Sky showing its cuddly side?
PERHAPS it was deliberately timed for the end of the pantomime season.
Sky, for so long a thorn in the side of the trade, made...
Tax hopes set to be dashed?
TIM Martin, the ebullient boss of pub giant JD Wetherspoon, never disappoints a trade journalist in need of a quote.
Martin was in typically outspoken...
The Wine Guy with Guy Chatfield
Pretentious tasting notes are no help to anyone when it comes to recommending wine, writes Guy Chatfield
I THINK the best one I ever heard...
Indie uncertainty stifling investment
Question marks over post-referendum tax landscape hampering Scottish hospitality industry, writes hotel boss Maurice Taylor
SCOTLAND’S hospitality sector is being stifled by the degree of...
Zero-hours can provide flexibility
Both sides of the debate on contracts can have extreme views but the reality is more nuanced, writes lawyer John Grant
THE issue of zero-hours...
Funding is essential to health of hospitality
Banks had their fingers burned by the hospitality industry during the credit crunch, but it’s time to start lending again, writes Jamie Savage of DM Hall
Taxman targets trade to bridge the VAT gap
News that HMRC is out to retrieve unpaid VAT in the hospitality industry is a warning for operators to ensure their tax affairs are...
Football is still a winner for pubs
WARNINGS of financial Armageddon for sports-dependent pubs have regularly been aired since Rangers Football Club slid into financial oblivion.
Now that the dust has finally...
Get personal with social media sites
Websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be effective marketing tools for hospitality businesses, writes Paul Smith of Barclays
AS a relationship business, the hospitality...
OnlyDrams – People may not age well, but whisky certainly does
Whisky science isn't so far from Jurassic Park: ‘Your distillers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should’
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