Below cost selling fuels home consumption

New Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures reveal Irish people are spending more on alcohol for consumption at home. The CSO Household Budget Survey reveals the proportion of total alcohol expenditure spent on drinks consumed at home increased from over 41% in 2009-2010 to over 51% in 2015-2016. The 10% increase in home consumption can be attributed […]

Insurance issues dominate VFI regional workshop

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The VFI recently concluded a series of regional workshops focused on the issue of insurance and reducing business costs. As our CEO Padraig Cribben said at the Cavan workshop, insurance is the biggest issue facing members today. The difficulties facing VFI members securing insurance cover are well documented. As Michael Sheehy, Managing Director of Alert […]

Pub sector has new ministers

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has today announced his new line-up of junior ministers. The  positions with most relevance to the hospitality sector – Tourism and Sport at the Department of Transport Tourism and Sport along with Drugs Strategy and Health Promotion at the Department of Health – have been filled respectively by Brendan Griffith from Kerry […]

VFI pubs to host Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints play

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The VFI is partnering with the Abbey Theatre in staging Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints play in over a dozen VFI member pubs across Ireland. Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin, Two Pints will head on the road to pubs across the country in July. It will premiere in The Foxhound Inn in Kilbarrack on 11 July, before […]

Pubs account for 20% of foodservices market

Consumers spent close to €1bn on food in Irish pubs in 2016. According to research conducted by Bord Bia the total all-Ireland spend in pubs was €1.34bn, of which €954m was generated in the Republic. The overall foodservices market (all food consumed outside the home) was valued at €7.5bn in 2016 and is projected to […]