15-05-13, 09:36 PM
(15-05-13, 07:50 PM)locksmith link Wrote: I would think most pubs are tenanted. That is a private individual buys the lease and is then fixed in to buy the beer off the brewery at any price they choose.
So the landlord of a local pub selling say 10 barrels a week gets one price while a company like Weatherspoons go to the brewery and say we'll take 500 a week, whats your best price?
Nearly all tenanted pubs are leased from the breweries, ie, they are selling their own beer to their own tenants for a set price. If they werent so greedy they could sell it to them for the same price they sell it to anyone else.
I had a MANNS pub for 17 years yet my brother who has a Free house could buy MANNS beer cheaper than I could. I had to pay MANNS the lease for the pub,could only sell their beer (or beer brought through them Fosters, Bulmers etc) and pay extra for the privilege of selling it for them!!
A lot of pubs are now managed, (the landlord gets a set wage instead of the profits), hence a lot of pubs are now shit, the landlord gets a fixed wage no matter if he is busy or not, has a contract for 5 years or so then leaves for the next bloke to try his luck.
Why waste time and money making your pub nice and working hard if youre only gonna get the same money???