Trade secrets

Cant afford to have to many gas bottles in your cellar, then just keep one spare and make it 50/50 mix it will run either mixture for a while; at least the day anyway.

If you sell your spirits in 35ml as the single then you cannot offer 50ml as a double – it is against the law twice 35 is not 50.  And that goes for port, martini and bailey’s.

Mix three or more liquids in a cocktail and you do not have to give a full 25 or 35ml measure of each, mix just two and you do. Water or and including ice is not one of the acceptable liquids

Cellar services are responsible for you T light bulbs and all light bulbs on your dispense equipment so if they blow call them out - saves you money.

Line cleaner looses its effectiveness after just 8 hours.

A paying guest or customer cannot become a non paying guest or customer after hours – so not taking money if having an after hours drink is no defence if the people you are having the drink with were customers that night and before “time”.

Rather than sell RTD buy one get one free try selling two for £3, that way if you normally charge £2.50 - £2.60 you actually make more money and the punters still happy.

Advertise on your toilet walls it is your best space – in the gents above the urinals; you have a captive audience !

Got a problem with drug users then spray all flat surfaces in the toilets with WD40 – the coke dissolves in the oil – don’t worry they wont complain to you.

Having complaints about noise? Then put you speakers on the outside walls pointing inwards – sound is directional and this will help contain the noise for you.  You will also have some idea of how much noise you are making.

A little known trade secrete is that anyone can now sell alcohol under a Temporary Event Notice or TEN, this is the theory anyway. Unlicensed citizens be granted up to 5 TENs' a year were as a personal licence holder may be granted up to 50.

There are many restrictions and conditions and all have to be applied for and don't forget if the event is going to be held on the boarders of two or more counties then all the relevant councils must be applied too and police forces notified. This may seem an unlikely occurrence but with many cities being designated as counties in their own right and through expansion over the years this problem is more likely to occur in urban areas.

Another area from which a restriction can arise is the premises at which the event is to be held, that may have a restriction on the number of TENs it may have granted in a year.

Do you know how old you have to be to sell alcohol?

The answer is just 16, even in a pub, though this may be a play on words for the law allows a person age from 16 - 18 to serves the alcohol the sale must be accepted by the DPS or personal license holder.

It is therefore my belief that you must be 18 above to sell alcohol but you may serve it at 16 and above provided that someone authorised too accept the sale.