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Originally Posted by Benipete
I agree with you but the original thread blamed all brewery's for your own personal downfall.
What goes on between your "friend" and the brewery is nothing to do with me or indeed anyone else It is a contractual agreement.If he cannot reach an agreement then he must move on.
There are a lot of reasons for giving a good licensee the elbow but I'm not in the guessing game.
Sorry If I offended you I'm just a bit septic  |
I haven't suffered much at all, save a dip in the number of people who are currently turning up for games night which is neither here nor there for me.
However, the whole tone of the pub has changed and it has broken up that little community all for the sake of a bit of extra money in Marston's pot. Everyone was happy before and it was an absolute pleasure to walk through the door but now we're left with an experienced but disillusioned couple who have pulled out of the pub market and some disgruntled punters. Trade has taken a nosedive and takings must only be half of what they were before.
All pubs suffer a transitional shift between landlords but it was truly excellent before, packed to the rafters every night. Why mess with it by trying to screw more money out of a landlord when he's already tied to buying all his beer from you? The new tenancy agreement basically put him with the same money he was earning when he started but with four times the amount of work to do. I'd like to say that it's a unique situation that I'm blowing out of proportion but unfortunately I have witnessed it too many times now.
It isn't the government and it isn't (for the most part) the landlords that are doing the damage. Breweries, licencing companies, whatever you want to call them, it's their fault that the pubs are suffering and it will be Great Britain's loss in the end.
They can always turn round and blame taxes though, and people will believe them.