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Greaves' Rules is a set of etiquette guidelines common in the UK for buying rounds of drinks in English public houses.The rules were first defined by William Greaves (April 1938 - November 2017), a London journalist of the defunct Today newspaper as a Saturday morning essay in the paper, based upon his long experience of pubs and rounds.
The code regulates the relationship between pub tenants and the large pub owning companies, known as pubcos. A pubco rents out a pub to a tenant and then sells them the pubs supplies, known as tied products. This makes the pub what is called a Tied house. The tenant is obligated to buy these supplies from the pubco.
Licensing notice displayed above the entrance of a pub (no longer required since November 2005) The alcohol licensing laws of the United Kingdom regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol, with separate legislation for England and Wales, [a] Northern Ireland and Scotland being passed, as necessary, by the UK Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament respectively.
The industry responded by spinning off purely pub-owning companies ("pubcos"), such as Punch Taverns, Enterprise Inns, and Admiral Taverns, from the older brewing-and-owning companies (notably Allied Lyons, Bass, and Scottish & Newcastle). Other companies were established such as Pub Estates Group to purchase
At the Sheephaven Bay pub in London, tucked just behind Camden High Street, Guinness accounts for more than 50% of weekly draft beer sales. Owner Pat Logue told CNN that this year he’s already ...
Scoring is based on amassing the largest number of dice with the same digits. Each hand must include at least a single "Ace", or one, in order to be a valid hand; Aces act as "wilds", and can be paired with any other digit. The strength of a player's hand depends first on the number of digits and then value of those digits.
The Good Pub Guide is a long-running critical publication which lists and rates public houses (pubs) in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] Published by Random House 's Ebury Publishing subsidiary since 1982, it is released annually in book form and, since 2009, online [ 1 ] until 2021.
In 2008 The Publican ran Proud of Pubs week, in which people were encouraged to celebrate the positive impact the pub trade has in the UK. It has also campaigned against alcohol pricing in supermarkets and ran training sessions on the smoking ban, and regularly spoke for the industry in the national media.