[lindsay ormerod]

Cashy, I agree that the smoking ban hasn't helped, I'm a non smoker myself and prefer not going home smelling like a 3 month old ashtray, but you have to play to the positives and that pub had location on it's side big time. Some funerals start at 11, open then for the people who want a drink to cope with it all or a warming cuppa for the ones who have travelled, the only real competition for the funeral market is the Peel Park, (lovely pub and great buffets)but can't cater for bigger funerals, as is not big enough. Contact with the funeral directors and recommendations, not rocket science. They have a good kitchen up there, facility to do a carvery and still not making any money?
I look at my local and look at what it's doing right, Sue at the Peel Park has funerals and christenings,birthdays etc,word of mouth counts for a lot but if somewhere delivers and (in this case) targets the right market I really don't know how they'd fail.