Diageo’s WORLD CLASS bartender competition is on for 2017, and calling Australian bartenders to carry on the world class competition. Launched in 2009, this is the 9th year for the prestigious competition, which pits the best bartenders from around the world against each other in a series of innovative and challenging exercises. Each national winner […]
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In what could be record short time on the market, Dean Haritos has signed over the deeds to his booming Verandah Hotel to an unnamed “well-known Sydney hotelier”. The price was reported to be “comfortably in excess” of the $9 million price expectation suggested at the campaign launch – just last week. Haritos manages numerous
Liquor & Gaming NSW has sent a clear message with its new ‘risk-based’ licensing scheme – be good, or potentially pay 4,000% more for a hotel licence. The annual liquor licence fee scheme was reviewed last year by the Hon. Ian Callinan AC QC, who concluded it was an “appropriate measure to encourage venues to
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The rules around in-venue poker tournaments in Queensland have changed, and pubs should be wary of abiding by OLGR’s revised conditions. Poker tournaments have been operating in Queensland for over a decade under a ‘freeroll’ model that prevented operators from charging an entry fee to players. In 2016 tournament provider Full House Group (FHG), operator
The new and evolved Sydney Beer Week will be back for 2017, and organisers are calling for venues to board the hop train and be part of the heady experience. Formerly the Sydney Craft Beer Week, the craft tag has been left by the wayside as Sydney Beer Week moves to be more inclusive and
A new pub group has re-launched Kings Cross’ famous Sugarmill – repositioning it to suit its increasingly gentrified locale as the Potts Point Hotel. Sydney’s original late-night entertainment zone has been decimated by the crowd-killing effects of the controversial ‘lockout’ laws. Venues that used to trade until dawn or even 24/7 are closing far earlier,
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One of the outback’s famous curiosity pubs – just 17 hours north of Adelaide – has hit the market, with an asking price of $1.2 million. The Mungerannie Hotel is the stuff of legends, comprising a pub, dining room, accommodation, camp amenities and campground, a large manager’s home and workshop, on 11.2 hectares littered with
Recent findings by the Turnbull government’s Energy Committee show the cost of electricity has more than doubled for most businesses since 2007. As the Liberal and Labor parties debate the merits of reviving coal as a short-term solution versus investing in renewables, the current edition of PubTIC magazine explores the state of power. (Extract –
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As Marly bar is poised expectantly on the market, Riversdale has sold another off-market, with Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Management Group snatching Mitch’s first love, Glebe’s The Toxteth. Australian Pub Fund (APF) was formed by investors and business celebrities John Singleton, Geoff Dixon and Mark Carnegie with a $300m kitty looking to find returns in
Another Sydney hotelier has bought big in Brisbane, with Joe Irvin picking up the “trophy asset” Homestead Tavern for $15.6 million. The ongoing shortage of opportunities in Sydney and Melbourne is driving more publicans up the coast, finding value in the similarly booming yet comparatively well-priced south-east Queensland market. Paul Irvin Hotels, led by successor
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