALTH FINDS WATER A CLEAR BENEFIT FOR LICENSED VENUES

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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DRUNK GUY NAILS BEER AD

A Californian carpenter has become the unofficial spokesperson for Kirkland Light, producing his own lovingly intoxicated endorsements for the value-priced American beer. Attempting to prove a mainstream US lager can be better and more than sex on the beach (f*ing close to water), Randy Colpek is putting himself out there as the world’s biggest fan of

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BRUNSWICK HOTEL CLOSES ‘INDEFINITELY’ DUE TO ACCIDENTAL FLOODING

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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HURLEYS CELEBRATE NO “X” WITH NEW SA PREMIER MARSHALL

People and pubs across South Australia are celebrating a comfortable win by the Liberal party at the weekend’s State election, with a resounding “no” to Nick Xenophon’s anti-pokies SA Best party. In the aftermath of the Tasmanian election, just two weeks earlier, South Australians voted on Saturday for a new State parliament, dogged by Xenophon’s

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ALH IN DAMAGE CONTROL FOLLOWING WILD ACCUSATIONS

Fairfax has published a damning expose on the alleged workings of Woolworths-backed ALH and its approach to optimising gaming revenue through patron monitoring and inducements. Yesterday’s story in the Sydney Morning Herald alludes to a company-wide system of recording and sharing detailed information on gaming regulars, including gambling habits and conversational prompts, for the purpose

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PUB APOLOGISES OVER ELABORATE ‘NO EFFORT NO ENTRY’ DRESS CODE

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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