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Lord Evan Elpuss
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: Protect Your Local |
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If you enjoy a pint in a traditional local pub. Here's a petition you might want to sign: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ProtectThePub/
It's worth signing before your traditional local get's turned into a restaurant or, even worse, ceases to exist altogether.
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gfloyd
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Save your local pub? Drink more! If you become an alcoholic you can guarantee its future survival 
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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How about getting your mate to sign? I'm sure he would be in full agreement with it
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SantaFefan
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| who Lonegroover?? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Actually I had Evans in mind. Still I'm sure the author of the petition (no it's not me) would welcome all support from wherever it came.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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There are 5 pubs in the village where I live, all are thriving  |
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John W
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| We've got four pubs, but they already are restaurants. Two are freehouses with selection of real ales so I'm ok with them. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| John W wrote: | | We've got four pubs, but they already are restaurants. Two are freehouses with selection of real ales so I'm ok with them. |
Perhaps I didn't word the leading message too well. I am not anti-restaurant, I enjoy eating out from time to time as much as anyone, but I wouldn't want to see every pub turned into a restaurant, I don't always want to eat a three-course meal with my beer. Sometimes I just want a pint or two, with nothing more than a packet of pork scratchings or similar snacks, I don't believe I should be made to feel out of place for not wanting a full meal. Of course, turning a pub into a Harvester/Beefeater (others are available - at cost of someone's local) is only one of the things they do to pubs, another is the 'Themed pub', often designed to attract those who have just come of legal drinking age, usually (indirectly) to the exclusion of older generation drinkers. As I previously said, even worse than that is to de-licence a pub altogether & sell it off to become private housing of one sort or another. Several pubs in the district where I live have been lost in this way in the last ten years or so, having been turned into flats.
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Ella Sailyour
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There are many more pubs offering good food that aren't format franchises or "themed pubs". thank god.
But....... pubs are businesses and run by people (or organisations) who have to make a profit in order to survive and grow. If a business doesn't serve a market it doesn't raise a turnover, doesn't make a profit and doesn't survive.
The fact is that a pub that tries to exist on the sale of alcoholic drinks alone can't possibly survive in today's economic climate; the %GP isn't high enough. The %GP on food sales can be in excess of 75-80%, so any publican/landlord/manager is mad not to embrace this. How else do they pay the bills?
And if that's what the local customers respond to then it's good business sense to supply that need.
Both myself and Mr. S go to our local pubs for good drink and good food - sometimes only a drink and sometimes a bite to eat. If the pub fails to offer what we want we'll go elsewhere.
Support my local? Yes - if it responds to our needs. Otherwise it deserves to fail. Unless they're registered charities!
Ella
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