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Brewer offers route for staff to MAP future

SCOTLAND’s brightest young hospitality stars are being given the chance to take a ‘MAP year’ to enhance their prospects. Tennent Caledonian Breweries last week launched...

Chardon’s hotel plans take off

Green light for new 125-bedroom property at Edinburgh airport HOTEL operator Maurice Taylor has been given the go-ahead to build a new 125-bedroom property at...

Lower priced wine needn’t mean inferior quality

LIKE so many others around the country, the Wine Guy household is aware of the need to save a few bob. So we have implemented...

Tune into Olympic soundtrack

PUBS can help their customers relive the opening ceremony of London 2012 – by downloading the official soundtrack to their jukebox. Soundnet, the pub entertainment...

Scots urged to fight the banks

Operators in Scotland worried about maintaining payments on business loans have been urged to get in touch with a growing campaign group. Bully Banks was set up by SME owners last year to spearhead complaints against the major banks over their conduct in selling interest-rate swap agreements (IRSAs).

Boutique bubbly brings fizz to Falkirk

FALKIRK FC fans were able to toast the start of the new football season with a personalised club Champagne, thanks to a Grangemouth-based drinks...

New ops chief for Atholl Arms

ALAN Berwick has been appointed director of operations at the Atholl Arms Hotel in Dunkeld. Berwick joins the 17-bedroom hotel from the New Country Hotel...

Chef scores Perthshire hotel move

A FORMER sous chef at Gleneagles has moved to fellow Perthshire hotel Ballathie Country House. Scott Scorer has taken over responsibility for food at the...

Weather dampens beer sales

POOR weather and the effects of the latest Budget tax hike were blamed for a “sharp” fall in beer sales across the UK between...

Ale maker John buys his local

THE man behind Scotland’s first self-styled ‘plough to pint’ ales has moved into the on-trade. John Henderson, who launched the Scottish Borders Brewery in January...

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