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I still don't see you by-passing the licencing laws with this.

You would want to check that out with customs and excise, at the business plan stage, or before.

I know you can sell beer with a restaurant licence, as long as it is with a meal. I don't know if it is a more expensive version of the wine licence, but I do know that a pricey pub licence is not necessary.

Surely only selling your beer with food is bound to put a serious dent in the amount of beer you'd be shifting.

I don't think I'd go back to a place regularly if I had to have food with the beer, no matter how good the beer was. What I like about places like the Porterhouse, Maguire's or the Bull & Castle is that they're good for a quiet afternoon pint, or for a casual dinner, or for a drinking session with a big group. (The music levels in the Bull & Castle mean that I've also been able to use it for business meetings.) I can't imagine the food-with-beer model having this level of flexibility.

"noby":2sujsqat wrote: I still don't see you by-passing the licencing laws with this.[/quote:2sujsqat]

I guess I need to do some legal consulting! This is a start

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Maybe this could be argued?!!
"to be intended for use or to have been used for experimental, quality control, scientific or
research purposes" page 1235 on link:

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No, it would lack the flexibility you get with a brew pub, but in order to get that flexibility you would need to shell out for a pub licence.

In order to sell beer with a restaurant licence, the customer would have to order food and pay for the beer at the same time as the food. You are also not allowed to have a bar area in the restaurant.

I don't suppose there would be anything stopping the customer from ordering more beer after their food and just adding it to the bill, which they will pay when they leave, as is normal in a restaurant.

How much beer you could actually shift like this, I don't know.

&amp;quot;sbillings&amp;quot;:3vwg06uh wrote: How much beer you could actually shift like this, I don't know.[/quote:3vwg06uh]
Perhaps we can undertake some scientific research to find out. I'd say the experiment would need to run for about, oh, 40 years?