Anyone ever run a pub?

[Redder Lurtz]

Whereabouts in Lincs? The nice bit up north, or the inbred bit down south?

 

Brigg.

[Hand Shandy]

Ah, the nice bit then.

[Bjornebye]

Bit of an update. Having spent almost a year running the bar we've made the decision to quit and go and work for one of the big breweries, namely Marstons. We've been negotiating for a couple of months and we've just had confirmation that we'll be moving into one of their pubs in Lincolnshire on 29th of this month. Live-in, rent-free, full food menu and lots of "guest" ales to offer as Marstons have been pretty shrewd in recent years in terms of expanding their range.

 

The pub had a full refurb in February so it's mint, but it's been run by someone who thought he could just fling the doors open and count the money. There's lots to do but I'm not worried about the hard work. It's got a recent excellent reputation so we just need to work hard on the details to bring it back to what it was. We've turned our current bar round from a collapsed dive to probably the best bar in Pudsey and we've had a whale of a time doing it. Looking forward to this next project.

Nice one mate best of luck with the new place

[Redder Lurtz]

Nice one mate best of luck with the new place

 

Cheers matey.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Well done mate. I'd love to run a pub but would probably last two months before inevitable liver failure

[the chimp]

Well in Mike. Best of luck mate.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Bit of an update. Having spent almost a year running the bar we've made the decision to quit and go and work for one of the big breweries, namely Marstons. We've been negotiating for a couple of months and we've just had confirmation that we'll be moving into one of their pubs in Lincolnshire on 29th of this month. Live-in, rent-free, full food menu and lots of "guest" ales to offer as Marstons have been pretty shrewd in recent years in terms of expanding their range.

 

The pub had a full refurb in February so it's mint, but it's been run by someone who thought he could just fling the doors open and count the money. There's lots to do but I'm not worried about the hard work. It's got a recent excellent reputation so we just need to work hard on the details to bring it back to what it was. We've turned our current bar round from a collapsed dive to probably the best bar in Pudsey and we've had a whale of a time doing it. Looking forward to this next project. 

 

 

Good stuff mate.  Will be interesting to check back on the bar in Pudsey in a few years and see how it's gone without your stewardship. 

 

Good luck in your next one

[Champ]

A man not afraid of a challenge, clearly.

 

Why did you decide to move on, if you don't mind me asking

[Tom R]

I've never ran a pub I did one shift in one once, back in about 2004. 

At the end of my shift I got a brown envelope with "- £32" on it. 

 

Basically, at the end of the 6 hour shift I'd drank all of the money the lad was gonna give me, plus an additional 32 quid. 

 

About half way through my shift I essentially transitioned from paid staff to paying customer; my natural habitat and default position. 

[magicrat]

Bit of an update. Having spent almost a year running the bar we've made the decision to quit and go and work for one of the big breweries, namely Marstons. We've been negotiating for a couple of months and we've just had confirmation that we'll be moving into one of their pubs in Lincolnshire on 29th of this month. Live-in, rent-free, full food menu and lots of "guest" ales to offer as Marstons have been pretty shrewd in recent years in terms of expanding their range.

 

The pub had a full refurb in February so it's mint, but it's been run by someone who thought he could just fling the doors open and count the money. There's lots to do but I'm not worried about the hard work. It's got a recent excellent reputation so we just need to work hard on the details to bring it back to what it was. We've turned our current bar round from a collapsed dive to probably the best bar in Pudsey and we've had a whale of a time doing it. Looking forward to this next project. 

 

Good luck to you mate. Change to hear someone enthused about their future atm  

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Yeah, good luck Redder's mate. 

[KMD7]

Well in Redders

[Furmedge]

Nice one Lurtzy.

 

TLW discount?

[lifetime fan]

Employ fit barmaids with big tits.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Nice one Lurtzy.

 

TLW discount?

 

 

Employ fit barmaids with big tits.

 

What else is there?

[lifetime fan]

Cover for the pool table?

[stringvest]

My mate runs a pub & his best ever story was about the night some bird stayed back for a lock in with him, after a few they started getting it on with each other & ended up in the pub kitchen shagging next to a massive tray of stovies that his missus had made to serve during the game the next day, anyway this bird is getting carried away & goes 'Get the stovies on my tits.', so naturally he obliges & ends up covering her tits in cold stovies before licking them off again.

 

Stovies must be the least sexy food of all fucking time, I'm sitting pishing myself just writing this.

 

For anyone who doesn't know what stovies are, they're a Scottish delicacy:-

 

 

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/663/sausage-stovies.aspx

 

 

did she put batter on his mars bar?

[stringvest]

Good luck Lurtzy.  Though if you get an itch on your forehead, and it turns into a lump, go and see the doctor straight away before it grows into an ear.  That's what happens in Lincolnshire.  Though Lincoln is lovely.  

[lifetime fan]

did she put batter on his mars bar?

Mate of my brothers pissed in the chippy;

 

Lawrence: Sausage and chips please love.

Bird: You want your sausage battered?

Lawrence: You want your fanny slapped?

[Tony Moanero]

Fucking hell, lifey, this fella ordered a sausage dinner without gravy or curry and he's still your mate?

[lifetime fan]

Fucking hell, lifey, this fella ordered a sausage dinner without gravy or curry and still your mate?

One of my brothers mates!

 

Got to have curry sauce for a battered sausage.

[Redder Lurtz]

A man not afraid of a challenge, clearly.

 

Why did you decide to move on, if you don't mind me asking

 

It's an upward career move. No rent, bigger take, bigger percentage of that take, bigger company with scope to move if we like, better support, full food offering, our own menu, nicer area. Etc. 

[General Dryness]

Good luck Lurtz, hope it all goes well for ye.

[Champ]

It's an upward career move. No rent, bigger take, bigger percentage of that take, bigger company with scope to move if we like, better support, full food offering, our own menu, nicer area. Etc.

 

You sound happy.

 

It takes guts to do what you did. And make it work. Good on yer!

[Redder Lurtz]

Well that was short lived. About 48 hours before handing over a slab of deposit cash to Marstons we pulled out of the deal. They started back-tracking on a load of stuff they'd previously agreed on, such as doing our own food, expanding the kitchen, fixing up the accommodation, which was a shithole, and letting me do a quick beer review (turns out that was going to take three months at least, so we'd be forced to be selling shit beer until then). We started to feel really uncomfortable and so we pulled the plug. After a year of doing our own thing we're not about to be fucked by a large brewery for their own ends.

 

So we're staying at our current place for the foreseeable. We're also looking for a retail unit in the Leeds area though, where we'll replicate what we've done in our first pub. A spot of empire building if you like.