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Twice in my recent past I’ve stood at a bar and started to seriously wonder if I’d become invisible. It’s not that the bar was particularly busy or short-staffed, merely that (try as I did) I couldn’t manage to get the staff’s attention as they brushed past, left & right, without any indication that they […]

  Otherwise, January CSI figures signalled a subdued start to 2020 for Irish household spending. Consumer spend was broadly flat in January following a marginal expansion at the end of 2019. Overall, household expenditure fell by just 0.1%, after rising 0.9% in the previous month. When split by channel, data for the opening month of […]

For several weeks now Diageo Ireland has been running a nationwide series of seminars for bar staff on the ‘Business of Bars’ and other topics aimed at improving profits in the licensed trade. Recently, it was the turn of some Dublin-based bar staff to hear what Diageo’s Beer Consultant Padraig McLaughlin had to say about […]