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Headline : The Bear at Home Inn - A lesson on how to run a pub - or how not to...
2nd Headline : New Landlord aims to make it a success this time round
Distribution Source : Free Press Releases
Date : Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Author: Paul jackson
Oxfordshire, England -- (Originally on ArriveNet - Jan 11, 2006) -- The Bear: Necessities
The 17th century ‘Bear at Home Inn’, nestled in the calm, picturesque Oxfordshire village of North Moreton, halfway between Didcot and Wallingford, provides an object lesson in how to run a successful village pub – and how not to.
The pub has had six landlords in fifteen years: not too bad, you might think, except that four of them arrived - and left - in the last five years. What went wrong? And why is the pub, at last, working so successfully now?
Many village pubs face the same alchemic challenge: the beer, the ambience, the food, the prices, the publican – all elements have to be ‘right’, in order to turn into gold. One landlord tried to convert the pub into an expensive, upmarket, non-smoking fish restaurant; another tried to run it single-handed, including doing all the cooking and serving, whilst simultaneously running a village shop some 45 miles away. Needless to say, both failed.
What’s changed? The first is the new landlords have lived in the village for 14 years. Tim & Alison Haworth with their three children now run the pub as a family concern, having renamed it ‘The Bear at Home Inn’. They are well-liked, and well-connected, in the community.
The second is that the food is now expertly prepared from entirely fresh local ingredients by a professional chef. Stuart MacKay has, for the last five seasons, been the Head Chef for the BAR Honda Formula One team. The food he creates is of the very highest standard – and priced to entice.
Finally, when Tim and his family went on a dream holiday to New Zealand over Christmas 2005, booked prior to their pub tenure, the village community stepped in and ran it for them in their absence. This brought the villagers back into the pub and reintroduced them to one of the loveliest old pubs in the county.
Well-kept local beers complete the picture: all the elements are in place, and the buzz is back. Here’s to the English village pub. Cheers!
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