Essential Cuisine - FREE drizzle bottles and recipe leaflet available, plus 20% off first order. Livebookings - SPECIAL OFFER FOR SUGARVINE CLIENTS – a FREE 6 month trial of Livebookings Console waiving the £20 a month admin charge. To find out more call Livebookings on 020 7934 9275 quoting ‘Sugarvine’ and see how your restaurant can benefit. Sugarvine Photography - No travel charge for photo shoots anywhere in the UK Sugarvine Text Alert - Text your customers details of events and special offers for just 8p per text Click here  for all current deals.

Shop Book of the Month How to run a successful pub Author Mark S. Elliott has spent 25 years working in various management roles within the tenanted and leased divisions of the UK's largest breweries and pub companies. His extensive knowledge and day-to-day involvement with pubs and publicans make him well qualified to know what is required to run a successful pub. He shares his knowledge and many 'insider tips' with you in this book. This is aimed at people coming into the industry for the first time. But because it so comprehensively ticks off just about everything debutants need to know, existing licensees might also find it useful. It could prove invaluable for filling in those gaps in knowledge or perhaps finding out where they might be going wrong if things aren’t quite working out as well as they planned. For more books ...click here

New Suppliers/Services

J Atkinson & Co -Coffee & Tea Merchants - Lancaster-based coffee & tea merchants and distributor for San Remo espresso machines
Fairfield Farm -Butchers - Award-winning butcher, specialising in pork products
Coupe Bradbury -Solicitors - Specialist solicitors who can advise on a wide range of legal issues within the catering industry
Sapori -Desserts - North West’s premier supplier to the trade of desserts, pastries and chocolate
Febland Group -Furniture - Huge range of furniture, ceramics, lighting and interior décor from around the world
Myriad Contracts -Builders - Leading building fit-out and refurbishment contractors, specialising in fast track works on a national basis
Paul Heaney Restaurant Consultancy -Consultants - Menu and food quality, premises styling and aesthetics.
R & A Catering Equipment -Catering Equipment - Catering Equipment - Cooking equipment, ambient base units, accessories, dish- and glass-washers, fridges and freezers
Rowlands & Hames -Insurance - Specialist insurance broker to the catering industry
Jones Harris -Accountants - Fylde-based chartered accountants experienced in dealing with the catering and hospitality trade
UKinsuranceNET -Insurance - Specialist insurance for the catering & hospitality trades
Choice Meats -Butchers - Blackpool-based catering and retail butcher delivering throughout the Northwest
Emporium -Furniture - Furniture retailer with a specialist contract work department
Fast Lane Beverages -Coffee - Supplier of 'Segafredo' coffee and a range of coffee machines
Northern Restaurant & Bar -Trade Shows - The only exhibition dedicated to the thriving Northern restaurant, bar, pub and hotel industry
Essential Cuisine -Stocks and Sauces - High-quality stocks and bouillons, classic stock and sauce mixes, glaces and Premier Jus
Onecall Hospitality -Consultants - Operational management support and guidance to owners and tenants of hotels, pubs and restaurants who find themselves experiencing difficulties
T. Wright -Fine Wine & Spirit Merchant - Extensive selection of wines from all over the world supplied to the retail and trade customers
Rowlands & Hames -Insurance - Specialist insurance brokers to the catering industry
ABC Direct -Bar & Catering Equipment - A wide range of bar, beer and catering equipment as well as refrigeration units supplied direct across the UK
Chefwise -Stocks and Sauces - 'Chef quality' dehydrated preparations to the food service industry including stocks, sauces, bouillons, salads, seasonings, soups and desserts.
R & A Cutlery & Crockery Direct -Cutlery - Cutlery from a wide range of suppliers delivered within 7 days
C & G Neve -Fish - All types of fish and shellfish, both wild and farmed, are sourced and supplied
ACEntertainments -Music and Entertainment - Corporate casino and race nights, close-up magic, children's puppet and magic shows and balloon modelling for all types of functions and events nationwide.
Fylde Coasters - Napkins - Personalised napkins with your design and logo.
Choc-Elite Fountains -Chocolate Fountains - Make your special event a memorable one by hiring a chocolate fondue fountain
Livebookings -Online Booking - The UK's most experienced provider of real-time Internet reservations technology
Hi-Life Diners Club -Marketing - Frequent diners card covering the North West and Yorkshire.
Spirit Marketing -Marketing - Promotional and marketing advice to all businesses in the hospitality industry.
Sugarvine Photography -Photography - Restaurant photography for interiors, exteriors and detail shots. Superb results, with copyright.
R Duckworth Ltd -Bar and Pub Sundries - A one-stop shop for all bar and pub sundries, including snack and tobacco vending machines.
Duckworth -Canopies and Awnings - Designing and fitting static, manual or electrically operated canopies and awnings.
Sugarvine Text Alert -Marketing - Fill up your restaurant or bar by marketing direct to your customers' mobile phones -- the most effective way to advertise.
Coronation Confectionery -Confectionery - Sweets and chocolates personalised with your name or logo
Poppy Flower Studio - Florist - Flowers and floral displays for Lancashire restaurants.
Sugarvine.com - Marketing - Put your restaurant in front of thousands of Lancashire diners.
Sugarvine Design - Website Design - Need a website for your restaurant or business? Try the specialist designers for the catering industry.

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Online Booking   People want things done as quickly as possible with the minimum of fuss, and online booking of restaurant tables is becoming more and more popular. What could be easier than selecting a restaurant online, entering a time, choosing the number of people dining, then pressing go. If your restaurant is not set up for online booking, you could be missing out on some important business. You don't even have to be online yourself to recieve bookings made through the internet as reservations can be faxed through to you.   To find out how simple it is to set your restaurant up for online reservations, click here.