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Think you have your answer Caz, lol

Lizx

My aunt and uncle had a pub in Chalfont for many years....until they split up
My cousin and husband ran one in Thame...until they split up but now she runs a bar in Spain
My sister was the first ever Sussex solo female to run a pub ...met her husband there...then they split up lol
Hard work and lots of pressure!

MY COUSIN RUNS ONE 24/.7 HARD WORK

Caz, all I can recommend is that if you are interested in doing this then sign on with an agency and go try doing reliefs in a couple of pubs and then decide if it is the life for you. I managed a pub for 3 years and it is hard work, enjoyable but hard. But it would be harder for you as you have young children and something always has to give in the pub trade.
Whatever you decide to do - Good Luck.

What would you like to know Caz?
I have run pubs both on my own and with OH.
I;'m third gen publican lol and apart from working on and off in them and then running them I was in the trade for about 30 years !!!!
Retired now but still have friends in the business.

Lin x

Oh cousin ran a pub with first wife, they broke up, married again, second marriage broke up.

He got the message, married again got himself a different job, they have been happily married for a few years now.

Mo

Caz

DON'T DO IT!!

Your life is not your own. Did it myself for over 8 year. Worst eight years of my life. OH and I leased one so business was our own. Left in 2002 but it has left a blot on our lives that I don't think we will ever get over. Kids suffer, mine were 11 months, 13 years old and 14 years old. The 11 month year old hardly saw her dad and myself together for over 5 years. Marriage pressure, not sure even now if we will ever get over it. Know loads of landlords and not one of them is in their first relationship, some are on their 3rd/4th. Plus loads of "fair weather" friends.

Plus points: apart from the banter over the bar there
arn't any!!

Libby

All i cansay is DON'T DO IT it takes over your life you spend the whole time arguing with your other half and what little time you have left is spent cleaning and tidying up after strangers.
We had a pub for 3 years it was he hardest job i have ever done and with a small child (8) is ######hard work, im not saying i dodnt enjoy it but god it does test yuour patience and your pocket , they are like bottomless pits,
My advice is think very carefully we got out just b4 the smoking ban can into force and as all our customers were smokers we would have been empty, also in this age of the credit crunch money is tight and i for one dont go out as much as we used to for the simple fact that what you pay for a glass of wine in a pub you could have bought a whole bottle.
Please think about it very carefully


julia xx

Caz, you'd be mad to do it hon. Wait until your kids are grown up and off your hands, all of them, and see what the trade is like then, but right now your kids need you around as much as possible and as unstressed as possible, and if you think money is tight now, then it would be much worse. Pubs closing down every day in Norfolk and I am sure it is the same everywhere. My cousin had a pub and a lot of my rellies working in the brewery business, it is a dying trade now.
Even if you got a pub with a garden you would never have time to do it, so concentrate on what you know best and get your house with a garden as soon as you can.
Lizx

Thanks Hayley, due to the advice i have recieved here i am rapidly reconsidering!!

Caz xxx

OMG.......I thought I would say this but Puss is right...lol

My sister did for 12 years.....and many the times we moved in for 2 weeks whilst she was on holiday...and yep its 24/7 you have plan your life and family round the business, with the no smoking bann this is a dying trade...killing off what the all day opening laws started...and its certainly isnt the life for young children...

My sister has been out of the trade for 3 and a half years now, it took her quiet a while to get their lives back on track they look 15 years younger, it nearly cost her, her health and marriage..

Come on then Caz, free advertising.

Get some good wine in for Muffy.

Get Eldrick & Sue whatever they like - they'll keep you in business.

Don't let Barrie in unless he pays up front.

;0)

Empires have been started like this I'll have you know. Can't wait.

Maria xxx

Deal maria lol!!!


The a team eh??


Caz xxx

Well let me know then Caz.

I can pull a really nice pint.

Can be up there most weekends. Will stay in the pub and the kids will be very happy. And I agree genteel people who know when they've had enough and go home earlyish.

How very good of you to agree to all this

Maria xx :o)

Caz, my grandson has run a pub, but when the no smoking came in, the customers dropped off and with the bad weather almost every pub without food is closing down every day folk would rather buy their booze and drink at home where they can smoke, worth checking out ...

Puss love I want honest opinions hun!!

I know it could be very hard work and yes the thought of all the punters pouring their hearts out does put me off! i see genteel people lol!!


Caz xxx

caz i did for a while for a friend it was a mad pub and i was constantly tired , specky helped when he came in from work, caz its such hard work and can wreck your marriage especially if one of yous are drinkers , you sudenly have millions of freinds who want to keep you up all night drowning their troubles , you have to be happy 24/7 you have no life of your own , then the cleaning up of the over enthusiastic drinker the ones who miss the toilet , but ...........lol unless you get a quiet one highly recomended so look on line at brewerys and pubs to let but i dont think unless your cooking there isnt a fortune to be had , sorry caz yoou did ask lol xxxxx

Love it broggy!!

Yep i bet our little 5 year old lasses would have all the punters sorted lol!!

Mad Mum it would be rent, no pennies for buying!

I agree eldrick, I love the cooking side and would like the socialising with guests bit, most pubs round me are rural, except in Barrow, which is a big town.

Hi Hazel, I know its a lot of work,

Caz xx

Caz, my daughter want to have a pub
but s.i.l. said no way
Hazelx

You really have to do a good line on food to keep a pub going now, unless you are in a city centre and catering to the binge drinking crowd.

I used to fancy running a country pub, but got talked out of it when I spoke to various landlords. It's very restrictive.