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The Licensee a site for all those in the licensed trade
Welcome to The Licensee a website dedicated to the licensed trade and all those involve in the hospitality trade. The site is designed to offer help and support to all the landlords, landladies, bar managers, pub owners and club stewards in the land.
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Within this site we aim to offer help and support to the licensed trade on a range of issues from the licensing act 2003 to catering equipment for sale. Our forum is a place where other licensee's can ask for or offer help to others in the trade or indeed any one who has any connection with the licensed trade may ask a question.
We do offer for sale some stocktaking software, with our most powerful stocktaking program costing just £19.99 and our cheapest stocktaking software at just £9.99. We also sell other pub management software please visit our software page to find a whole host of helpful programs for the licensed trade.
We have a whole page dedicated to the stopping of bar fiddles we have list the common ones that we know of if you have one that is no listed please help other bar managers by telling us the details of it and we will post it on the site for all to see. Bar staff are prone to being blamed for a lot of stock shrinkage and we must balance the side by saying that a lot of shrinkage is down to the pub management.
The trade secrets page is a chance for you to brag about you knowledge and share it with the licensed trade. So if you have any tips or advice or solutions to common problems please let us know.
From time to time we come across helpful products for the licensed trade and the catering trade as a whole we will list these products on this page for you it may well be worth a look.
If you are looking for employment in the hospitality trade then please visit our hospitality jobs page and like wise if you are a pub or bar owner looking for staff or indeed are looking for bar managers etc then please let us know and we will post the position on this page for you. Like wise if your are looking for work again lets us know and we will publish your details on this page. From this you should be able to work out that the page is for both employers and employees so please take a look.
Pub management this page give advice to those thinking of running a pub or bar and list any positions that we are told off and has a few links to top pub chain sites, and details of personal licenses etc.
Pub for sale this includes all licensed trade based business and you can advertise your hospitality business here for just £20, your own email address can be put on the advert and there is no need to supply a photo of your bar if you don't want to.
Catering equipment for sale or hire want to sell it let us know and we will list it from just £1 an advert, we can even process the payment for you please contact us for details of what you have for sale or indeed anything you want to buy, lets get trading.
Licensed trade news, here we will post both local and national news items to do with the licensed trade, I wonder how missed out on the VAT refund on AWP machine takings because the government never really wanted the trade to know that it was ordered to repay some of the VAT collected on these takings. Watch this space and if you have any news items please lets us know and we will post them.
Licensee's notes are our points of interest and observations.
Points to ponder is a page dedicated to funny things that have happened in the pub trade.
Real ale is my answer to camera and has details of real ales and local brews on it plus advice on keeping real ale and other products.
Pricing tips will give you a guide on how to set your prices and what to avoid when doing so. Plus tips on how to increase profit and trade.
Pub watch is for those that have joined this scheme it looks at the advantages and downfalls of joining a scheme and as an ex-pub watch chairman I know a little thing about the way the schemes work.
Pubs to visit, those in the pub trade never seem to visit many other pubs in their area apart from they are on holiday, things appears strange to me for the best way to keep your pub or bar full is to employ the latest fads, trends or products, by never going out checking the local bars and seeing what other landlords are up to then you will slip behind.
Do not think that you are doing alright and therefore nothing is going to happen to affect your trade believe me the downfall of many a pub could have been spotted long before it happened if the licensee was on the ball and out and about checking up. meeting other member of the licensed trade is a great way of building up your bars business, for as you meet the other pub managers you also meet their customers and if they like you they might just come and check you out. So if you have your own pub or bar and would to place it on this page please contact us and we will be happy to post your details, remember this site is open to the general public as well as the hospitality trade.
Links page please visit this page it has loads of links to very helpful sites for those in the licensed trade with help with finance, cleaning, event holding, banking, staffing, website building lawyers you name it we've got it on this page. And then there's the more links tends to be slightly off topic links but again might still be of interest to you.