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Anyone ever run a pub?


Redder Lurtz
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Good on you for sticking to your guns mate. They'll find some other mugs to scrape profit from shite.

Exactly. We realised that once we'd moved our furniture in and paid our deposit we were fucked. The pub is currently taking £1200 a week and that wasn't going to change for months given the goalposts the brewery had moved. We had to move in there and make an immediate impact but bureaucracy was going to prevent that. Some other mug can eak out a living from that shite and it's not going to be us.

 

Living-in was quite important to us but what we have now is a cracking bar converted from a retail unit so the plan is to do it again at least once, hopefully twice over the next year.  

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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. 

 

Good on yer. If it dont feel right, then it usually turns out right not to do it.

 

Nothing worse than going ahead with something then finding you've blown or will blow a shitload of money trying to make it work.

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Sorted our second pub. We take over Wednesday next week. Keeping our other place too so we're going to be very busy. There's a sign saying "Sunday Carvery" in this picture but we're not doing food yet. It's having a massive refurb in the Spring and we'll probably start doing some food then. For now we're introducing a couple of real ale taps as it's just selling Fosters and other similar shite at the moment. Looking forward to making a difference to this place; it's a big pub with fuckloads of potential.

 

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Sorted our second pub. We take over Wednesday next week. Keeping our other place too so we're going to be very busy. There's a sign saying "Sunday Carvery" in this picture but we're not doing food yet. It's having a massive refurb in the Spring and we'll probably start doing some food then. For now we're introducing a couple of real ale taps as it's just selling Fosters and other similar shite at the moment. Looking forward to making a difference to this place; it's a big pub with fuckloads of potential.

 

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So they finally sold up because of all the shootings. Hope you have better luck.

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Fucking shithole. I saw a man shot with a Nerf gun in there once, took the licence away. Yorkshire Ripper use to drink there, him and Michael Parkinson. Strange friendship that, who would go drinking with Parkinson?

 

Looks like a nice pub mate.

 

Thankfully we'll no longer have to deal with Jimmy Savile drinking in there.

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