4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Sheila Dillon looks at new ideas for using food to save the British pub.
With 40 pubs a week closing down and food sales starting to equal those of drinks, the role of food in the future of the public house has never been more important. Sheila Dillon explores how one pub has come up with a groundbreaking solution to keeping business thriving.
Producer: Dave Battcock.
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0:40.0 | You walk to the end of the bar, turn left and here you are in a really wonderful looking delicatessen, butchers, and there's bread and there's fantastic looking pies. |
0:46.4 | Who makes the pies Oliver? |
0:47.8 | Pies are all made here by our chef Harry who does also makes all the breads, the cakes, and does all the chakutri, |
0:54.9 | so all of our air-dried hands, salamis, pistrami, black puddings, and anything else that takes is fancy. |
1:02.0 | That's one way of serving food in a pub. |
1:05.0 | Yeah, the people that work in our kitchens, we have kitchen managers, we have kitchen associates. |
1:10.0 | We don't talk about chefs because we wouldn't say that people working in our kitchen are chefs. |
1:14.6 | A lot of the food is obviously bought in or it might be for example some of the Indian meals and we serve I think it's some like 3 4 million |
1:21.8 | curries a year in our pubs. |
1:23.4 | A lot of those meals are produced externally by a specialist company and |
1:26.8 | produced to the highest quality and we couldn't do it and we wouldn't have the |
1:29.8 | time to it. We'd rather use a specialist company. |
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