Suicide Pact?

Now this picture I love. So much so I thought I would share it. The chap on the left is responsible for serving the beer, the other, for cooking the food. I guess at some point they decided enough is enough, but somehow they are both still in the land of the living.

Please feel free to add your own caption I think this picture has some mileage.

Maybe it was their take on the new EHO guidelines! Best caption deserves a bottle of wine me thinks!

Successful outlet?

Good to see Marstons holding a price freeze on their beer this year (not the same luck for us with Enterprise Inns and their 3.5% price hike) but bizarrely only offering its new freetrade pricing deal, Advance, to around 600 of its best lessees? The agreement stands alongside the existing lease and allows beer to be bought at freetrade prices in return for an additional payment on top of the rent.

Sounds like a good idea to me but what constitutes a best lesse?

So correct me if I'm wrong, if you are a "best lesse" your set to grow your margin, while the other non best lessees won't?  I wouldn't like to run a Marston's Pub to find out your not in that 600.

Still at least with Enterprise Inns you know where you stand.  Between a rock and a hard place!

The Great British Pie Week

Really looking forward to this next week, plus some Harveys Porter on tap.
Oooh a pie and a pint (spoken in a slight northern accent)

.......To celebrate The Great British Pie Week at The Red Lyon we'll be offering a wide selection of homemade savoury pies, some classic, some contemporary - served with mash, greens & gravy .....


Plus some tempting sweet pies to finish. I quite fancy Pecan Pie.