Managed Pub and Restaurant operators experienced a strong growth in sales last month, according to new figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker.

The Government has abandoned key budget policies in light of the snap General Election – including plans to digitalise Tax Returns.

Recent figures from Barclaycard indicate a rise in Pub spending, following the news in March’s Budget of a cut in beer duty.  

There has been much lobbying from the small business sector to reduce business rates. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, stated that 600,000 small businesses currently benefit from small business rates relief.

Legislation to introduce Making Tax Digital (MTD) will be included in the Finance Bill 2017 and, despite many objections that it was too soon, the new system of quarterly reporting will commence in April 2018 for the self-employed and property landlords.

Recent research conducted by UCC Coffee UK & Ireland found that the secret to attracting customers to your Pub is quality coffee – with over half of pub customers claiming they would not revisit if coffee on the menu was of poor quality.